A Vision of Students Today

The film “A Vision of Students Today” made by the Anthropology professor, Michael Wesch, and his students is stimulating yet disturbing and depressing. Throughout the film, the students are silent as they express themselves with notes on the paper or laptop screens. The silence of the students implies the increasing frustrations and the lack of energy, interaction, and enthusiasm among the young people. The film addresses issues such as the excessive amount of time young people spend on technologies such as computers, televisions or cell-phone. Moreover, the article points out the fact that internet material has become the major source of readings for most students. The role of books in our education system has changed drastically. The messages this article tries to convey pose a series of alarming and valid concerns. With over dependency on the technologies, we should watch out the negative habits we are developing in life. The convenience of technology has affected our education system negatively because there are too many choices for learning yet too little reinforcement on validating what we learn.