1. SOCIAL LEARNING WEBINAR
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Key Data Points from Project Tomorrow’s Report
on Social Learning

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4. Guest Presenter: Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow
• Chief Executive Officer since 1999
• Developed Speak Up National Research Project in 2003
• Prior 17-year career in Sales and Marketing management
• Graduate of Brown University
• Serves on Boards of Directors for Project Tomorrow,
TechAmerica Foundation, TechSETS, and previously for
ISTE
• Frances Hesselbein Community Innovation Fellow
• Top Ten Most Influential People in Education Technology
• Welcome, Julie!
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5. Tech-Enabled Social
Learning Environments
A Special Webinar
Speak Up 2011 National Findings
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
November 7, 2012

6. A big thank you to:

7. Today’s Discussion: The Big Questions
 How do we define social learning?
 Is there an unmet demand for the greater use of
social learning within schools?
 What is the value proposition around social learning?
 How can new solutions mitigate some of the
concerns that still exist about social learning?
 What trends are on the horizon that we should all be
watching?

8. Today’s Agenda:
 About the Speak Up Research Project
 Highlights from the new report
 Discussion with you
Speak Up 2011 National Research Project:
Views of K-12 Students, Parents, Teachers,
Librarians and Administrators

9. 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
+ 2.6 million surveys since 2003

10. Speak Up survey question themes
 Learning & Teaching with Technology
 21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship
 Science and Math Instruction
 Career Interests in STEM and Teaching
 Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
 Internet Safety
 Administrators’ Challenges
 Emerging Technologies in the Classroom
 Mobile Devices, Online Learning, Digital Content, E-textbooks
 Educational Games, Web 2.0 tools and applications
 Designing the 21st Century School

11. Saluting our Speak Up 2011 Sponsors:

12. Inviting all K-12 schools and districts to
participate
Speak Up 2012 – 10th Anniversary
Special online surveys to collect and report on the views of the
K-12 students, teachers, librarians, administrators and parents
on the role of technology within teaching and learning.
Surveys open now thru
December 14
Learn more @
www.tomorrow.org/speakup

13. National Speak Up 2011 Participation: 416,758
 K-12 Students 330,117
 Teachers & Librarians 38,502
 Parents (in English & Spanish) 44,006
 School/District Administrators 4,133
 About the participating schools & districts
o 5,616 schools and 1,250 districts
o 24% urban / 35% rural / 41% suburban
o All 50 states + DC
 Honor Roll of States with highest participation:
TX, CA, AL, IN, AZ, NC, FL, WI, VA, MD

14. Speak Up 2011 Congressional Briefings
Washington DC
April 24 and May 23, 2012

15. What can the Speak Up
findings tell us about the
future of learning?

16. Speak Up National Research Project
Key Findings: Speak Up 2003 – 2011
 Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”
 Students regularly adopt and adapt emerging technologies
for learning
 Students’ frustrations focus on the unsophisticated use of
technologies within education
 Persistent digital disconnect between students and adults
 Exacerbation of lack of relevancy in current education
 Students want a more personalized learning environment

17. Personalized Learning . . . . . . .
“…. process of contouring learning to
individuals, recognizing that individuals
inherently have different strengths and
weaknesses, interests and ways of learning.”
Sir Ken Robinson

18. The New Student Vision for Learning
Social–based learning
Personalized
Un–tethered learning
Learning
Digitally–rich learning

19. The New Student Vision for Learning
Three Essential Elements
Digitally-rich
learning
Students see the use of
relevancy-based digital
tools, content and
resources as key to
education productivity

20. The New Student Vision for Learning
Three Essential Elements
Un-tethered learning
Students envision technology-
enabled learning that
transcends classroom walls

21. The New Student Vision for Learning
Three Essential Elements
Social–based learning
Students want to leverage
emerging communications
and collaboration tools to
create personal learning
networks of experts

22. Introducing . . .
“Defining the Emerging Role of Social
Learning Tools to Connect Students,
Parents & Educators”
A new white paper in collaboration with Schoolwires
based upon the Speak Up 2011 national data

23. Defining the Emerging Role of Social Learning
Tools to Connect Students, Parents & Educators
Key findings:
 Increased value around social learning

24. Defining the Emerging Role of Social Learning
Tools to Connect Students, Parents & Educators
Key findings:
 Increased value around social learning
 Students have high aspirations for leveraging social
learning tools

