Teaching 2.0: Is Tech In The Classroom Worth The Cost?
A conversation featuring our Kristen Purcell, Pew Internet Associate Director for Research. For more context, visit our recent report: How Teachers Are Using Technology at Home and in Their Classrooms
NEW REPORT ON TEACHERS & TECH: A survey of teachers shows that digital tools are widely used in their classrooms and professional lives. Yet, many of these middle and high school teachers are hampered by disparities in student access to digital technologies. (http://pewrsr.ch/Z19l8r) Here’s a look at what technologies teachers use, and what techs they are bringing into the classroom.
(Source: pewinternet.org)
The perceived impact of the internet on student research, in a word:
“Overall, what would you say is the most POSITIVE aspect of students today being able to conduct research online?
A survey of Advanced Placement & National Writing Project teachers finds that teens’ research habits are changing in the digital age. They say the internet & digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research work, but are creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans”. Check out the full, detailed report, out today: http://pewrsr.ch/Ujc6yh
(Source: pewinternet.org)
Bricks and clicks: The Internet and higher education in 2020
In the Pew Internet/Elon University survey of 1,021 Internet experts, researchers, observers and users, 60% agreed with a statement that by 2020 “there will be mass adoption of teleconferencing and distance learning to leverage expert resources … a transition to ‘hybrid’ classes that combine online learning components with less-frequent on-campus, in-person class meetings.” Some 39% agreed with an opposing statement that said, “in 2020 higher education will not be much different from the way it is today.”
What do you think? What will universities look like in 2020?
Oprah To Join Lady Gaga at Harvard to Launch The Born This Way Foundation
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The two will be making an appearance on Wednesday, February 29th, in Harvard’s Sanders Theatre, and will be joined by other special guests, including author Deepak Chopra; U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services, Kathleen Sebelius; and Harvard Law School professor Charles Ogletree, according to a press release. Together, they’ll unveil the new nonprofit focused on “youth empowerment and issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development.”
by danah boyd, Eszter Hargittai, Jason Schultz, and John Palfrey, First Monday.
You can read the full article at the link above, or read danah’s blog post summarizing the results at the Digital Media and Learning Blog.
Gaga launches foundation with MacArthur, Harvard
NEW YORK—Lady Gaga is launching a foundation with the help of the MacArthur Foundation and Harvard University.
The Grammy-winning singer announced Wednesday that she is launching the Born This Way Foundation, a nonprofit focusing on youth empowerment and “issues like self-confidence, well-being, anti-bullying, mentoring and career development.”
Gaga’s partners include the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, The California Endowment and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University.
The students…they’re getting smarter.
Data note: One of our recent teens reports found that half of teens send 50 or more text messages a day, or 1,500 texts a month, and one in three send more than 100 texts a day, or more than 3,000 texts a month.
However, when it comes to possession of a mobile phone during the school day, just 12% of teens with cell phones say that they can have a cell phone at their school at all times. A majority of teens (62%) say that they can have a cell phone at school but not in class, and another quarter (24%) attend schools that forbid cell phones altogether.
*** Update: You can also read some great liveblogs of his talk here and here. ***
Our director, Lee Rainie, gave a keynote address today at the Internet Librarian conference, in which he examined the potential role librarians can play in “learning communities”—both physical and virtual. He looked at five questions that libraries face as they consider their role in communities:
1) What is the future of knowledge?
2) What is the future of reference expertise?
3) What is the future of public technology?
4) What is the future of learning spaces?
5) What is the future of community anchor institutions?
You can watch a video of his talk above or on UStream, and his slides are available to download in Powerpoint or as a PDF.
We are conducting our new survey about the future of the internet now and we’d love you to participate as a respondent. You can take the survey here.
The survey is similar in format to our previous work. We ask experts and avid followers of the internet to answer questions about alternative scenarios for the way technology will evolve and affect people over the next decade. After you’ve chosen a scenario, we hope you’ll explain your answer more elaborately by completing a narrative portion of the survey.
In all, we hope the survey will take 15-20 minutes to complete. And we hope you’ll like it enough to recommend it to your friends!
Want more? You can also read through previous “Future of the internet” reports on our website and at imaginingtheinternet.org.
(Source: elon.edu)
Our new report covers online learning in higher ed, but there’s another report out today with data about K-12 online learners: Click here to download the PDF.
We’ve got a great new Pew Research Center report out today about college presidents and how they view the tech in the classroom—both today and in the coming years. This report cover everything from the perceptions of the public and college presidents about the value of online learning, the prevalence and future of online courses, use of digital textbooks, the internet and plagiarism, and technology use in the classroom, as well as college presidents’ own use of technology.
For instance: About half of college presidents (51%) say an online course provides an equal educational value to one taken in a classroom; just three-in-ten American adults (29%) agree. (Do you?)
More than three-quarters of college presidents (77%) report that their institutions now offer online courses, and college presidents predict substantial growth in online learning: 15% say most of their current undergraduate students have taken a class online, 50% predict that ten years from now most of their students will take classes online.
Other findings include:
The report is based on findings from two Pew Research Center surveys: a national poll of the general public, and a survey of college presidents done in association with The Chronicle of Higher Education. You and read or download the full report here: http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/College-presidents.aspx
College? There’s an App for That
In the spring of 2008, John Katzman, the founder of the Princeton Review, approached the Masters of Arts in Teaching (MAT) program at at the University of Southern California with a revolutionary idea. USC could increase its graduates by a factor of ten without building another room.
Every year, California adds 10,000 new teachers. And every year until 2008, USC graduated about 100. The school felt “invisible.” How could it build influence without new buildings? Katzman said his new project, 2tor, Inc, an education technology company, promised a solution. Forget the brick and mortar, and go online, he said. USC was skeptical. Surely, no Web program could possibly deliver an in-classroom quality of instruction.
Katzman disagreed. I have something to show you, he said.
Children’s Magazines Cater to True Early Adopters with Mobile Apps | PBS
Digital magazines designed for kids are giving new meaning to the phrase “early adopter.” Children’s magazines have come a long way from those dusty print editions at the pediatrician’s office. While adults struggle to join the transition to digital magazines and apps, their offspring are moving seamlessly into the new age of publishing. Kids now have a variety of digital publications and related apps at their fingertips on the iPad and other devices. (continues)
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