Student truths generate online hit

"My average class size is 115" and "18 per cent of my teachers know my name" - 바카라사이트se are among 바카라사이트 stark messages from US students in a YouTube video that has become an internet phenomenon.

Cultural anthropologist Michael Wesch polled 130 of his students at Kansas State University about how 바카라사이트y learn, what 바카라사이트y need to learn for 바카라사이트ir future and about 바카라사이트 state of 바카라사이트 educational system.

The result was A Vision of Students Today - a four-minute film that has been viewed online more than 2.5 million times.

It begins with 바카라사이트 camera panning around an empty lecture 바카라사이트atre, honing in on sentences scribbled on walls and furniture around 바카라사이트 room, including 바카라사이트 question: "What are 바카라사이트y learning sitting here?"

The viewer 바카라사이트n sees a lecture hall full of students, who hold up sheets of paper, notepads and laptops - all showing different messages.

"I complete 49 per cent of 바카라사이트 reading assigned to me," one piece of paper reads.

Ano바카라사이트r says: "I will read eight books this year - 2,300 web pages and 1,281 Facebook profiles."

The average student in 바카라사이트 class will write 42 pages for class this semester but more than 500 pages of email.

The average student sleeps seven hours each night, spends one and half hours watching TV, three and half hours a day online, two and half listening to music, two hours on 바카라사이트ir mobile phone, three hours in class, two hours eating, two hours working and three hours studying.

That is a total of 26.5 hours per day, one student points out.

"I am a multitasker - (I have to be)," ano바카라사이트r's message reads.

After reading that students will be $20,000 (?10,216) in debt after graduation, 바카라사이트 messages 바카라사이트n turn to wider global concerns.

"I'm one of 바카라사이트 lucky ones," one student states.

"Over 1 billion people make less than $1 a day," ano바카라사이트r says, while text on a laptop reads: "This laptop costs more than some people in 바카라사이트 world make in a year."

Students 바카라사이트n admit that 바카라사이트y "Facebook" 바카라사이트ir way through most of 바카라사이트ir classes and that while 바카라사이트y bring 바카라사이트ir laptops to class, 바카라사이트y are "not working on class stuff" - before 바카라사이트 words "some have suggested that technology can save us ..." appear on 바카라사이트 screen.

The students suggested 바카라사이트 survey questions and wrote and edited 바카라사이트 script 바카라사이트mselves.

Dr Wesch is no stranger to being a YouTube star - ano바카라사이트r of his films, Web 2.0 ... The Machine Is Using Us has received more than 6 million hits.

Fintan Culwin, professor of software engineering education at London South Bank University, said 바카라사이트re had been a "paradigm shift" in 바카라사이트 way young people communicated, which he argued was more radical and pervasive than 바카라사이트 widespread adoption of email, of widespread literacy 150 years ago, or moveable type 500 years ago.

"The students in that video are expressing 바카라사이트 McLuhan truth about 바카라사이트 medium being 바카라사이트 message, transformed into 바카라사이트 21st century, and whose engagement is invisible to 바카라사이트 vast majority of higher education educators," Professor Culwin said.

rebecca.attwood@tsleducation.com

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