Comments on: Digital Ethnography http://www.ethnography.com/2007/11/digital-ethnography/ A group blog on a wide variety of topics realted to anthropology Mon, 08 Mar 2010 05:32:40 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Cindy http://www.ethnography.com/2007/11/digital-ethnography/comment-page-1/#comment-124 Cindy Sun, 11 Nov 2007 21:46:17 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/2007/11/digital-ethnography/#comment-124 I was actually sent the second video you cited (A Vision of Students Today) earlier this week by a Sociology faculty friend of mine as part of an on-going conversation at our institution regarding student engagement. The statistics cited as part of the "narrative" of the film are quite sobering as a faculty member - and are not consistent at all with my own experience of being a college student. While this is a large and complex topic that clearly links to Tony's post about what it means to provide a quality education, I will just say this for now: what my students perceive as "working alot" and "taking a long time to finish" seems to be measured by quite different standards than I did in college. Perhaps when I'm done grading (without the help of any T.A., of course) the papers, tests, and projects of my nearly 100 students this term (in three classes) all of whom I know by name (and some far better than I really would care to!!) I will be able to post more thoughts on the subject... I was actually sent the second video you cited (A Vision of Students Today) earlier this week by a Sociology faculty friend of mine as part of an on-going conversation at our institution regarding student engagement.

The statistics cited as part of the “narrative” of the film are quite sobering as a faculty member – and are not consistent at all with my own experience of being a college student.

While this is a large and complex topic that clearly links to Tony’s post about what it means to provide a quality education, I will just say this for now: what my students perceive as “working alot” and “taking a long time to finish” seems to be measured by quite different standards than I did in college.

Perhaps when I’m done grading (without the help of any T.A., of course) the papers, tests, and projects of my nearly 100 students this term (in three classes) all of whom I know by name (and some far better than I really would care to!!) I will be able to post more thoughts on the subject…

]]> By: Tony http://www.ethnography.com/2007/11/digital-ethnography/comment-page-1/#comment-123 Tony Sun, 11 Nov 2007 09:17:24 +0000 http://www.ethnography.com/2007/11/digital-ethnography/#comment-123 I have a student who is doing here Sr. Honors Thesis on internet celebrity. Some of the "hit" Youtubers are surprisingly accessible. I suspect that their accessibility to students, and people in general, is part of why they are celebrities in the first place. I have a student who is doing here Sr. Honors Thesis on internet celebrity. Some of the “hit” Youtubers are surprisingly accessible. I suspect that their accessibility to students, and people in general, is part of why they are celebrities in the first place.

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