Comments on: Visions of Students Today? I Hope Not http://www.john-zhu.com/blog/2009/08/28/visions-of-students-today-i-hope-not/ Useful Resources for Some, Useless Rants for Others Thu, 22 Dec 2011 18:18:04 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: gypsy_cat http://www.john-zhu.com/blog/2009/08/28/visions-of-students-today-i-hope-not/comment-page-1/#comment-5185 gypsy_cat Fri, 28 Aug 2009 22:37:24 +0000 http://www.john-zhu.com/blog/?p=2061#comment-5185 Amen. The dominant message I got out of this video was "Entertain us!" They whine about having big, lecture-based classes with readings that are not "relevant" to their lives, and which are so boring that they either Facebook through class or don't show up at all. And faculty, presumably, are supposed to fix this by putting on a song and dance every class, integrating video and Internet to recapture the attention of the terminally ADD-afflicted, and make the readings all about them. How are these kids supposed to go out and solve "war," "racial tension," and all the other problems they complain about if they can't be bothered to pick up a book, stay awake during an hour-long lecture, or fill out a scantron sheet? Grrrr, and they need to get off my lawn while they're at it . . . And I agree that the video doesn't represent the smart, motivated kids who take responsibility for their own learning. It paints all students as brain-dead, technology-addicted slackers. (But, then again, they're the ones who made the video . . .) Amen. The dominant message I got out of this video was "Entertain us!" They whine about having big, lecture-based classes with readings that are not "relevant" to their lives, and which are so boring that they either Facebook through class or don't show up at all. And faculty, presumably, are supposed to fix this by putting on a song and dance every class, integrating video and Internet to recapture the attention of the terminally ADD-afflicted, and make the readings all about them. How are these kids supposed to go out and solve "war," "racial tension," and all the other problems they complain about if they can't be bothered to pick up a book, stay awake during an hour-long lecture, or fill out a scantron sheet?

Grrrr, and they need to get off my lawn while they're at it . . .

And I agree that the video doesn't represent the smart, motivated kids who take responsibility for their own learning. It paints all students as brain-dead, technology-addicted slackers. (But, then again, they're the ones who made the video . . .)

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