survey results, trends, and analysis

1. EMID 6067 Student Technology Survey Spring 2011

2. 94% of total students at Crosswinds have a computer in their home. 97% of Harambee 4 th & 5 th graders have a computer in their home.

3. By grade level:

4. free and reduced lunch percentages

5. By grade level:

6. 95.5% of total students at Crosswinds have some form of internet access in the home. (mobile and/or broadband) but only 91% of Harambee 4 th & 5 th graders report having internet at home.

7. By grade level:

9. 82% of American adults own a cell phone, Blackberry, iPhone or other device that is also a cell phone. -From 2010 PEW Internet Survey http://www.pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/Cell-Phones-and-American-Adults/Overview.aspx

10. Some 75% of 12-17 year-olds now own cell phones, up from 45% in 2004. Those phones have become indispensable tools in teen communication patterns. Fully 72% of all teens 2 -- or 88% of teen cell phone users -- are text-messagers. That is a sharp rise from the 51% of teens who were texters in 2006. More than half of teens (54%) are daily texters. -From 2010 PEW Internet Survey http://pewresearch.org/pubs/1572/teens-cell-phones-text-messages

12. Taken together, devices capable of accessing either a 3G, 4G, or wifi network, including cell phones with internet, iPod Touches, Sony PSPs, & laptops, fewer than 3% of EMID families with students 4 th grade through 10 th grade do not have access to a mobile internet enabled device.

13. While students report much higher levels of access to the internet or internet-capable devices it appears that laptop ownership is now declining. This may be due to advances in mobile internet access.

15. Student use of Social Networks (By grade level):

16. Social-network sites, much to the chagrin of educators, are a pervasive presence in the lives of schools. -S. Craig Watkins

17. Only about half of the students said that they were given opportunities to use technology at school for creative purposes.

18. I find it a little striking that only about a quarter of 9 th graders report using technology consistently at school for research purposes but for 10 th grade this use is nearly ubiquitous.

19. How frequently students were asked to solve a problem using technology.

20. This data seems to show a disconnect between student school use of technology and personal use since students reported in very high numbers that they use social media and social networking tools.

21. Social inequalities still matter in the physical world. And as we are learning, they also matter in the virtual world. Nowhere is this clearer than in the rise and use of social-networking sites. -S. Craig Watkins

22. Students are clearly using technology to collaborate with others for personal use but rarely if ever are asked to do so at school.

23. Student personal use of online collaborative & publishing tools.

24. When I first began teaching, I didn't know how to speak to or with my students. Standing in front of a group of young people is a linguistic challenge. It is not merely a matter of what you say but of how your language is understood and how you understand the language of your students. -Herb Kohl

25. Without learning to observe children and thereby knowing something of the people one is living with five hours a day, the teacher resorts to routine and structure for protection. -Herb Kohl

26. I learned that unless you knew and cared about your students outside the classroom, about their strengths, dreams, and aspirations as well as their problems, you could easily limit what they could do as students and miss the opportunity to develop a learning community where they could act as themselves and not according to some image they had developed of how children should or shouldn't behave in school. I came to understand that the ability of children to act naturally and at ease with themselves, their friends, and teachers within a learning environment is the key to effective education. -Herb Kohl

27. In the age of DIY media, the fact that we are both consumers and creators of content redefines the rules of media engagement by redefining the rules of media production and consumption. -S. Craig Watkins

28. Think about the class you find most interesting and engaging. Without telling us which class that is, why do you like this class? (Crosswinds only)

29. What students say they like about their favorite class (by grade level)