Future Lives in the Hands of a College Professer

In the You Tube video, A Vision of Students Today shows that college student’s sign up for classes that are in huge lecture rooms, and pay for books they hardly ever use and take their laptops then never use them for classroom purposes. Mr. Wesch made this video to prove that technology can be helpful but it’s not being used for what college professors want it to be used. The teachers might say they care, but having a lot of kids to teach they have no time to get to know each one of them and some don’t even know their name. In each class there is probably on average 115, but in some there are possibly a lot more.


A vision I have for students today would have to include every student’s attention meaning laptops are used when the teacher knows what they are doing and on task. It would also include the books bought in the lessons so the student’s money goes to something useful. And overall money is well spent, meaning classes should be less expensive; because everyone deserves a good education. Most of all a good lesson should be useful to people; for example the students can use the information in the outside world and apply it to their lives.

This video definitely connects to our class because the teachers can kind of get the gist of what to teach us to be successful in life and the world. Freshman year doesn’t seem that big of a deal as far as education but if we start practicing things that can be useful to us in college like reading strategies it can really help us in the long run. The video is connected to the real world extremely because it can help lower the chances of a student dropping out and possibly help the economy. It can help the economy because if college is cheaper than the debt wouldn’t be that extreme so students could spend money on other things like houses and help the United States gets out of recession.

A Vision for Students Today made me think extremely about technology and how people think it can help us so much but students are distracted by it and it affects their learning in a good and bad way. This makes me think if it’s better not to have technology and not doing whatever is more convenient. Like big lecture rooms and have everyone buy a book. Maybe it’s better if we go by the phrase “Less is more” and see where that takes us.