Learning in the 21st Century: Taking it Mobile!

© Project Tomorrow 2010

K-12 Students, Parents & Educators Speak Up about Mobile Learning

New research from Project Tomorrow

Speak Up 2009 National Findings

Julie EvansProject Tomorrow

[email protected]


New report released this fall:

Learning in the 21st Century:

Taking it Mobile!


A big thank you to:


Today’s Discussion: The Big Questions

What are the expectations of today’s students for the use of mobile devices within education?

How does this student vision compare with the educators’ vision?

What challenges or obstacles do educators face in implementing these technologies? What are the benefits?


Today’s Agenda:

What is Speak Up?

Selected Data Findings

Panel Discussion with our Experts

Conversation Time

Speak Up Research Project: Views of Students, Teachers, Parents, Administrators & Pre-Service Teachers


Introducing our Expert Panel

Kyle MenchhoferTechnology CoordinatorSt. Marys City Schools, St. Marys, OH

Tim WilsonChief Technology OfficerISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools, Twin Cities, MN

Catherine WymanProgram Director of TechnologyXavier College Preparatory School, Phoenix, AZ


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 Services to help transform teaching and learning

Speak Up National Research Project


Empowering authentic voices – since 2003: 1.9 million K-12 students 180,000 teachers and librarians 124,000 parents 15,500 school and district leaders 30,000 K-12 schools – from all 50 states, DC,

American military base schools, Canada, Mexico, Australia, int’l schools . . .

Speak Up National Research Project

2.2 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.


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 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% private38% urban, 31% suburban, 32% rural54% Title 1 eligible – indicating community poverty42% majority-minority student population

About our Schools of Education/Aspiring Teachers89% four year public institutions2/3 undergraduates; 1/3 graduate students



Release of two national reportsMarch 16 and May 5, 2010

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

Both are available at www.tomorrow.org



Release of national findings:

Student & Parent Data: April 1

Educator Data: early May

Stay tuned to all Speak Up announcements:

www.tomorrow.org

SpeakUpEd – Twitter and Facebook


Key Findings: Speak Up 2003 – 2010

Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”

Students regularly adopt and adapt emerging

technologies for learning

Students’ frustrations with the unsophisticated

use of technologies within education

Lack of relevancy in education exacerbated

Persistent digital disconnect between

students and adults


What can the Speak Up

findings tell us about the

future of learning?


Increasingly, students’

aspirations around the use of

emerging technologies within

education is a reflection of

their desired vision for learning

in general.

What can the Speak Up data tell us about the future of learning?


Result:

A new uniquely “student vision” for leveraging emerging technologies to drive achievement and educational productivity


Creating Our Future: Students Speak Up about their Vision for 21st Century Learning

Three Essential Elements in the Student Vision

Social–based learning

Digitally–rich learning

Un–tethered learning



Three Essential Elements


Students want to leverage emerging

communications and collaboration

tools to create personal networks of

experts





Students see the use of relevancy-

based digital tools, content and

resources as key to education

productivity





Students envision technology-

enabled learning that transcends

classroom walls


Three Essential Elements of the Student Vision =

Mobile Learning



Taking it Mobile!

A special collaboration with Blackboard, Inc.

http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/MobileLearningReport_2010.html


Taking It Mobile! Report Methodology

Analysis of Speak Up 2009 Data 370,000 K-12 students, teachers, administrators and parents

Profiling of current mobile learning users

Interviews with educators and students

Focus on activities, attitudes and aspirations


Taking It Mobile! Report Methodology

Interviews with educators and students

Xavier College Preparatory, Phoenix AZ

Paradise Valley Unified School District, Phoenix AZ

St Marys School District, St Marys OH

Jamestown Elementary School, Arlington VA

Osseo Area Schools, Maple Grove MN

Onslow County School District, Jacksonville NC


K-12 students have a lot of personal devices that they would like to use for schoolwork


Students face obstacles using technology at school

Top responses from students:

1. I cannot use my mobile device (56%)

2. School filters and firewalls block websites I need

(53%)

3. Teachers limit our technology use (37%)

4. Too many rules! (30%)

Cannot access my communications tools

Rules that limit use of my school’s technology


How schools could make it easier to use technology – the student point of view

Students say:

1. Let me use my own mobile device (60%)

2. Let me use my own laptop (47%)

3. Access my school projects from any computer –

home or at school (47%)

4. Give me unlimited Internet access on campus (43%)

5. I want to access my social networking site and

communications tools (36%)

6. Give us more electrical outlets (28%)


How schools could make it easier to use technology – the student point of view


Audience response

Students: How would using mobile devices at school help you with your schoolwork?

