Michael Wesch’s video: Vision of Students and Britannica Blog…..I have no idea how I feel about these videos. As technology is not the problem at all in this situation of students getting on face book or listing to their music, if they are not doing that they are looking out the window. Or this “getting by” assumption of what students want to do. I feel that one of the writings on the wall in the video “it separates us from the outside world” is so true. Many college students come right to college and are supposed to know what they want to do for rest of their lives. So, they enter these courses that go over the same material year after year and the information does not pertain to anything in the outside world. Ending up spending thousands of dollars and coming out with a piece of paper. I know that some individuals are going say that college students just aren’t trying but they haven’t even had the opportunity in life to find out who they are and what they want. Until “students” understand who they are it’s going to be as the video said “experts to students”, with nothing in between.
Knowledge is not obtained in Wikis but designed in the tacklement with the positions of others participants during an interactive and collaborative writing process (Kohl, p.177). As “wiki” has grown so much since 2003 and the words of other individuals has spread all over the world, enlightening different thoughts and feelings have been shared. It’s allowing everyone to interact and providing their knowledge on whatever is being discussed. “The experiences of the participants as well as the writing processes form the basis of knowledge” (Kohl, p.177). Having the opportunity to learn from others experience or knowledge over something and being able to get all different kinds of perspective, gives individual’s knowledge.
In the article on Pencils and Pixels I found it very intriguing that Plato one of the world’s greatest thinkers spoke strongly against writing, Plato thought it would weaken our memories (p. 18). As pencils were being developed in the 1560’s changing the way the world communicates was the same reaction that individuals have with computers. As I thought about it over hundreds of year’s human nature still hasn’t changed. As Plato was against individuals writing, many elderly individual s are against computers because the sense of personal communication is not found and they just do not trust them.
Do you think the attitude of some students today would change if say they couldn't go to college until they were 21? I wonder if those students that get pressure from their parents to go to college right after highschool would have a chance to work for a while - find themselves if you will - and have a better idea of what a college degree might mean to them. I understand what it is like to not "know who you are or what you want to do" thus the reason I am finishing my bachelor's at age 38. I still don't know what I want or fully who I am, but I do know that there is wisdom in not knowing. I realize that sounds counterintuitive, but not knowing really means that we are open to whatever new experience or idea that may come around instead of being so certain that we know what is "right" we block out opportunity. I would rather be uncertain about my future than have it all planned out and being utterly disappointed when the plan falls apart.
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