Transcript SU 2007 Congressional Briefing

Students, Teachers, Parents
and School Leaders
“Speak Up”
about Education & Technology
Congressional Briefing
Release of 2007 National
Findings
April 8, 2008
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Speak Up is facilitated annually by
Project Tomorrow
(formerly known as NetDay)
About Project Tomorrow:
A national education nonprofit organization
providing leadership, research and
programming to support STEM education in
America’s schools
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What is Speak Up?
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Annual national research project
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Collect data ↔ Stimulate conversations
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Students, Teachers, Parents and School Leaders
Inform policies & programs
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Online surveys
Open for all K-12 schools
Schools/districts get their own data for planning and budgeting
Analysis and reporting – national reports
Services: custom reports, consulting with schools, Speak Up Your Way!
5 years of empowering authentic voices – since 2003:
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1.1 million K-12 students
74,000 teachers
1.2 million respondents
34,000 parents
3,200 school leaders
14,000 schools – from all 50 states, DC, American military base
schools, Canada, Mexico, Australia
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Thank you!
Representative
Lucille Roybal-Allard
Our Speak Up 2007 National Release
Congressional Sponsor
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We would like to recognize our
Speak Up 2007 Sponsors:
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We would like to also acknowledge the
support of our Speak Up 2007
National Champion Outreach Partners:
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Audience Response:
How do you regularly use technology?
a. Download music
b. Play online games
c. Go to TV show websites to “vote”
d. Maintain a personal website
(MySpace, Facebook, Xanga)
e. Participate in Second Life
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Agenda
Welcomes
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow
Al Berkeley, Pipeline Financial Group, Inc.
Chris Rother, CDW-G
Remarks
Jessica Korf
Office of Rep. Lucille Roybal-Allard
Release of National
Findings
Julie Evans
Panel Discussion
Students, teachers, administrators and
parents
Closing
Mick Adkisson, SMART Technologies
Q and A
Julie Evans, Panelists and Audience
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How do we provide today’s
students with 21st century
learning opportunities?
How do we create
21st century schools?
How do we prepare students for
jobs & careers of the future?
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Welcome from the Project Tomorrow Board
Alfred R. Berkeley III
Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
Pipeline Financial Group, Inc. and Pipeline
Trading Systems LLC
Board Member, Project Tomorrow
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Welcome from CDW-G
Christina V. Rother
Group Vice President, Public Sector - CDW
Government, Inc.
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Remarks
Jessica Korf
Legislative Assistant, Office of
Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard
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Speak Up 2007
for Students, Teachers, Parents &
School Leaders
“21st Century Students
Deserve a 21st Century Education”
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Speak Up 2007 Participation Overview
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K-12 Students
Teachers
Parents (in English & Spanish)
School/District Administrators
Schools
Districts
States
o Top 10: TX, CA, AZ, IL, AL, MD, NC,
About Speak Up 2007 Schools:
– 97% public, 3% private
– 32% urban, 40% suburban, 29% rural
– 43% Title 1 eligible
– 29% majority-minority student population
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319,223
25,544
19,726
3,263
3,729
867
All 50
PA, FL, MI
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Audience Response:
What is the total of Speak Up surveys
submitted in Maryland?
Speak Up Math
Student Surveys =
19,500
Teacher, Parent
& Administrator
Surveys
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a. 19,700
b. 22,500
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This year’s survey question themes
 Learning & Teaching with Technology
 Web 2.0 / Web 3.0 in Education
 21st Century Skills
 Science Instruction & Global Competitiveness
 Emerging Technologies in the Classroom
 Designing the 21st Century School
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Key finding:
Digital disconnect continues to exist
 Between students and adults
 Between advanced tech students and
others
 Between girls and boys
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Parents, Teachers, School Leaders:
What kind of tech user are you?
Self Assessment of Tech Skills
Leaders
Beginner
Teachers
Average
Advanced
Parents
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Audience Response:
What % of students grades 6-12 consider
themselves “advanced tech users?”
a. 6%
b. 24%
c. 70%
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What % of students grades 6-12 consider
themselves “advanced tech users?”
Students' Self Assessment: Tech Skills
6%
24%
Advanced
Average
Beginner
70%
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Students:
What do you do regularly with technology?
The “Big 4”
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Online and computer gaming
Download music
Communications – email, IM, Txt
Maintain a personal website
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Audience Response:
Which of the “Big 4” activities is #1 with
students today?
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Online and computer gaming
Download music
Communications – email, IM, Txt
Maintain a personal website
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The “Big 4”
• Online and computer gaming
– Over 64% of students K-12 play
• Download music
– #1 with students in grades 6-12
• Communications – email, IM, Txt
– Girls still lead in usage
• Maintain a personal website
– 40% of students grades 6-8
– 67% of students grades 9-12
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Students:
What do you do regularly with technology
– for schoolwork?
Top 5 responses:
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Writing assignments (74%)
Online research (72%)
Checking assignments/grades online (58%)
Creating slideshows, videos, webpages (57%)
Email or IM classmates about assignments
(44%)
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Value proposition of tech in today’s schools
School leaders say:
Enhances student achievement
Important to school mission
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Value proposition of tech in today’s schools
School leaders say:
Enhances student achievement
Important to school mission
84%
88%
Parents say:
Information about grades
Accelerates learning
More connected to school
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Value proposition of tech in today’s schools
So why?
#1 use of technology by teachers:
• Home work & practice
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Value proposition of tech in today’s schools
So why?
