Student Life and "The System"

This video is really good!

The Cultural Anthropology class of Michael L. Wesch at Kansas State University has created a YouTube film which illustrates the life of today's student. Called A Vision of Students Today, the short film (about 4.5 min.) summarizes "some of the most important characteristics of students today - how they learn, what they need to learn, their goals, hopes, dreams, what their lives will be like, and what kinds of changes they will experience in their lifetime." The video was created by Prof. Wesch in collaboration with 200 students at Kansas State University.

Among the startling survey results the students share? On average, they complete only 49% of the readings assigned to them; only 28% of their assignments seem relevant to their lives; they'll read 8 books this year, 2,300 webpages, and 1,281 Facebook entries; they'll write 42 pages for class in a semester, but over 500 pages of email.