Shiv on Learning

A Vision of Students Today.

A  video summarizing 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. Created by a lecture and 200 of his students. The data was gathered by a brainstorming exercise usinga Google doc.

Some interesting facts about reading & writing from the video:

I will read 8 books this year.
Survey: How many books have you read this year? Average 8.03 (ranging from 0-200)


2300 web pages
Survey: On average, how many web pages do you read each day? Average 21.51
(We then multiplied this by 105 - roughly the number of days in a semester - and rounded to 2300.)

and 1281 facebook profiles
Survey: On average, how many Facebook profiles do you view each day? Average 12.2 (multiplied by 105 = 1281)

“I will write 42 pages for class this semester.”
Survey: On average, how many pages do you write for your classes each semester?
Average: 41.96

“And over 500 pages of email”
Survey: On average, how many pages of e-mails will you write in a single day?
Average: 4.96 (*105 days/semester = over 500)

Source: Digital Ethnography @ Kansas State University

“Today’s child is bewildered when he enters the 19^th century environment that still characterizes the educational establishment where information is scarce but ordered and structured by fragmented, classified patterns subjects, and schedules”

-Marshall McLuhan 1967