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- 1. Much Ado about Digital Content:
But what do students really want?
FETC 2012: Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 2. Today’s Discussion: The Big Questions
• What are the expectations of K-12 students for
leveraging digital content for learning?
• How are teachers, librarians and administrators
addressing this student vision for digital content?
• What are the barriers and the opportunities?
• What does the e-textbook discussion tell us about
the future of teaching and learning?
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 3. Discussion Agenda:
About the Speak Up Project
Introduction to the Student Vision
Speak Up Highlights: Digital Content
Trends to Watch
Discussion
Speak Up 2010 & 2011 National Findings
Views of K-12 Students, Teachers,
Parents and Administrators
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- 4. Speak Up National Research Project
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 of findings and trends
Consulting services to help transform teaching and learning
+ 2.6 million surveys since 2003
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- 5. Speak Up survey question themes
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, E-textbooks
Educational Games, Web 2.0 tools and applications
Designing the 21st Century School
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- 6. What can the Speak Up
findings tell us about the
future of learning?
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- 7. Speak Up National Research Project
Key Findings: Speak Up 2003 – 2012
Students function as a “Digital Advance Team”
Students regularly adopt and adapt emerging technologies
for learning
Students’ frustrations focus on the unsophisticated use of
technologies within education
Persistent digital disconnect between students and adults
Exacerbation of lack of relevancy in current education
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- 11. In my life, I ……..
Play games on handheld devices (57%)
Take tests online for school (40%)
Have a cell phone or smartphone (40%)
Read books on my mobile device (53%)
Want more internet access at school (50%)
and want to take an online class (40%)
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- 12. Who is . . . . . ?
1. 1st Grade Boy
2. 3rd Grade Girl
3. 6th Grade Boy
4. 9th Grade Girl
5. 12th Grade Boy
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- 13. Who is a 3rd
Grade Girl?
(from a rural
community)
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- 14. In my life, I ……..
Play games on handheld devices (57%)
Take tests online for school (40%)
Have a cell phone or smartphone (40%)
Read books on my mobile device (53%)
Want more internet access at school (50%)
and want to take an online class (40%)
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 15. Emerging from the Speak Up research:
A new uniquely “student vision” for
leveraging emerging technologies to
drive achievement and educational
productivity
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- 16. Emerging from the Speak Up research:
A new uniquely “student vision” for
leveraging emerging technologies to
drive achievement and educational
productivity
This student vision for “technology
enabled learning” mirrors how
students want to learn in general
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 17. The Student Vision for Learning
Social–based learning
Un–tethered learning
Digitally–rich learning
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- 18. Speak Up 2010 National Findings
Two national releases in Washington DC
April 1 and May 11, 2011
The New 3 E’s of Education:
Enabled, Engaged, Empowered
Report #1: How today’s students are leveraging
emerging technologies for learning
Report #2: How today’s educators are advancing a
new vision for teaching and learning
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- 19. The New 3 E’s of Education:
Enabled, Engaged, Empowered
Key Trends to Watch:
Mobile Learning
Online and Blended Learning
E-Textbooks and Digital Content
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- 20. The New 3 E’s of Education:
Enabled, Engaged, Empowered
Key Trends: E-Textbooks & Digital Content
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- 21. Inside today’s classroom
How Students are Using Digital Content for Schoolwork
Create presentations and
media
Play educational games
Conduct virtual
experiments/simulations
Use e-textbooks
Gr 9-12
Access realtime
data/databases Gr 6-8
Gr 3-5
Listen to podcasts
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
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- 22. Inside today’s classroom
How Students are Using Digital Content for Schoolwork
Create presentations and
media
Play educational games
Conduct virtual
experiments/simulations
Use e-textbooks
Gr 9-12
Access realtime
data/databases Gr 6-8
Gr 3-5
Listen to podcasts
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Gr 6-8: Increase of 41% in use of
e-textbooks from 2010 to 2011
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- 23. Students face obstacles using technology at
school
Top responses from students:
1. School filters and firewalls block websites I need
(59%)
2. I cannot use my mobile device (55%)
3. I cannot access my social networking sites (51%)
4. Too many rules about using technology! (48%)
5. Teachers limit our technology use (42%)
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- 24. How schools could make it easier to use
technology
Students say:
1. Allow greater access to websites I need (72%)
2. Let me use my own mobile device (59%)
3. Give me unlimited Internet access on campus (48%)
4. Allow access to social networking sites (43%)
5. Provide classwork and resources online (41%)
6. Let me recharge my devices (36%)
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- 25. Best use of technology – in what class?
