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In his short documentary video, “A Student's Vision”, Michael Wesch of Kansas State University portrays the technological handicaps of today's classroom. Student’s days broken down by the activities they perform puts them at 26.5 hours in a day. Classrooms have an average of 115 kids, making it nearly impossible for students to receive guidance on what they specifically need to improve on. In conclusion, Michael Wesch clearly shows his depiction of the technological handicaps of today's learners.

In the documentary video, “A Student’s Vision”, Michael Wesch correctly portrays the ideals of today's classroom. Wesch states that students have a 26.5 hour day on average when you balance together school work, sleep, and other daily activities. He also implies that classrooms today are too crowded for students to get the personalized learning they need to succeed.

Although students spend multiple hours of the day on their phones and watching TV, they do need time to relax. If students spent their whole day doing school work, and not having time to relax, they would be extremely tired in class and would be less likely to succeed. Therefore, teachers need to give students less school work, so that they have time in the day to relax. Teachers might think that the more school work students do, the smarter they get, but that is untrue. If students get tired from all of this school work, they will struggle to focus in class, and not be able to learn as much as they could.

On the other side of the spectrum, all students need to do is shave off a couple of hours of TV, cellphone relaxation time to fit into the 24 hour schedule. Students spend too much time doing things that don’t affect their schoolwork, or affect it in a negative way. This is a fixable problem however. Universities could institute specialized times for these such things, like unscheduled periods in high-school, where the student could relax, study, or seek help on work.