Kyle's draft paper

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My student ecology is way different of that of the students in Michael Wesch's video. Differences like i am in a classroom of only 25 people compared to one student who said,"I'm in a class size of 115 students and only 18% of my teachers know my name". Also i have computers in both of the classes i am taking as to the students in Wesch's video don't have computers available to them only if they bring there own laptop. This University helps provide me with some cultural literacy and cultural competence i need in order to succeed during college. Things like getting to class on time and how expensive driving to class everyday is, and paying the meter can get expensive after a couple of days. Also things like how technology is only available in some classes and not in all classes as well as easy access to tutoring at the Student Success Center. I have learned that you must use the technology available to myself in class wisely, and not to misuse my time by doing something else. Technology is limited at this University, and how students spend their time on it instead of doing something else is going to show how culturally literate and culturally competent they become.

In some ways the University of Missouri is falling short and one of those ways is the limited technology that is available to students. In some classes I have seen there are computers available to each student and that there are computer labs in most building available for students to use at any time. Except not every student wants to stay at school and work on there homework. Instead they might want to go home and do it on their computer or laptop or maybe somewhere where it is more convenient that allows them to do their homework. This University should focus on putting computers in every class available to every student so that they can work during class. Many of my friends would rather go home and do their homework on their computer on their own time instead of doing it at school.

The University also has a problem with parking because at some locations on campus when you pay the meter a quarter it only gives you 15 minutes of parking time rather than the 30 minutes at other parking lots around campus. Paying the meter becomes expensive when you have to pay double the money to park at a closer location on campus. Students don't always have enough change with them and when you lose those extra minutes for parking closer you end up either getting a parking ticket with a $10 fine or getting lucky and leaving without a ticket. It makes students decide whether or not to park further away and risk being late to class or paying more in order to make it to class on time. Many times during these last 8 weeks i have had to pay extra for parking closer in order to get to class on time, but i have also not had enough money to pay for enough time and have been ticketed for it and i have also been lucky many times. I know that there are parking passes that the University gives to students but it costs money and not everyone wants to have to pay money for a parking pass. Although if you pay that little extra money it could save time getting to class and quite a bit of money in the long run.

For some students they have parking passes and can park in a parking garage and don't have to pay the meter which can save them a little bit of money. "Chris Smith, a student at Ohio Dominican University, posts lively weekly descriptions of his life as a college baseball player. He gets $20 a posting and has been unafraid to hide his preference for playing ball over going to class or criticizing professors for assigning too much homework. "Being in class is literally the last place you want to be at this time of the year," he wrote on April 12." This goes to show that students who play sports for the school don't seem to think that the actually learning in school part doesn't matter much more than playing their sport. One of my friends,Tony Pescaglia, who is on the University of Missouri wrestling team, told me that " Wrestling is like a job and it takes up a lot of time and it interferes with my schoolwork and is hard to manage." Its not always that the sport is better than going to class but that playing that sport occupies a lot of time and can cause the player to skip school because they just want to play their sport.Students would rather spend time playing sports or partying than being in class and learning something new that could help them become more culturally literate and culturally competent.

This university should also focus on how to reduce class sizes so that students could have a little bit more of one on one times with the teacher like i can in my english and math class. With fewer students in each class and the teacher available to only 25 or 30 students instead of 100-200 students, then the student is capable of having the teacher explain the lesson to them if they fall behind. Missouri is just like K-state in there class sizes and the amount of time students use on irrelevant objects like talking or texting on there phone during class or chatting on facebook in class instead of doing the class assignment."Led by K-State's Allen Featherstone, professor of agricultural economics, the first master of agribusiness class in 1998 had 12 students, mainly from the Great Plains region. Students and alumni of the program can now be found in 35 states and more than 18 countries. Average class size has expanded to between 20 and 25 students from every sector of the food and agribusiness industry, with an age range of 25-55." In some classes at K-state the class size isn't that big like the class size i am in now with a max of 25 people. Although there are some small class sizes at K-state like Missouri "the average time spent on facebook and cell phones in class is 2 hours" according to Michael Wesch's video. Missouri should block web sites like facebook or youtube so students can't access them during class so that they have to either pay attention or leave class. Every day i am in my math class and english class i see people browsing on facebook or looking at baseball stats on espn. None of which has anything to do with math or english at least i wouldn't think it does.

At this university many students like to hang out at Brady Commons because it is a cool place to get some food, some new school apparel at the gift store, or go bowling and play video games down on the floor beneath the food court. I have seen many people down there wasting time on playing video games over and over and bowling with friends as a way to waste time before class. Brady Commons is also a place where i see many people studying and doing homework while eating something from pizza hut or chik-fil-a. It is a good place on campus for students to be able to do some homework and get stuff done rather than going on the floor beneath and bowling. There are some computers located in the school store available for students to use for homework or other things. Missouri also gives students the ability to have a tutor at the Student Success Center located on campus which is available to students throughout the day. I know many students that go there and tell me that through tutoring they are better able to understand how to do certain math problem or how to write a better more constructive paper. Having that available to students is a great way for this university to help its students succeed and it allows them to become culturally literate and culturally competent throughout college. The Ellis library is also another way this university allows students to succeed by having a huge amount of sources of books and encyclopedias that can be used and any point during the day and also having computers to do work on while researching at the library. I think that Missouri is doing a great job in giving students the ability to take advantage of the tutoring it offers and the alomst endless information that is available at the library for research. Students can spend as much time as they want at the library to get work done because it is quiet, and there are computers to do homework on while researching but it sometimes gets a little crowded.

Overall i believe the the University of Missouri is doing a good job and that it provides ways for students to spend there time wisely to get work done for class and to allow themselves to become more culturally literate and culturally competent. Having places like the Student Success Center, Ellis library, and Brady Commons can only help students achieve during college but it is up to the student to choose to use these places and not wasting time on there phone or computer. The University need to put computers in every classroom for every student but also needs to block certain websites so that students to become distracted and lose focus during class. Although the students should be responsible for how they use the technology they have in class for the purpose it is there for, and that is so that the students can become culturally literate and culturally competent in class. The University of Missouri is not responsible for how students use this technology and that it is dependent on the student to use their time wisely in class. The University didn't have to put computers in some classes but they did in hope that the students would use it for the right reasons and not using it for irrelevant things.

Kyle, you have some good ideas here, but it's all unsupported opinion. In that this should be a research paper, it would ideally contain research. The single uncited source that you have doesn't really address the connection to this University, and as an aside, is technically plagiarism. Also, there's been no integration with the rest of the assignments, and there's been very little proofreading.