High school students say:
1. English / Language Arts
2. Science
3. Math
4. Social Studies / History
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- 26. What if ….
We asked students to design the ultimate
digital or e-textbook?
What features and functionality would
they desire?
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- 27. Students’ desires for the features and
functionality of digital or e-textbooks
Three themes emerge from the data:
Students want interactivity and relevancy
They want tools to facilitate collaboration
They want ways to personalize learning
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- 28. Students’ desires for the features and
functionality of digital or e-textbooks
Three themes emerge from the data:
Students want interactivity and relevancy
They want tools to facilitate collaboration
They want ways to personalize learning
E-textbook as proxy for the student vision
for a new learning paradigm:
social, un-tethered and digitally rich
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 29. Designing the Ultimate E-Textbook
Socially-based Learning Enabled by the E-Textbook
Communications tools
Collaboration tools
Online tutors
Chat rooms with video
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Gr 6-8 Girl Gr 6-8 Boy Middle School Parents
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- 30. Designing the Ultimate E-Textbook
Engaging Un-tethered Learning with the E-Textbook
Online classes
Self assessments
Mobile apps Middle School Parents
Gr 6-8 Boy
Download to phone Gr 6-8 Girl
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 31. Designing the Ultimate E-Textbook
Empowering Digitally-rich Content through the E-Textbook
Virtual labs
Video clips
Links to real time data
Games
Animations and simulations
Access to 3D content
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Gr 6-8 Girl Gr 6-8 Boy Middle School Parents
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 33. #1 way to get students
more interested and
engaged in science …
according to students
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- 34. What is . . . . ?
1. Having a teacher that is excited about science
2. Creating multi-media presentations of findings
3. Doing real research using online databases
4. Using animations
5. Reading the science textbook
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- 35. What is
doing real
research with
online
databases?
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- 36. Students’ “speak up” about the ultimate math
class
Students say:
Collaborate with classmates on problem solving 52%
Ability to text my teacher with questions 42%
I have a connection with my teacher 42%
My teacher is excited about math 39%
Access to online tutors 35%
Access to online textbooks 32%
Ability to use mobile devices to video problems 31%
Access to online classes 24%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 37. Inside today’s classroom: teachers’ view
Digital Content in the Classroom
Podcasts/Videos
E-Textbooks
Real-time Data
Educational Games
Animations
Virtual Field Trips
Simulations
Teachers: Usage
Virtual Labs
0% 5% 10% 15% 20% 25% 30% 35%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 38. Inside today’s classroom: teachers + librarians
Digital Content in the Classroom
Podcasts/Videos
E-Textbooks
Real-time Data
Educational Games
Animations
Virtual Field Trips
Simulations Librarians: Recommend
Teachers: Usage
Virtual Labs
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 39. Inside today’s classroom: + administrators
Digital Content in the Classroom
Podcasts/Videos
E-Textbooks
Real-time Data
Administrators: Value
Educational Games
Librarians: Recommend
Animations Teachers: Usage
Virtual Field Trips
Simulations
Virtual Labs
0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 40. Teachers & professional development around
digital content use
Teachers’ top recommendations:
1. Access to collection of vetted resources
2. F2F professional development
3. Video clips of teachers’ using digital content
4. Professional learning community @school
5. Online course
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- 41. Benefits of using digital content
Principals’ perspective:
1. Increases student engagement
2. Extends learning beyond the school day
3. Prepares students for world of work
4. Improves teachers’ skills with technology
5. Decreases dependence on publishers
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 42. Given the demand and the interest, what is
standing in the way of greater adoption?
