The Innovative Educator blog shares process suggestions for schools in evaluating policies and practices related to mobile devices (e.g. smart phones) in this post.
Shocking/sad stat: 63% of teachers surveyed said these devices have “no place” in schools.
This post by Brian Solis covers some recent stats from Nielsen on social network usage broken down by gender. The quick summary: females outnumber males on every major network.
Interestingly, Generation X women, not Generation Y or millennials, make up the largest share of women accessing social networks from mobile devices.
Does this mean there is less of a generation “gap” between tweens and teens and their teachers, mothers, aunts and big sisters than media hype about the “net generation” would suggest?
Or is this just a result of the fact that women in the 35-54 bracket are more likely than younger women to have moved up to jobs that allow them to pay the extra $30 a month for all-you-can eat mobile web access?
(For a network-by-network breakdown of the gender gap, see Solis’ full article here.)
