Learning in the 21st Century Webinar

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Students, Parents & Educators Speak Up About Online Learning Webinar September 21, 2010 Julie Evans Project Tomorrow [email_address]

A big thank you to:

Series of Speak Up Reports in collaboration with Blackboard

Today’s Agenda:
About Speak Up
Highlights from the new report
Panel discussion
Conversation time
Speak Up Research Project: Views of Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators & Pre-Service Teachers

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Panel Discussion Judy Bauernschmidt Director, Student Online Learning 21st Century Virtual Academy Jefferson County, CO Katie Pratt Student Florida Virtual School Barbara Smith Director Virtual School Network Project Texas Education Agency

Today’s Discussion: The Big Questions
What is the vision of today’s students for online learning? How do they define the “value proposition?”
How does this student vision compare with the educators’ vision ?
What challenges or obstacles do educators face in implementing online learning? What benefits are already being realized?

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
Speak Up National Research Project

Empowering authentic voices – since 2003:
1.6 million K-12 students
142,000 teachers
82,000 parents
10,500 school leaders
1,900 pre-service teachers
23,000 K-12 schools – from all 50 states, DC, American military base schools, Canada, Mexico, Australia, int’l schools . . .
71 schools of education
Speak Up National Research Project 1.85 million respondents

Speak Up is facilitated annually
by Project Tomorrow
(formerly known as NetDay)
Project Tomorrow (www.tomorrow.org) is the leading education nonprofit organization dedicated to the empowerment of student voices in education.

Saluting our Speak Up Sponsors:

Thank you to our K-12 National Champion Outreach Partners: And the 75+ other national education and business associations & nonprofit groups that promote Speak Up to their stakeholders, members & affiliates.

Learning & Teaching with Technology
21 st 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
Online Learning, Mobile Devices, Digital Content
Educational Games, Web 2.0 tools and applications
Designing the 21st Century School
Speak Up survey question themes

K-12 Students 299,677
Teachers 38,642
Parents (in English & Spanish) 26,312
School/District Administrators 3,947
Schools / Districts 5,757 / 1,215
Pre-Service Teachers 1,987
Schools of Education 71
Participating States = all 50 states
Top 12 (# of participants):
TX, AZ, AL, CA, FL, MD, PA, NC, AR, MO, NY, IL
National Speak Up 2009 Participation: 370,565

About our K-12 Schools:
97% public, 3% private
38% urban, 31% suburban, 32% rural
54% Title 1 eligible – indicating community poverty
42% majority-minority student population
About our Schools of Education/Aspiring Teachers
89% four year public institutions
2/3 undergraduates; 1/3 graduate students
National Speak Up 2009 Participation: 370,565

Creating Our Future: Students Speak Up about their Vision for 21st Century Learning
Speak Up 2009 National Findings: K-12 Students & Parents
Unleashing the Future:
Educators Speak Up about the Use of Emerging Technologies for Learning
Speak Up 2009 National Findings: Teachers, Aspiring Teachers & Administrators
Release of two national reports March 16 and May 5, 2010 Both are available at www.tomorrow.org

Sampling of Key Findings: Speak Up 2003 – 2009
Persistent digital disconnect between students and adults
Students’ frustrations with the lack of technology use in school
Lack of relevancy in education exacerbated
Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”
Students adopt and adapt emerging technologies for learning
Introducing the “Free Agent Learner”

Introducing the “Digital Advance Team” Today’s K-12 Students Adopting/adapting technologies for learning Tech trend setters Their use predicts widespread acceptance Out of school use drives in school use Pace car for others Teachers ultimately catch up

Key finding of the students’ report: A new uniquely “student vision” for leveraging emerging technologies to drive achievement and educational productivity

Three Essential Elements in the Student Vision
Digitally–rich learning
Un–tethered learning
Social–based learning

Three Essential Elements
Digitally–rich learning
Students see the use of relevancy-based digital tools, content and resources as key to education productivity

Un–tethered learning
Students envision technology-enabled learning that transcends classroom walls

Social–based learning
Students want to leverage emerging communications and collaboration tools to create personal networks of experts

Introducing . . .
Learning in the 21st Century:
2010 Trends Update
A special collaboration with Blackboard, Inc.

