Karl Fisch, in his video “Did You Know?” depicts how American students will be the future leaders of our country, but are behind other countries educationally.
In Karl Fisch’s video “Did You Know?”, he accurately portrays the change needed to occur in the United States education systems, if America wants to innovate and challenge other countries educationally and technologically. As the video begins the words “did you know?” flash across the screen which are then followed by the fact, “China has more honors kids than America has kids”(Fisch, “Did”). Right off the bat, Karl Fisch utilizes this fact to prove that students in the United States are educationally behind one of the most potent challengers to the United States, China. If America is to challenge China in the future, it will have to ramp up education so that their are more honors students who can eventually help invent innovative technology. In Dr. Michael Wesch’s video “A Vision of Students Today” students in a regular college class hold up signs, beginning with two stating, “My average class size is 115,” “18% of my teachers know my name”(Wesch, “A Vision”). Dr. Michael Wesch is trying to convey that most college classes are more about quantity rather than quality of work. As average class sizes grow bigger, teachers are not able to give students the one on one attention they deserve to grow and learn as a student who could potentially become an innovator for the future. If students’ education continues to lack in quality, then America will not be able to, according to Fisch and Wesch, “move ahead” of other countries and challenge them.
