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Many Americans today believe that technology in the schools has become the greatest thing ever for the learning system in the 21st contrary. Student’s today struggle to keep up with the ever changing technology and multimedia. In the video “A Vision of Students Today,” producer Professor Michael Wesch and his students of anthropology at KSU. They introduce the idea of technology, combined with the school system and what it is like for a student today. To be $20,000 in debt by the time they graduate, with only reading 8 books but more then 2300 web pages and 500 pages of emails. However the distraction of technology has helped create this problem. Students in the video admitted to using computers for face book, chatting and other forms of media in the classroom. The students also state that “only complete 49% of class work” and how such a low percentage of what learned is relevant to life.

In the article “What would Socrates Say?” by Peter W. Cookson he makes some of the same claims as well. “Some advocates believe we can Google, blog, Skype, and Twitter our way to enlightenment. They assume that disorganized, radically democratized data lead to useful information and thus to real knowledge through some process of collective, randomized constant connectivity.” Cookson is saying that some believe that we learn best through this new wave of data and multimedia entertainment, but most evidence that he provides says otherwise. He advocates for a radical revision of the education system. Stating that “A child born today could live into the 22nd century. It’s difficult to imagine all that could transpire between now and then. One thing does seem apparent: Technical fixes to our outdated educational system are likely to be inadequate. We need to adapt to a rapidly changing world.” This is not to say that Cookson believes that there should be no technology, just updated with the students.

From both of these articles I believe that it shows that it’s not technology that needs to be disappearing, just the outdated way of learning with it. When students obviously need the technology for learning, we then need to find the new approach to learning hand in hand with it.