A Vision Of Italian Students Today (Our Thoughts.)

This video is the fruit of a long project my 4th year students have been working on this year. Its a video called Our Thoughts.

The video was entirely produced by my students (with the exception of the editing.) We are posting this as a reply to Prof. Mike Wesch's video "A Vision Of Students Today." ( http://tinyurl.com/bdbfx6 )

Prof. Weschs video discusses the old-fashioned methods many teachers still use in class. If you are an educator and you havent seen it yet, you really should. My students have explored the same theme in their video.

Everything you see in this video was written, organised, filmed and publicised (at our school) by the students of our class. This includes the writing of questions, posting them to an online survey host. The statistics quoted in the second part of the video are based on the online questionnaire written entirely by the class. We then turned all the data into the script for our video. Oh, and English is our second language too!

Seeing as the results of our survey showed that by far the most popular means of communication in the school is via SMS, we did an experiment and organised the creation of our Flash Cards via SMS. This is why you'll see some of the flash cards more than once!

The whole school was invited to reply to our survey, which asked what our schoolmates attitudes are to the Italian education system. I think you'll agree, the results are surprising in more ways than one.

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[car976]

Congratulations on your work!

Mike Wesch's video has been an inspiration for me, too. I was thrilled to find out there was an EFL version.

Hugs from Argentina!!

Carla Raguseo

An Argentinian-Italian EFL teacher in Rosario, Argentina

[ronaldolimajunior]

Dear students, you did an exceptional job!

Congratulations for carrying out this survey and for editing the video.

I have one question for you, though: towards the end of the video, you mention you prefer emails. However, I have been feeling that Brazilian teenagers are slowly abandoning their emails and communicating mainly through social site, like facebook, myspace and orkut. How is that for you guys? What is you main means of online communication?

Kindest regards from Brazil!

Ronaldo