Thursday, October 8, 2009

Impotance of Collage

I saw the YouTube video, A Vision of Students Today by Michael Wesch. Dr. Michael Wesch is a cultural anthropologist at Kansas State University. His work in digital ethnography has gained national and attention. The most visible project is his work on YouTube and a video entitled “A Vision of Students Today” that was a project with 200 of his students. According to YouTube, this video has been viewed close to 3 million times. It has made Dr. Wesch’s work a lot more popular. In fact, he was recently named the US Professor of the Year for Doctoral Universities by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for the Support and Advancement of Education. The video has a lot of facts about collage. It shows important characteristics of students today and how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams and what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime. One thing really can to mind when the video said most kids well be at least 20,000 dollars in debt. I don’t know how they get out of that. In the end it pays off though. I also think it weird that most of them don’t use their textbook. I don’t know why they just don’t do everything with technology. I think a lot of kids mind set when they get to collage is to party and have fun. But in reality if they don’t come to class like the video says collage won’t be worth it. Your parents spend so much money and for you to blow it all off on having fun is stupid.