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IAS > My Day > Posts > Project Tomorrow - 2008 findings on "digital disconnect"

7/15/2009

Project Tomorrow - 2008 findings on "digital disconnect"
Check out the 2008 findings from the folks at Project Tomorrow -- the "digital disconnect" between kids, teachers and parents still flourishes. 
 

http://www.slideshare.net/ProjectTomorrow/web-20-applications-at-home-and-school

Expectations and assumptions about the use of Web 2.0 technologies are still very different between
- students, parents and teachers (sometime as much as 50% difference),
- advanced tech students and other students,
- girls and boys, and, 
- older and younger students. 

chart
It wasn't a surprise for those of us watching the trends, but students in K-12 grades want to use Web2.0 tools for schoolwork - for communications, creation, collaboration and contribution. The students said the #1 tech tool or service that impacts their learning (and there were Kentucky schools in the data) were: 
a. digital media tools for creating projects
b. games and virtual simulations
c. personal laptops for each student
d. student access to email and IM at school
e. using mobil devices (cellphones, MP3 players and PDAs)
f. online classes
g. collaboration tools such as blogs, social networking sites, wikis

When asked what were the major obstacles students face using these technologies at school, the top responses were: school filters/firewalls, teachers limiting use of technology, too many rules (cannot use my own devices, access my communication tools, or too many rules limiting use of my school’s technology).

I got to hear the CEO's presentation a couple of years ago (see my blog post from 2007 on this) - and Kentucky schools were a part of the data then. This year's analysis included Kentuckians from Callaway County - see info on schools and families' participation here: http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/speakup_200.html.

Posted at 4:04 PM by Hollingsworth, Randolph | Category: July 2009 | Permalink | Email this Post | Comments (0)

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