Digital Content within Instruction - Views of Ohio’s K-12 Students, Parents, Teachers and Administrators

Ohio “Speaks Up” series

Digital Content &
Social Media
Views of Ohio’s K-12 Students,
Parents, Teachers and
Administrators
Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow CEO
Speak Up 2012 Results
April 11, 2013
(c) Project Tomorrow 2013

Big Questions

What are the expectations of Ohio’s K-12 students
for using digital content and social media within
learning?

How does that student vision compare with the
teachers’ & administrators’ reality?

What is the unique parent perspective on the use of
digital content and social media?

How well are our K-12 schools meeting the
expectations of students? Do we have a shared
vision for digital learning?


Discussion Agenda

 Speak Up National Research Project
 Student Vision for Digital Content & Social
Media within Learning
 Parent, Teacher & Administrator Perspective
 Discussion with you!

Speak Up 2012 National & Ohio Findings
Views of K-12 Students, Teachers,
Parents and Administrators


Project Tomorrow, a national
education nonprofit organization
Programs:

• Research & evaluation studies
• School and community programs
• Events for students

Mission: To ensure that today’s
students are prepared to become
tomorrow’s leaders, innovators and
engaged citizens of the world.


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

Speak Up survey question themes
 Learning & Teaching with Technology

 21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship & Global Awareness

 Math and Science Instruction

 Students’ Career Interests in STEM

 Professional Development / Teacher Preparation

 Internet Safety

 Administrators’ Challenges

 Emerging Technologies both in & out of the Classroom
 Mobile Devices, Online & Blended Learning,
 Digital Content, E-textbooks, Educational Games, Social Media
applications, Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital
 Online Assessments
 Designing the 21st Century School


Speak Up survey question themes
 Learning & Teaching with Technology
 21st Century Skills: Digital Citizenship & Global Awareness
 Math and Science Instruction
 Students’ Career Interests in STEM
 Professional Development / Teacher Preparation
 Internet Safety
 Administrators’ Challenges
 Emerging Technologies both in & out of the Classroom
 Mobile Devices, Online Learning, Digital Content, E-textbooks
 Educational Games, Social Media tools and applications
 Flipped Classroom, Print to Digital, Online Assessments
 Designing the 21st Century School

Activities Value Propositions Aspirations


National Speak Up 2012 Participation: 466,303

 K-12 Students 364,233
 Teachers & Librarians 56,346
 Parents (in English & Spanish) 39,713
 School/District Administrators 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

 Honor Roll of States with highest participation:

TX, CA, OH, IN, AL, NC, WI, AZ, FL, PA

Ohio Speak Up 2012 Participation: 53,834

 K-12 Students 27,999

 Teachers & Librarians 17,974

 Parents 6,230

 School/District Administrators 1,631


Too many surveys!


What can the Speak Up
findings tell us about the
future of learning?


Speak Up National Findings: 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
 Students want a more personalized learning
environment


The New Student Vision for Learning

Social–based learning
Personalized
Un–tethered learning
Learning
Digitally–rich learning



Social–based learning Digital Content
Un–tethered learning + Social Media
Digitally–rich learning



Key Trends:

 Online and Blended
Learning (Mar 18)

 Mobile Learning (Apr 2)

 Digital Content &
Social Media (Apr 11)

“Speak Up Snack”

Be a Speak Up Analyst!

Your assignment:
 Debunk myths
 Uncover hidden digital divides
 Evaluate your vision
 Do you have a shared vision of
the future?



Key Trends: Digital Content & Social Media


Ohio students’ use of digital resources for
schoolwork

Watch teacher created videos

Watch online videos

Use online textbook

Post to blogs or wikis

Play educational games

Create multi-media presos

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%
Gr 9-12 Gr 6-8 Gr 3-5


Ohio teachers and technology

How often do you assign Internet-based homework?

40%

27%

20% Ohio teachers

9%

2%

Never Few times Once a Once a Almost
a year month week daily


Comparing Ohio student and teacher values
Students, how often do you access Internet
content to help you with homework?


Comparing Ohio student and teacher values
Students, how often do you access Internet content to help
you with homework?

