Top Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Students and Digital Learning
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Project Tomorrow is a national research project that surveys K-12 students, teachers, parents, and administrators about digital learning. It has collected over 3 million surveys since 2003. The document outlines 10 key findings from Project Tomorrow's 2012 survey results, including that 50% of middle and high school students use the internet weekly for homework help, 41% of students want to take online classes to learn at their own pace, and 75% of K-2nd grade students regularly play educational online games. It encourages readers to learn more about trends in online learning, mobile learning, and print to digital migration.
Top Ten Things Everyone Should Know About Students and Digital Learning
- 1. Top Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Students and Digital Learning Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO October 11, 2013 © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 2. A big thank you to: © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 3. Speak Up National Research Project Annual national research project Online surveys + focus groups Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education Institutions receive free report with their own data Collect ideas ↔ Stimulate conversations K-12 Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators Pre-Service Teachers in Schools of Education Inform policies & programs Analysis and reporting of findings and trends Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning + 3 million surveys since 2003 © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 4. National Speak Up 2012 Participation: 466,303 K-12 Students Teachers & Librarians Parents (in English & Spanish) School/District Administrators 364,233 56,346 39,713 6,011 About the participating schools & districts o 8,020 schools and 2,431 districts o 30% urban / 43% rural / 27% suburban o All 50 states + DC Honor Roll of States with highest participation: TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, WI, AZ, FL, PA © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 5. Top Ten Things Everyone Should Know about Students and Digital Learning © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 6. 50% of students in grades 6-12 use the Internet at least weekly for homework help © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 7. 41% of students who have not taken an online class say they would like to – to learn at their own pace © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 8. 6 of 10 students say flipped learning sounds like a good way to learn © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 9. 1/3 of middle school students say their preference is to read digital content – rather than print materials for schoolwork © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 10. 29% of students have used a YouTube video to help with homework © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 11. Texting a teacher in class? 30% of students say they want to be able to do that – and get an immediate response © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 12. 75% of students K-2nd grade regularly play educational online or video games © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 13. Student use of Twitter has increased 3X since 2011 – today 34% of high student students tweet regularly © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 14. 38% of students are using Facebook as a school project collaboration site © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 15. Students are multi-mobilists! • • • 80% of Gr 9-12 have a smartphone – 45% of Gr 3-5 52% of Gr 6-8 have a tablet Students prefer different devices for different academic tasks © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 16. More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org National Speak Up Findings and reports Targeted and thematic reports Online learning trends Mobile learning & social media Print to digital migration Social learning Intelligent adaptive software New digital parent series Presentations, podcasts and webinars Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy studies © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 17. A big thank you to: © 2013 Project Tomorrow
- 18. Thank you. Let’s continue this conversation. Julie Evans Project Tomorrow [email protected] 949-609-4660 x15 Twitter: JulieEvans_PT and SpeakUpEd Copyright Project Tomorrow 2013 This work is the intellectual property of the author. Permission is granted for this material to be shared for non-commercial, educational purposes, provided that this copyright statement appears on the reproduced materials and notice is given that the copying is by permission of the author. To disseminate otherwise or to republish requires written permission from the author. © 2013 Project Tomorrow