Since 2003, the NetDay (www.netday.org) Speak Up annual online survey has collected authentic, unfiltered feedback from K•12 students about their use of technology for learning and entertainment. Learn about students’ expectations for technology use and their aspirations for a 21st-century learning environment as uncovered in the most recent survey data.
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There are one of two sessions that address the question of students of the future. I'm glad to say I've already had several conversations about the need to address literacies other than the technical literacy that some Digi Natives show. In the previous session there was some data that suggested younger kids were showing increased signs of multi-tasking. I thought the data just showed they hadn't learnt how to organise themselves. I think we need to be really cautious about simplistic perceptions of fluent DNs. What are they fluent in? What aren't they fluent in? Looking forward to this session...
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This didn't disappoint. How applicable the data is to the UK I don't know and I'm not aware of an equivalent survey in the UK. This is still very useful. Presentation will go up with podcast on Educause site and Netday are publishing results as they process them. Student data due 26th Jan. so here are a couple of notes from me in the meantime.
- She said there's a 'spectrum of Digital Natives' (Yes!) Classrooms in k12 are only recently reliably connected (and what they're doing with that may not be great yet).
- Online courses are perceived as opportunities to get extra support compared to offline by students
- Outside of school use is very different to in school use of connected technologies
- Severe obstacles in school especially teacher control that 'added inefficiency' and led to a student perception of irrelevancy' of schools for learning
- Tech is just a tool to kids - no shiny metal fad as with adults. It's there, they use it. It promotes/enables 'effectiveness, efficiency and accuracy'
- Older kidz teach younger kidz about techs
- We haven't reached a tipping point with teacher ICT skills
Good session. Look out for info as we may adopt some of this in student survey. Also worth looking at Pew research on demographics. It would be interesting to ask similar questions so that we could map UK against US findings.
I realised it's good to have a daughter and that she is a good source of data (I interviewed her at Xmas).
Next Bryan A....
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This sounds like really interesting data. The interview Liz and I did with Carie Windham at Educause suggested that the "net gen" stuff was pretty comparable globally - I, like you, would be interested to know if this is the same in schools. Your point about focus on technical competency only is why I like information fluency as a core skill focus(nexus info literacy, IT literacy and critical thinking) - UCF big in this area - my only caveat would be that there are still a lot of digital interaction skills to develop that are not about information per se - any thoughts there about digital interactivity?
btw - came across "Perceptive Pixel" on Bryan's blog - is there anything about it there? - http://fastcompany.com/video/general/perceptivepixel.html
this was a keynote, so we were both there - I can add a few things to Andrew's comprehensive summary:
Kids in US Schools mostly use the web for research, but also for keyboarding (ie learning how to type) - they think university will be totally different with savvy lecturers pushing at the limits.
40% of kids use IM to talk to mates about school projects (oh yeah, I believe this one)
Kids favourite communications tool? NOT email, not IM, not texting, but plain old normal talking on the phone (with the parents paying the bill I reflected)
9 year olds - 22% of them have online friends that they have never met
I've been chasing some of the links in my RSS feeds and found a report entitled "Their Space: Education for a digital generation" that was recently published by Demos (www.demos.co.uk), who I'd never heard of before. I have yet to read the report, but it seems to fit with the subject of this post. The report is available from: http://www.demos.co.uk/publications/theirspace or, my desk! where I managed to do some clever print stuff with Acrobat and save some paper! And last week I saved some petrol (well, diesel) by leaving my car at home and getting the train in for a couple of days. George Dubya Bush will be pleased!
PS Lizzo, I've seen the story you've posted, and so has Helen. We need to talk about CI and CDT sharing things like this better
...and, I've just been reading Jason Bradbury's blog (he's the geezer on the Gadget Show on channel 5). Read the middle paragraph, next to the photo.... very scary. Link: http://www.jasonbradbury.com/jason_bradbury/2007/01/my_personal_dir.html
I'm not surprised about phoning in a way. However, parents don't pay a bill in the US, as you do here. Phoning people in the same city is 100% free if you have a landline (or at least included in the monthly subscription fee, as its not really free). I would imagine this could be a place where it is different in the UK, as cost is more likely to come into effect (as less phones have the call as much as you want plans).
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