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Stats on Tech in the Lives of Teens

Pew Internet has an updated report with some interesting facts about when, where, and how students are using technology.

A couple of points that caught our eye. First, well over 90% of teens access the internet at home, and most of those students have cable or DSL connections. However, lower income teens are more likely to access the web using their phones.

Second, almost 1/3 of teens send 100 text messages or more per day. (Wow!) Amazingly, all this texting time doesn’t seem to come at the expense of other forms of communication, as heavy texters say they still make voice calls.

The third stat that may surprise some is that adults over 30 are now slightly more likely to have Facebook accounts than “young adults.” (Which Pew classifies as 18-29 and I classify as “anyone my age or younger.”) This reinforces our sense that Facebook is a potentially powerful parent outreach tool that schools can no longer afford to ignore.

As for Twitter? It’s usage is growing, but it’s still a niche player among teens, with only 8% reporting that they tweet. Compare that with the staggering 80% of teens who report owning a home gaming console.

Hit the link below for the full presentation. What stats surprised you most?

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"Mean World Syndrome" and Technophobia

Pamela Rutledge counters over-hyped (and under informed) fears about the dangers of technology use in this great blog post for the Media Psychology Research Center with a dose of reality and links to solid new research.

Key points: Yes, students need guidance and limits online as in the physical world. However, the online world is comprised of more than YouTube videos of singing dogs and serial killers stalking your children. (Don’t think we don’t like the singing dog videos, though. We do, in moderation. It’s the dancing cat videos that are really dangerous.) There is such a thing as “too much of a good thing,” but that truth doesn’t make that good thing a bad thing.

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How can technology make a person better? Only in this way: by providing each person with chances. A chance to excel at the unique mixture of talents he or she was born with, a chance to encounter new ideas and new minds, a chance to be different from his or her parents, a chance to create something his or her own.

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Reaching the Last Technology Holdouts at the Front of the Classroom

Every semester a lot of professors’ lectures are essentially reruns because many instructors are too busy to upgrade their classroom methods.

That frustrates Chris Dede, a professor of learning technologies at Harvard University, who argues that clinging to outdated teaching practices amounts to educational malpractice.

“If you were going to see a doctor and the doctor said, ‘I’ve been really busy since I got out of medical school, and so I’m going to treat you with the techniques I learned back then,’ you’d be rightly incensed,” he told me recently. “Yet there are a lot of faculty who say with a straight face, ‘I don’t need to change my teaching,’ as if nothing has been learned about teaching since they had been prepared to do it—if they’ve ever been prepared to.”

And poor teaching can have serious consequences, he says, when students fall behind or drop out because of sleep-inducing lectures. Colleges have tried several approaches over the years to spur teaching innovation. But among instructors across the nation, holdouts clearly remain.

» via The Chronicle of Higher Education (Subscription may be required for some content)

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Technologically Illiterate Students

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Say you are an employer evaluating college students for a job. Perusing one candidate’s Facebook profile, you notice the student belongs to a group called “I Pee My Pants When I’m Drunk.” What is your first thought?
It should not be that this student is unemployable for being an intemperate drinker, said Susan Zvacek, director of instructional development at the University of Kansas — though that it might mean that, too. Mainly, though, it should suggest something else — something that might be more relevant to the student’s qualifications.
“What it tells me,” Zvacek said, “is that the student is technologically illiterate.”

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THE Journal education technology Horizon Report

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5 Critical Tech Issues Facing Education -- THE Journal

Diigo excerpt:

This year’s (K-12 Horizon) report cited five challenges that the authors identified as “critical.” They include:

Inadequate digital media literacy training for teachers;

Out of date learning materials and teaching practices;

Lack of agreement on how education should evolve, despite widespread agreement that change is needed;

A failure of education institutions to adapt to informal education, online education, and home-based learning; and

Lack of support for or acknowledgement of forms of learning that usually occur outside the classroom.

On this last point, the report said: “Beyond the classroom walls, students can take advantage of online resources, explore ideas and practice skills using games and other programs they may have on systems at home, and interact with their extensive—and constantly available—social networks. Within the classroom, learning that incorporates real life experiences like these is not occurring enough and is too often undervalued when it does take place. This challenge is an important one in K-12 schools, because it results in a lack of engagement in learning on the part of students who are seeking some connection between their world, their own lives, and their experience in school.”

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Fifteen years ago, you had to be wealthy to have a mobile phone. When somebody took out a mobile phone at a movie, that was a signal that this person was powerful and a member of the wealthy elite. They actually didn’t work very well. It took 10 years to put up the first billion cell phones, and three years to put up the second billion, and 14 months to put up the third billion. We’re now at 5 billion cell phones for 6 billion people. A third of the individuals in Africa have cell phones. According to industry projections that they will all be smart phones within two or three years. So everybody in the world is going to have access to the Internet from these extremely inexpensive mobile devices. The reason for that is that the law of accelerating returns applies approximately a 50 percent deflation rate for information technology. It’s true of every form of information technology, whether it’s genetic data, DNA, brain data, bits of computing, bits of memory, bits of communication. Every year the cost comes down by about half. Ultimately, by the time these technologies work well, they’re extremely inexpensive.

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2010 Horizon Report - Higher Education

The New Media Consortium has published its 2010 “Horizon Report” on technologies and trends likely to impact college-level teaching and learning within the next few years. 

The authors note as key trends:

  • the proliferation of mobile computing
  • the growth of “open” educational content
  • increasing acceptance of ebooks
  • the emergence of “augmented reality” applications
  • the development of gesture-based interfaces, and,
  • development of powerful and easy-to-use tools for visual data analysis.

An overview is provided in the slides below.  The full report is available here as a free PDF download.

The 2010 NMC Horizon Report

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