Blog post # 13

For this assignment I watched the video, A vision of Students Today. This video was made with the help of 200 Kansas State University students expressing how they learn, their dreams and goals, and what they think their life will be like among many other things. A google document was made that asked what is was like to be a student today. 200 college students were invited to answer that question in the google document and 367 edits were made to that one document. The video then changes to a classroom scene were students hold up a piece of paper expressing how it is like to be a student today. Some of these include how much they might spend a day doing a particular task such as eating, sleeping, watching TV, and doing homework. It all added up to be 26.5 hours a day. Someone else said that they complete 47% of the reading that they are assigned in class but only 26% is actually relevant to their life. One thing that a student said that I can relate to is buying 100 dollar books and not even opening them.

I really enjoyed this video. This video was published in 2007 and I find it interesting that, even with technology advancing at the rate it is, how it felt to be a student then, is the same as today. Teachers require you to buy 100 dollar textbooks that you only use once or twice. There is not enough time in one day to do everything that you wish to do, some things have to cut out. Students pay, or maybe not, for classes that they do not even attend. Students in the video might be $20,000 in debt by the time they graduate. I will be over almost $30,000 in debt. At the end of the video it's stated that technology alone can save students. Though, if you compare then to now, it's almost the same, maybe even worse. How has technology helped out in that aspect of a college students life? Yes classes can be online to save time, but we're still paying hundreds of dollars on textbooks we don't need. So much time is wasted on the computer now than it was in 2007. I think technology has made it easier to for college students to learn. In any other aspect covered in the video, I don't think technology has helped. This is only my personal opinion, of course.