25. Defining the Emerging Role of Social Learning
Tools to Connect Students, Parents & Educators
Key findings:
 Increased value around social learning
 Students have high aspirations for leveraging social
learning tools
 Concerns linger with administrators and parents

26. Defining the Emerging Role of Social Learning
Tools to Connect Students, Parents & Educators
Key findings:
 Increased value around social learning
 Students have high aspirations for leveraging social
learning tools
 Concerns linger with administrators and parents
 New cohort of administrators paving a new path for
innovative use

27. What is social learning?
Leveraging social media and networking
technology tools to:
– Develop students’ personal learning networks
– Facilitate collaborations and connectivity
– Engage parents
– Support teachers’ productivity
– Ensure safety and security for participants
– Personalize the learning process

28. How are you using social media tools
for your personal interests?

29. How are you using social media tools
for your personal interests?
2008: Only 27% of parents and 12% of
principals were social networking users

30. “There are teachers that use these social
media sites themselves and see the value
of these as ways to grow professionally, so
making the transition to a site as a tool for
learning should not be a quantum leap.”
High School Principal - AZ

31. Students report facing obstacles to
using technology at school:
Websites I need are blocked 59%
Can’t use my own mobile device at school 55%
Can’t access social networking tools 51%
Too many rules! 48%
Teachers limit our technology use 42%
Can’t communicate with my classmates 39%

32. Students’ wish list!
Principals are you listening?
Ability to access projects from home computers 46%
Provide tools to communicate with classmates 39%
Provide tools to organize my schoolwork 38%
Provide tools to communicate with my teacher 34%
Provide tools to support collaboration 32%

33. The Social Learning Value Proposition
Administrators’ perspective on the value of
social learning
1. Sharing information with parents
2. Extends learning beyond the school day
3. Increases parental engagement
4. Provides more personalized learning
5. Facilitates student collaborations
6. Increases educator productivity
7. Enables stronger community connectivity

34. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety

35. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy

36. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy
 Monitoring for academic use

37. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy
 Monitoring for academic use
 Providing access to all students

38. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy
 Monitoring for academic use
 Providing access to all students
 Teachers need training to use tools effectively

39. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy
 Monitoring for academic use
 Providing access to all students
 Teachers need training to use tools effectively
 “No adults allowed” in my social spaces

40. Challenges of Implementing Social Learning
Administrators’ Perspective
 Protecting student safety
 Ensuring student information and data privacy
 Monitoring for academic use
 Providing access to all students
 Teachers need training to use tools effectively
 “No adults allowed” in my social spaces
 Is there an academic tool that mimics com’l features?

41. “A school social learning environment
would be fantastic. It needs to be
seamless though and simulate the latest
social media that the kids already use.
People expect their digital work to
overlap and be immediately accessible.”
High School Administrator - WI

42. Imagine you are designing the ultimate
school for today’s students,
what technologies would have the
greatest impact on learning?

43. Imagine you are designing the ultimate
school for today’s students,
what technologies would have the
greatest impact on learning?
Creating a shared vision?

44. Social learning in the ultimate school:
Safe chat rooms where we can
discuss course materials
with classmates
51% of students

45. Social learning wish list for the ultimate school:

46. The New Student Vision for Learning
Social–based learning
Personalized
Un–tethered learning
Learning
Digitally–rich learning

47. Key trends we are watching: personalized learning
• Continuing “digital disconnects”
• Spectrum of digital native-ness
• 24/7 access redefined
• Inadequacy of the 1-to-1 paradigm
• Everyone needs a personal learning network
• Responsible use vs. acceptable use
• Blurring of informal & formal learning lines
• Students define success differently

48. Key trends we are watching: personalized learning:
• Collaborations driving 21st century skills
• Game-ification momentum – learning as process
• Students as content producers
• Changing ideals for assessment
• Print to digital migration surprises
• It’s really all about productivity!
• Emergence of Free Agent Learners!

49. More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org
National Speak Up Findings and reports
Targeted and thematic reports
– Social learning
www.tomorrow.org/speakup/SocialLearning_2012.html
– Online learning trends
– Mobile learning & social media
– Print to digital migration
– Intelligent adaptive software
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and
efficacy studies

50. A big thank you to:

51. Inviting all K-12 schools and districts to
participate
Speak Up 2012 – 10th Anniversary
Special online surveys to collect and report on the views of the
K-12 students, teachers, librarians, administrators and parents
on the role of technology within teaching and learning.
Surveys open now thru
December 14
Learn more @
www.tomorrow.org/speakup

52. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
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