Principals say the most significant barriers are:
1. Lack of technology infrastructure
2. Balancing instructional time constraints
3. Lack of teachers’ skill with using digital content
4. How to evaluate the quality of purchased digital content
5. Locating free, standards aligned digital content
Source: Speak Up 2010 © Project Tomorrow 2011
- 43. What is most important when evaluating quality of
digital content?
Administrators say:
1. Student achievement
(57%)
2. Teacher evaluation (49%)
3. Created by teachers (33%)
4. Certified by ed org (32%)
5. Source is content expert
(32%)
6. Conference demo (28%)
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 44. What is most important when evaluating quality of
digital content?
Administrators say: Teachers say:
1. Student achievement 1. Created by teachers (55%)
(57%) 2. Colleague referral (50%)
2. Teacher evaluation (49%) 3. Teacher evaluation (42%)
3. Created by teachers (33%) 4. Student achievement
4. Certified by ed org (32%) (38%)
5. Source is content expert 5. Certified by ed org (37%)
(32%) 6. Source is content expert
6. Conference demo (28%) (29%)
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 45. What is most important when evaluating quality of
digital content?
Administrators say: Teachers say:
1. Student achievement 1. Created by teachers (55%)
(57%) 2. Colleague referral (50%)
2. Teacher evaluation (49%) 3. Teacher evaluation (42%)
3. Created by teachers (33%) 4. Student achievement
4. Certified by ed org (32%) (38%)
5. Source is content expert 5. Certified by ed org (37%)
(32%) 6. Source is content expert
6. Conference demo (28%) (29%)
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 46. How do parents determine quality for digital resources they
bring into their home?
Quality Factors Parents
1. My child finds the tools engaging 64%
2. Aligned to my child’s curriculum 62%
3. My child’s teacher is using the same tools in the classroom 53%
4. Recommended by my child’s teacher, school librarian or other 48%
educator
5. My child is doing better in school after using similar tools 48%
6. Aligned to content standards (state or national) 41%
7. Our school purchased a license for the tools and allows home 38%
access
8. Developed by an organization with expertise in the field 38%
9. Student achievement results 36%
10. Developed by a classroom teacher 35%
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 47. The Student Vision for Learning
Social–based learning
Un–tethered learning
Digitally–rich learning
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 48. Imagine you are designing the
ultimate school.
Which technology tools and services
would have the greatest positive impact
on learning?
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 49. 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?
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 50. Ultimate School: Are we on the same page?
Ultimate School: Enabling Social Based Learning
Online tutors
Digital media tools
Collaboration tools
In class chat rooms
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60%
Gr 6-8 Students Gr 9-12 Students Parents Administrators
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 51. Ultimate School: Are we on the same page?
Ultimate School: Engaging Un-tethered Learning
Campus wide internet access
Tablets
Online classes
Smart phones
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Gr 6-8 Students Gr 9-12 Students Parents Administrators
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 52. Ultimate School: Are we on the same page?
Ultimate School: Empowering Digitally-rich Learning
Games
Online textbooks
Databases & videos
Virtual reality
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Gr 6-8 Students Gr 9-12 Students Parents Administrators
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 53. What is the bottom line?
Today’s students
want learning that is:
Enabled
Engaging
Empowered
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 54. Key trends we are watching:
• Continuing “digital disconnects”
• Spectrum of digital native-ness
• Multiple “computers” in the backpack
• Adaptation trumps adoption
• Anytime, anyplace, anywhere, any pace
learning
• Developing personal expert networks
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- 55. Key trends we are watching:
• Self directed learning for student & teacher
• Everyone is a content developer
• Make it relevant to me!
• Blurring of informal & formal learning lines
• Beyond engagement: it’s really about
productivity!
• “Long tail” of training & education
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 56. More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org
• National Speak Up Findings and reports
• Speak Up 2011 data: release to participating
districts on Feb 1
• Speak Up 2011 data: national release in April
• Presentations, podcasts and webinars
• Evaluation services & reports
• Speak Up 2012!
© Project Tomorrow 2011
- 57. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
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