In Wesch's piece, he describes the plight of the modern day student. He beings by asking a simple question, "If these [classroom] walls could talk, what would they say?" He argues that they would be very disappointed with the serious problems technology throws into society that cause a decline in the quality of education. He claims that technology is not improving life, but rather deteriorating its quality. For one, he claims that the average student would need 26.5 hours in a day to complete everything that he or she actually does. This would mean that he would definitely need to multi-task. While beneficial in the fact that more can be accomplished, it separates the student from life happening around him.
I think that this explained well in the beginning what Wesch was trying to get across. What I'm not sure about is how that more can be accomplished separates the student from life happening around them.
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