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Who is learning online? 4% 9% 7% 8% Took an online class for personal reasons 10% 18% 9% 13% Took an online class for school 2008 2009 2008 2009 9 th -12 th grade 6 th - 8 th grade Table 1: Growth in student participation in online classes

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Who is learning online? Online learning is key part of students’ vision for the ultimate school. 52% - Students in grades 9-12 48% - Students in grades 6-8 46% - Students in grades 3-5

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Who is learning online? Online learning is key part of students’ vision for the ultimate school. 52% - Students in grades 9-12 48% - Students in grades 6-8 46% - Students in grades 3-5 3X increase from 2008

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Who is learning online?
Do you know someone who has taken an online class?
Yes: 65% of high school students
Yes: 53% of middle school students
1/3 of parents have taken an online
class for work or personal reasons

Administrators identify their primary
audience for online learning classes
Teachers 55%
Administrators 32%
Students in traditional settings 26%
At risk students 21%
Home schoolers 12%

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Students’ value proposition: productivity

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Students’ value proposition: learning

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update What is holding back greater adoption? Students say they face barriers in accessing online classes. “ I don’t know about the classes offered at my school” (28%) “ My school does not offer online classes” (25%) “ I don’t know how to find information about online classes” (20%) “ I don’t know how to sign up for online classes” (21%)

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update What is holding back greater adoption? Administrators also identify barriers to providing online classes, besides funding & digital equity.

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Closing the demand gap Teachers value online learning for their own professional development.
52% have taken an online class for PD – 94% increase from 2008
51% want their district to offer more online PD
40% would like to use more online collaboration tools within their PLCs

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Closing the demand gap Pre-service teachers also value online learning.
52% have taken an online class as part of their teacher preparation program
38% have had experience with an online professional learning community
44% believe that a learning management system is a good tool for increasing student achievement
21% support online classes as part of the ultimate school

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Closing the demand gap: challenges
Only 10% of teachers are leveraging online classes to enhance student achievement
Only 26% of teachers are interested in teaching an online class
Only 4% of aspiring teachers are learning how to teach in an online environment

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update With demand for online learning on the rise, are our schools and districts ready and able to meet the challenge?

Learning in the 21st Century: 2010 Trends Update Panel Discussion Judy Bauernschmidt Director, Student Online Learning 21st Century Virtual Academy Jefferson County, CO Katie Pratt Student Florida Virtual School Barbara Smith Director Virtual School Network Project Texas Education Agency

Online surveys available for: K-12 students Parents (in Spanish too!) Teachers Administrators Pre-service teachers Surveys open for input: October 18, 2010 Plan now to participate in Speak Up 2010! Free online report for all Speak Up participating districts w/ your local data: Feb 2011 Release of National Speak Up Findings in Congressional Briefings: Spring 2011 No fee to participate. No limit on the # of surveys submitted. 100% confidential.

Leveraging a unique asset – the ideas of your students!
82% of students would like to be more
involved and share their ideas
Have class discussions
Give input through Speak Up and other surveys
Share ideas online with other students
Be part of a club that researches problems & presents ideas
Be part of a student advisory group for the principal
Set up a blog and wiki to share ideas
Make presentations to the school board

A vision for education in 2019 “ School will become a 24 hour around the clock opportunity with students logging into school from “home.” The role of the teacher will be to lead and assist students in “discovering” the uses for the technology and information. Every student from Pre-K through twelfth grade will have access to learning through the most advanced IT devices available. Learning will occur online at least 80% of the time. School buildings will be open on evenings and Saturdays for remediation, recreation and community activities for the purpose of socialization.” Principal from Michigan

A big thank you to:

Thank you. Let’s continue this conversation. Julie Evans Project Tomorrow [email_address] 949-609-4660 x15 Copyright Project Tomorrow 2010. 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.

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