Student frustration with tech use at
school is still so high – especially re:
– Access
– Rules
– Usage
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Obstacles to student tech use at school
Top 4:
• Filters block websites I need
• Rules against using technology tools
• Rules that prevent me from using my
own tools
• Teachers limit tech use
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How could your school make it easier for you?
• Use my own devices
• Increase my access
63%
48%
– Applications
– Projects
– Network
• Provide tools
– Communications
– Organization
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Digital Disconnect: A new battleground
Emerging technologies in education
• Mobile devices
• Online learning
• Gaming technologies
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Using Mobile Devices for Learning
Students' Access to Mobile Devices
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70%
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50%
K-2
Gr 3-5
40%
30%
20%
10%
0%
Gr 6-8
Gr 9-12
CellPhone
Laptop
MP3
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How student want to use mobile devices
to support learning
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Communications
Collaborations
Creativity
Productivity
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How student want to use mobile devices
to support learning
• Communications
– Email teachers, classmates
– Access personal websites
• Collaborations
– Projects and calendars
• Creativity
– Create/share documents
• Productivity
– Research, downloads, ed games
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Educator & parent views:
Mobile devices in education
Value proposition:
– Engagement (52%)
– Extends learning (43%)
– Prepares for world of work (42%)
Issues:
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Digital equity
Lack of administrator support
Not convinced about benefits
Control issues
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Online learning and students
High School
• 8% taken
• 9% taken
• 6% taken
Students’ Usage
online class
a class with an online component
an online class outside of school
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Online learning and students
Is there interest in taking online
classes? Yes!
33% of high school students
24% of middle school students
19% of students grades 3-5
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Audience Response:
What is the #1 reason middle school
students want to take an online class?
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Take class not offered at my school
Get extra help in a subject
Earn college credit
To work at my own pace
To learn more about the subject
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What is the #1 reason middle school
students want to take an online class?
Why Students Want to Take an Online Class
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Educators and online learning
Teachers:
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16% have taken an online class
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31% would like to for prof development
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33% explored for fit in classroom
School Leaders
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1/3 have not incorporated any form
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45% say would do so “to engage students”
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Why not? Funding
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Gaming Technologies in Learning
• Over 64% of students K-12 play
• Average is 8 – 10 hours per week
• Using a wide variety of devices
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Cell phones
Computer games
Console video players
Handhelds
Web-based: single or multi user
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Audience Response:
Girls are most likely to use which device for
their gaming activities?
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Cell phones
Computer games
Console video players
Handhelds
Web-based single user game
Web-based multi-user game
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Girls are most likely to use which device for
their gaming activities?
a. Cell phones
b. Computer games
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Console video players
Handhelds
Web-based single user game
Web-based multi-user game
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Student views – why include gaming in school?
• Easier to understand difficult concepts
51%
• More engaged in learning material
50%
• Would learn more
46%
• More interesting to practice problems
44%
• Go beyond & try new things
37%
• See results of my problem solving
35%
• Direct my own learning
34%
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Teacher views – use of games in education
• 11% currently use some gaming tech in
their classroom
• 50% would be interested in learning more
• Value proposition:
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Increase student engagement (65%)
Address different learning styles (65%)
Student centered learning (47%)
Develop problem solving and critical thinking (40%)
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What if you could design the
ultimate school . . . .
what technologies would have the
greatest impact on your learning?
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Audience Response:
What do students say is the #1 tech tool or
service that will impact their learning?
a.
Digital equipment for creating m/m
projects
b. Games and virtual simulations
c. Personal laptops for each student
d. Student access to email and IM at school
e. Using devices like cellphones, MP3 players
and PDAs
f. Online classes
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What do students say is the #1 tech tool or
service that will impact their learning?
Students in Kindergarten thru 12th grade say
the same thing every year:
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What do students say is the #1 tech tool or
service that will impact their learning?
Students in Kindergarten thru 12th grade say
the same thing every year:
“Give me a laptop for my personal
use at school and at home”
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Students create the ultimate school
Other top vote getters:
Access to online research tools
56%
Using devices like cellphones, MP3 players and PDAs 53%
Games and virtual simulations
53%
Interactive white boards
52%
Digital equipment for creating m/m projects
52%
Student access to email and IM at school
46%
Unlimited student access to Internet
46%
Career technical education classes
46%
Online classes
43%
Handheld student response systems
40%
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Is your school doing a good job preparing
you/your students/your child for future jobs?
Yes:
School Principals
District Administrators
Teachers
Parents
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48%
47%
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Is your school doing a good job preparing
you/your students/your child for future jobs?
Yes:
School Principals
District Administrators
Teachers
Parents
66%
48%
47%
43%
Advanced tech students
23%
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Introducing our Educator & Parent Panelists:
Ron Beazer
Paul R. Caputo
Yvette Goslee
Jandelyn Plane
Janet Purcell
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Introducing our Student Panelists:
Kliffi Blackstone
Jonathan Blake
Paul M. Caputo
Beth Chapolini
Angel Plane
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More Speak Up?
• Visit www.tomorrow.org
– Reports
– Webinars – new series for 2008
– Podcasts
– Speak Up Blog
– Facebook
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What’s Next?
• Speak Up 100 Schools Announcement
• New reports:
– Science data findings
– School leaders
• Customized reports and consulting
services
• Conference presentations
• Speak Up 2008
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Closing Remarks
Mick Adkisson
Manager, Education Advocacy
SMART Technologies
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Closing Remarks – Q&A
Julie Evans
Expert Panelists
Today’s Briefing Participants
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Thank you for your participation in today’s Briefing.
If you have any questions, please contact us:
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
[email protected]
949-609-4660 x15
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