Technology Today, How To Use It Correctly!

A Vision of Students Today, by Micheal Wesch, makes everyone think hard about whether the world is changing in a positive way or in a negative way. In this video, the students from Kansas University all hold up signs telling proven statistics about our technology-how many hours a day they are on their cell phones, how many Facebook pages they read each year (approximately), etc. Some of these statistics make us think how technology can either help our education with an impact, or the other way around. For example, a girl tells us that she brings her laptop to class everyday, but she spends the whole class on the internet. This shows us that the technology used for education is being abused. Some of the students are using it for different things that do not help them in an academic way at all. An example of how it impacts our learning is that we get information from not only the teacher, but we also get it from professionals through the Internet, that we probably would not have gotten the chance to understand if the technology was not around because we would not have gotten to observe what the professional’s input/understanding of the subject was. My reflection of this video is that I feel very privileged that I live in the years that I can go anywhere and look up pretty much any information that I need within a click of a button. I also feel that we should take advantage of the technology available to us while we have it. I loved this video because I feel that it was very creative, modern, and it grabbed our attention. This connects to what we are doing in class because we relate, use, and talk a lot about technology. The video relates to the world around us because these days, in these times, we use so much technology and we should learn how to use and what to do with it correctly. This video makes me think How did we come up with all this? How can we make the world a better, communicative society?