A Vision of Students Today
In my Technology Applications class we had to watch the video of A Vision of Students Today. It surprised me at how true this video really is. When the kids were holding up their signs, one of the ones that stood out to me was the sign that said "I buy hundred dollar textbooks that I never open". This is so unbelievably true. I had a ton of books last semester and the only ones that I actually opened and read were the ones for my Intro to the Novel class. I would occasionally peek in Bio or Psych, but definitely not hundreds of dollars worth of reading. Then at the end of the year when you try to sell your books back you basically get nothing. They wouldn't even accept my $200 Biology book because there was a new edition out. There went $200 right down the drain.What would be really nice would be if the teachers had books online. Right now my friend is doing her Spanish homework through her online book. After watching her for a while, I realized how many more options are given to you if something could be online. She is listening to things in Spanish and doing online exercises that are explained in great detail through various steps. A regular textbook cannot do any of these things.
The other part of the video that I liked was the part about how students have 26.5 hours of stuff they do each day after everything has been added up. I did an exercise similar to this in my U101 class and it also had more hours than I could handle. It is weird to think of all the things that we do at the same times as other things. For instance, right now I am on Facebook, doing homework and watching TV all at the same time. As the video said, "I am a multi-tasker, I have to be".
Overall, this video has a lot of truth to it. Our world is a technologically based world and it is only getting bigger as shown in the video of the younger students. Technology is not the most important thing in life and cannot help us solve the worlds problems. People need to start realizing this.
Megan, I agree with basically everything you wrote about! Textbooks are insanely priced, and the bookstore lives off of high-way robbery, if you ask me.
ReplyDeleteWe both had the same experience in our U 101 class with more hours in the day than actually possible. It's ridiculous!
Online textbooks are a fantastic idea. They are cheap, sustainable, and offer a myriad of new teaching applications. I can't tell you how much I love this idea!
ReplyDeleteI love using an online textbook for my math class and history class too! They are so much cheaper and easier to access!
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