KSU blog

In the video make by Michael Wesch's class from KSU it really depicts the outdated forms of teaching. In the beginning it stated out with the boredom induced writings and carvings on the walls and back of seats in a lecture style classroom, then finally zooms in on the blackboard where low and behold something was actually written, but had been impossible to see. the next thing you see is how the students utilize technology to get the point across the way they do things. By holding up pieces of paper with fragmented statements and remaining silent they might as well be shouting the fact that this isn't the right way to teach anymore. One girl said that only 18% of her teaches knew her name, they buy expensive textbooks (some 100 dollars a pop) that they never even open in some cases; how the tests they are given really have no solid value on their real everyday lives (even after graduation). Forced reading and long lectures tend to continually be drown out in the era of Facebook, twitter, and emails. The quote from 1967 chastising the, even then, outdated classroom structure really stuck with me. If they had noticed these problems then and look how far we've come today, why aren't we doing something about it? The silence in the video that i mentioned earlier is a prime example of how students are not voicing their objections to the regulated curriculums and inadequate teaching process, but a picture is worth a thousand words. We need to wake up and keep up in order to make the learning process something that the newer "tech gen." can understand and thrive on.