Besides communications and research, what do students say?


Audience response

Besides communications and research, how do students say that using “mobile devices” in school will help them with schoolwork?

Choose top response:

A.Access social networking site

B.Access online textbooks

C.Learn about school activities

D.Share documents, videos and podcasts

E. Receive reminders and alerts

F. Take videos of class presentations or labs to review later


Besides communications and research, how do students say that using “mobile devices” in school will help them with schoolwork?

Access social networking site 35%

Access online textbooks 44%

Learn about school activities 41%

Share documents, videos and podcasts 36%

Receive reminders and alerts55%Take videos of class presentations or labs 39%


Student Value Proposition for Mobile Learning?


What is the value proposition

for technology in education?

The Educators’ Perspective

Unleashing the Future: Educators Speak Up about the Use of Emerging Technologies for Learning


Audience response

Who do you think is most “bullish” on the importance of effective use of technology for student success? (Besides students!)


Audience response

Who do you think is most “bullish” on the importance of effective use of technology for student success? (Besides students!)

Parents

District administrators

School principals

Teachers


What is the value proposition for technology in education?

Importance of effective tech use in instruction

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

Not important

Somewhat important

Important

Extremely important

Teachers

Parents

District Administrators

Principals


Introducing the “Mobile Learning Explorer”

A new cohort of educators are pushing the envelope for mobile learning. . . .

The Educator Perspective


Introducing the “Mobile Learning

Explorer”

2X as likely as other educators to have a smart phone; 4X as likely to have a netbook

Technology is extremely important to student success: 100% agree!

Administrators see value of mobile devices as part of their ultimate school

Teachers currently using mobile devices within instruction



Explorer”


Teachers with smart phones: their concerns about mobile devices in school

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Loss of control

No curriculum

Need training

Use for cheating

Digital equity

Distraction

16+ years

11-15 years

4-10 years

1-3 years


Explorer”


The parent perspective: value on mobile learning


Imagine you are designing the ultimate school.

Which technology tools and services would have the greatest positive impact

on learning?


Imagine you are designing the ultimate school.

Which technology tools and services would have the greatest positive impact

on learning?

Are we all on the same page?



Three Essential Elements in the Student Vision





The Ultimate School: Are we on the same page?

Ultimate School: Elements of Social Based Learning

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

Collaboration tools

Communications tools Principals

Parents

Aspiring Teachers

Students Gr 6-12


Ultimate School: Digitally Rich Learning Environments

0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%

Digital media tools

Games

Online textbooks

E-portfolios Principals

Parents

AspiringTeachers

Students Gr6-12



Ultimate School: Elements of Un-tethered Learning

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80% 90%

Internet access

Laptops

Mobile devices

Online classes

Principals

Parents

Aspiring Teachers

Students Gr 6-12




Taking it Mobile!

A special collaboration with Blackboard, Inc.

http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/MobileLearningReport_2010.html


Introducing our Expert Panel

Kyle MenchhoferTechnology CoordinatorSt. Marys City Schools, St. Marys, OH

Tim WilsonChief Technology OfficerISD 279 - Osseo Area Schools, Twin Cities, MN

Catherine WymanProgram Director of TechnologyXavier College Preparatory School, Phoenix, AZ


Leveraging a unique asset – the ideas of your students!

82% of students would like to be more involved and share their ideas

• Give input through Speak Up • Have class discussions

• 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


National Speak Up Findings 2003 – 2009

Additional data analysis

Presentations, podcasts and webinars

Reports and white papers

Information about other services

Speak Up 2010 Findings: April 1

More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org


A big thank you to:


Thank you.

Let’s continue this conversation.

Julie EvansProject Tomorrow

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