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These vignettes have been produced as part of the HEA-funded project 'Digitalised cultures and spaces of schooling'. For further details of this project please see: http://bit.ly/ZCqNq8
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“Sometimes I type papers on my cell phone”: Mobile Digital Technologies and CUNY Students (slides)
1. “Sometimes I type papers on my cell phone”
Mobile Digital Technologies and CUNY Students
Maura A. Smale
New York City College of Technology
Mariana Regalado
Brooklyn College
MobilityShifts, An International Future of Learning Summit
October 15, 2011
3. CUNY = NYC
228,484 undergraduates at CUNY in Fall 2010.
17% Asian 44% 1st generation in college
27% Black
29% Hispanic 38% household income < $20,000
26% White
31% work for pay > 20 hrs/wk
43% born outside
the US 14% support children
Mean age = 24
28% over age 25
CUNY OIRA. (2010). A Profile of Undergraduates at CUNY Senior and Community Colleges: Fall 2010.
http://owl.cuny.edu:7778/portal/page/portal/oira/OIRA_HOME/ug_student_profile_f10.pdf
4. CUNY Commutes
They get to campus by
• Public transit 77%
• Driving/car pool 18%
• Walking 5%
One-way travel time is
• Bicycle < 1%
• < 30 minutes 20%
• 30-60 minutes 40%
• 1-2 hours 38%
• >2 hours 2%
CUNY OIRA (2010). Table 5. 2010 Student Experience Survey
http://owl.cuny.edu:7778/portal/page/portal/oira/OIRA_HOME/SES_2010_Final_Report.pdf
5. Mobile Tech By the Numbers
U.S. undergraduates CUNY undergraduates
own own
a cell phone 96% a smartphone50%
a laptop 88% a laptop 64%
access internet/emailon a access the interneton a cell
cell phone 63% phone 36%
Also Also
84% own a portable music 43% own a portable music
player player
9% own an ebookreader 2% own an ebookreader
Smith, A., Rainie, L. & Zickuhr, K. CUNY OIRA. (2010). Table 6A, Student use of
(2011). College students and technology. Pew technology. Student Experience Survey.
Internet & American http://oira.cuny.edu
Life Project, http://pewinternet.org/
7. Cell Phones and Smartphones
“If I don't have “I think I left my phone
my phone, I feel home one time and I felt so
kind of out of naked. I felt like I didn’t
place, because I know what was going on in
can't call the world. I didn’t know
anybody, I can't what time it was. … I didn’t
comm-unicate think I could function
with anyone.” without my phone.”
“I can check e-mail faster on the
go, calendars, Internet, GPS if I
get lost somewhere and I'm going
around, I don't know I just use it
for a lot of stuff. … It would make
life pretty inconvenient to not
have it.”
8. Laptops
“No, no. It’s too “I’d just rather
big, too heavy. keep it at home
With commuting so nothing
and everything, I would happen to
can’t bring it.” it. No water
spill, no
“Mmmm…. damage.”
Maybe once a
week. Because “I brought it
it’s heavy. Plus once and I
my books. It’s forgot to charge
heavy. It kills my it [laughs]. I
back. Because brought it all the
I’m in school way from home
from 11:00 until and it doesn't do
8:30.” shit with no
battery.”
9. Other Mobile Academic Tech
“The Blackberry “Sometimes I type papers on
keeps me my cell phone. And then I
organized. … upload it. I send it to myself
it’s like basically as an email. Then I’ll upload
a handheld it once I get to school.”
organization
device.”
“Just plug the PDF to research and
read it really fast. And I make
notes… make annotations on it. And
then I just export that out and stuff.”
10. Access Issues
“Well I usually go [to the public library]
after school because the internet I think
is more better because the internet in
the school, like some areas are restricted
and most of the time I just want to go
on for fun since I don’t have a computer
or internet in my home."
“So, basically finding a printer
is the biggest problem […]
finding a printer and making
sure my work is done before
my class. That’s really
frustrating.”
11. No Mobile Tech…By Choice
“So, my friends get in contact with
me through Gmail. Either GoogleTalk
or GChat. So, I can send text
messages through Gmail, or I can go
on AIM from Gmail and talk to them
there. So, if they need me, they know
how to get in contact with me."
“I actually prefer email over phone
because I don't have a cell phone and
if somebody wants to get in touch with
me immediately, you know, my phone
is at my house, I'm out a lot of the
time but I can usually get to a
computer and check my email.”