Project Tomorrow: Speak Up!Data to Move Your School
Forward
Robert Hindman, PrincipalTaylor Elementary SchoolArlington Public Schools
July 2012
ISTE Student Presenters…Now What?
2009
2011
• http://www.tomorrow.org/ • National K-12 Survey, funded
since 2003• Formerly NET Day• This year: 416,758 online
surveys submitted from K-12 students, parents, teachers and administrators
• This year – provided survey to Canada, Australia and to US Higher Education
• Join and get involved!
Project Tomorrow – Speak Up!
Taylor Involvement
• Participated 2009, 2011
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Questions Asked 2009 and 2011
• K-2 and 3-5• Grade• Gender• Do you know more /
less / about the same as other classmates about technology?
• What tech do you have to use?
Findings – Tools for own use at home
2011 K-2 3-5 National
Cell phone 3% 16% 25%
Smartphone 1% 15% 21%
Computer at home
26% 32% 40%
Tablet / iPad 13% 25% 18%
MP3 / iPod 30% 55% 37%
Video game 64% 75% 67%
2009 3-5 National
Cell phone 15% 28%
Smartphone 12% 16%
Computer at home (desktop)
59% 41%
Tablet / iPad/ Laptop
41% 31%
MP3 / iPod 71% 54%
Video game 74% 63%
Home Computer Use – Then and Now
2009 K-2 3-5 National
- 97% 53%
2011 K-2 3-5 National
81%(71% High Speed
Internet)
96%(67% High
Speed Internet)
90%
How do you use Technology for Schoolwork?
2011 K-2 (%)
National
(%)
3-5
(%)
National
(%)
2009 3-5
(%)
National
(%)
Writing Assignments
51 14 57 37 59 41
PPT 31 12 58 35 53 27
e-mail/ IM/ text friends
23 6 20 12 21 12
Listen to podcasts / books
72 47 18 6 9 7
Learning / educational games
95 74 66 58 62 51
Online tests 63 38 44 37 21 31
Internet Use 68 49 66 51 41 27
Video Use 94 60 33 19 41 27
Online Textbooks - - 62 12 15 10
Barriers from Technology Use at School
2009 20113-5 (%)
National(%)
3-5(%)
National (%)
Computers are not always available
32 38 61 40
Cannot e-mail / IM / text classmates
21 14 16 25
Cannot always use my own cell / smartphone or MP3 player
21 20 18 38
Internet not fast enough
18 10 4 11
Blocked websites 9 13 9 16
Teachers don’t know how to use sites, none of the above or other
32 40 39 39
Emerging Trends
• Online learning
• Social Media
• Bring your Own Devices
• Diminished school funding
• Digital textbooks
K-2 Emerging Trend: Social Media
K-2 (%) National (%)
Do art projects 50 23
Download / listen to music
57 34
Websites for TV 48 27
Virtual worlds / Webkins, Club Penguin
61 32
Play online games 69 52
Share photos 43 10
Update Profiles 59 13
Watch Videos 80 40
Blog / Journal Online 15 3
3-5 Emerging Trend: BYODIf you could use your own device, how would you use it?
3-5 (%) National (%)
Check grades 29 48
Create video / podcasts 38 22
e-mail / text classmates / teachers 47 42
Go to websites or portal (Blackboard)
24 23
Use internet for research 57 53
Get online textbook 61 27
Receive reminders / alerts 43 29
Record a lesson 42 34
Take notes 61 52
Use the calendar feature 49 33
Work on projects collaboratively 62 45
Key Findings – Personalized Learning
• Students are adopting technologies and then adapting them to support their own self-directed learning. For example, 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork.
• Parents are supporting their children’s personalized learning journeys. 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.
Key Findings – Personalized Learning• There is a gap in offerings between what
schools offer and what students want to learn. As a result, students are looking outside of the classroom to meet their personalized learning goals. For example, 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own, outside of the classroom, to learn about a topic that interested them. Beginning with the 9th grade class of 2012-2013, VA is requiring one online class for graduation.
• In math and science classrooms where students and teachers direct learning supported by technology, students’ interest in a STEM career is 27%, compared with 20% for students in traditional math and science classrooms.
Key Findings – Personalized Learning
• Parents’ definition of academic success for their children places a strong emphasis on learning the right skills to be successful (73%)- more than any other metric for success, including monetary success or getting into a good college.
How Are We Using Technology at School?
What should we be preparing for according to this graph?
Do It Yourself Learning…
Are your students using e-mail and social media? If so, how is the school teaching internet safety? Taylor has a Ning we are using with 4th graders to teach social learning skills and instructional behavior – a collaborative project.
Value of Digital Learning
Is your school using digital textbooks and Blackboard as your learning management access?
Going Mobile?
How can we harness personal tools for students at school?
MD Assisted Learning
How can we move from the paper agenda? How can we build access inside and outside of school?
Major Obstacles to Learning?
What shift has to happen with these issues / tools to allow learning to occur?
Imagine a New School…
2009 2011
3-5 (%) National (%) K-2 National 3-5 National
Projectors 53 51 - - - -
Document Cameras 32 33 - - - -
Online Games 41 48 73 54 53 45
Handheld devices (clickers) 44 43 - - 68 47
Interactive Whiteboards 50 45 78 47 87 50
Mobile computer for every student
47 44 69 58 74 60
Birng own Mobile Devices (cell, smartphone, iPad) *combined / provide
44 31 61 / 66(use own)
40 / 48(use own)
*108(use own)
*79(use own)
Online classes 38 36 46 17 50 39
Online Texts 44 40 50 23 70 40
Online Tutors - - 53 18 39 34
Communication tools /portals (customized software)
47 30 109 52 115 71
Organizational tools 50 43 56 23 66 49
Video / sound editing tools 41 32 57 25 55 31
Collaborative tools (Google Docs)
44 34 53 16 61 40
Internet Use Anywhere 44 36 56 46 67 58
Video Conferencing 35 22 - - 44 27
Taylor Students are Ready!
• For continued Internet Safety Instruction
• For instructional social media
• For communication tools (Blackboard / Google…age constraint? Use Gaggle or e-Pals)
• Mobile Devices• 1:1 mobile device initiative• STEM use of all tools
Is Your School Ready?• Participate and Follow your
data on your school’s technology needs
• Use data to inform teachers, parents and community
• Use data to inform budget decisions
• Use data to inform interview questions for specialists and teachers
• Use for comparative information after completing online observation tool to inform teacher
Questions? Registration for Speak Up?
• Contact Rob Hindman, Taylor Principal at [email protected]
• Ena Wood, Taylor ITC at [email protected]