“A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch exposes the reality of the public classroom setting from a student's point of view.
“A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch depicts the reality of public education methods in teaching in a way that is no longer relevant to an increasingly modern society and the detrimental toll that takes on the edification of the future generation. Public schools today are set in a rigid system outlined by view that is simply outdated and useless to a student of the 21st century. Technology is becoming more and more adapted to learning but is not being integrated into the school setting. Students own expensive computers, phones, and ipods but still learn in the same way: from a chalkboard that cannot provide the level of connection and possibilities for learning that a computer can through links, chat pages, references, and pictures. Michael Wesch’s “The Machine is Using Us” by Michael Wesch demonstrates the infinite possibilities that technology can provide people with because of the amazing technology people are. Another fault pictured is the fact that most of the content taught are skills and information that a student will never have to use again beyond their final. As explained in “Did You Know?” by Karl Fisch, we are currently preparing kids for jobs that do not yet exist, using technologies that has not been invented, in order to solve problems that we do not even know are problems yet. To sum up, Teaching needs to be modernized to accommodate the next generation of thinkers and prepare them for a life in which people must strive to keep up with technology, not the other way around.
