Both of my younger siblings are still in high school, and both of them were gifted Chrome Books from their school in order to work on assignments, print out papers, and converse with teachers outside of class. I never had that in high school, but since attending college I have learned how to use my computer and the Internet better than I know how find my way through library bookshelves.
Being a student today means being technologically up to date and knowledgable about the world around us. There are still teachers that ask their classes to put their computers away, and for some students this is a huge problem because they really do not know how to take notes any other way.
I have been told by many adults that it really doesn’t matter (to a degree) what you go to school for because chances are, you will end up doing something completely different post graduation than you thought. Is that supposed to reassure me about the tens of thousands of dollars my parents spend every year on an education? Or the hundreds of dollars in text books I buy a semester?
The world is changing, and students today are stuck in the middle of it. We have become products of the problems created today, we are called upon to fix the problems of today, and at the same time no one trusts the “youth” of today. We have been dealt a hand that no other generation has had to deal with. Jobs that are supposedly “secure” are vanishing at the drop of a hat, and new jobs no one has heard of are popping up left and right. And yet, we are sitting in the same rooms as our parents learning almost the same biology and grammar lessons as they did. If the world is changing, the idea of being a student should too because one day, we will be a part of that ever changing world.