October 16th, 2007
The Kansas State anthropology professor who dazzled us a while back with his Web 2.0 theme, “The Machine is (Us)ing Us” is back — this time with a sobering, thought-provoking commentary on the state of college education today. It’s presumably a U.S.-centric view, and I don’t know whether the situation is substantially better or worse in other parts of the world. In any case, highly worth watching!
October 16th, 2007 at 8:54 am
(1) These are cultural anthropology students - not engineers or computer scientists. I am not sure what that means, but it does seem significant in some way.
(2) “I buy $100 text books that I don’t open” Ouch says a parent of three college students. That is where my money is going????
(3) “I multitask” as a parent of three college students - oh yes they do do that!
(4) They spend more time reading FaceBook than their textbooks. An indictment of the students? An indictment of the textbooks?
(5) Another great video from Wesch.