1. Top Ten Things Everyone
Should Know about Students
and Digital Learning
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
October 11, 2013
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2. A big thank you to:
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3. 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
+ 3 million surveys since 2003
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4. National Speak Up 2012 Participation: 466,303

K-12 Students
 Teachers & Librarians
 Parents (in English & Spanish)
 School/District Administrators
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364,233
56,346
39,713
6,011
About the participating schools & districts
o 8,020 schools and 2,431 districts
o 30% urban / 43% rural / 27% suburban
o All 50 states + DC
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Honor Roll of States with highest participation:
TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, WI, AZ, FL, PA
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5. Top Ten Things Everyone
Should Know about Students
and Digital Learning
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6. 50% of students in grades 6-12
use the Internet at least
weekly for homework help
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7. 41% of students who have not
taken an online class say they
would like to – to learn at
their own pace
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8. 6 of 10 students say flipped
learning sounds like a good
way to learn
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9. 1/3 of middle school students
say their preference is to read
digital content – rather than
print materials for schoolwork
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10. 29% of students have used a
YouTube video to help with
homework
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11. Texting a teacher in class?
30% of students say they want
to be able to do that – and get
an immediate response
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12. 75% of students K-2nd grade
regularly play educational
online or video games
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13. Student use of Twitter has
increased 3X since 2011 –
today 34% of high student
students tweet regularly
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14. 38% of students are using
Facebook as a school project
collaboration site
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15. Students are multi-mobilists!
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80% of Gr 9-12 have a smartphone
– 45% of Gr 3-5
52% of Gr 6-8 have a tablet
Students prefer different devices
for different academic tasks
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16. More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org
National Speak Up Findings and reports
Targeted and thematic reports
Online learning trends
Mobile learning & social media
Print to digital migration
Social learning
Intelligent adaptive software
New digital parent series
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy studies
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17. A big thank you to:
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18. Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.
Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
and SpeakUpEd
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