40%
38%

33%
30%
27%
25%
23%
20%

15%
13%

8% 9% 9%

4%
2%

Never Few times a Once a month Once a week Almost daily
year
Gr 6-8 Gr 9-12 Teachers


Social media for learning

Student “DIY Learning” at work ….
 17% have sent out a Tweet about an academic topic

 14% have taken an online class they found on their own

 1 in 5 took an online assessment to find out how they
compared to other students

 1/4 have used a mobile app to help organize their school
work

 29% have used a video that they found online to help them
with homework (i.e. Kahn Academy effect)

 30% have sought homework help thru their Facebook site;
38% regularly use Facebook as a collaboration site

Ohio parents are social media users also

 87% send text messages to others

 58% regularly update a social networking site

 40% use Skype or iChat to communicate

 35% download and watch videos from the Internet

 28% play mobile games

 18% are part of an online community

 14% tweet or follow others on Twitter


Ohio parents are social media users also

 87% send text messages to others

38% of Ohio parents want to
receive text messages from their
child’s teacher or school
to their mobile device


Teachers: what digital content are you using?

Types used in the classroom: Nat’l OHIO

 Videos found online 47% 46%
 Games 30% 28%
 Skill-based software 30% 27%
 Online textbooks 21% 19%
 Animations 20% 17%
 Online curriculum 21% 14%
 Real time data 20% 11%


New question area for Speak Up this year –
who is flipping?

Experience with flipped learning OH OH
Teachers Principals
(about their
teachers)
Did this – with my own videos 5% 23%
Did this – with online videos 2% 17%
I’m interested in this 16% 25%
Concern: student home access 52% 50%
Concern: need PD in creating videos 25% 34%
Concern: need PD in finding videos 24% 33%
Concern: need PD in what to do in class 19% 32%


And what do students think?

Good way for me to learn!

Ohio Students Gr 9-12 66%

Ohio Students Gr 6-8 56%


Ohio students and science class

What tech tools would improve science
class? Your middle school students say:

1. Educational science games 48%
2. Creating videos of lessons 42%
3. Using online textbooks 39%
4. Simulations & animations 37%
5. Using real time data 30%


Ohio teachers and games

What are the benefits of using games within
instruction?

1. Increases student engagement 76%
2. Addresses different learning styles 66%
3. Differentiates instruction 58%
4. Reinforces skills/practice skills 54%
5. Use to support difficult concepts 46%


Ohio administrators and digital content

Benefits of digital content
• Increases student engagement
• Extends learning
• Decreases dependence on textbook publishers
• Provides way to personalize learning
• Increases relevancy of class materials


Ohio administrators and digital content

Benefits of digital content
• Increases student engagement
• Extends learning
• Decreases dependence on textbook publishers
• Provides way to personalize learning
• Increases relevancy of class materials

Challenges of digital content
• Providing Internet-access computers
• Time priorities and balancing
• Teacher training
• Evaluating quality of digital content
• Providing enough bandwidth

Evaluating digital content quality

Student achievement results

Teacher evaluated

No ads

Referred by a colleague

Created by teachers

Content is research based

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%

OH Admininistrators Ohio Teachers


Evaluating bandwidth capacity

OH District National
Administrators District
Administrators
All is good with 16% 15%
our bandwidth
We worry about 63% 66%
future problems
with our
bandwidth
We have problems 11% 12%
right now


If we had enough bandwidth we would ….

Ohio administrators say:

1. Increase use of multi-media/video in our classes 51%
2. Better utilization of online curriculum 49%
3. Provide more online PD 32%
4. Provide campus wide Internet access 30%
5. Provide online classes for students and
implement online teacher and staff PLCs 29%


Imagine you are designing the ultimate
school for today’s students,
what technologies would have the
greatest impact on learning?

Do we have a shared vision
for digital content and
social media?

Do we have a shared vision for digital learning
in Ohio?

Virtual reality

Texting

Social media tools

E-textbooks

Games

Chat rooms for class

0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70%

District Admin Principals Parents Teachers Students


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
Pre-service teachers view – NEW!
Presentations, podcasts and webinars
Services: consulting, workshops, evaluation and efficacy
studies


Next up for us

National 2012 Speak Up Reports
◦ Congressional Briefings in DC

◦ Reports available on our website

◦ April 19 and June 4

New targeted reports
◦ Online learning trends report
◦ New Digital Parent series
◦ Print to digital migration research
◦ And several more new reports
◦ Sign up to get our alerts


More Speak Up for Ohio

Your questions or comments


Thank you.
Let’s continue this conversation.

Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
jevans@tomorrow.org
949-609-4660 x15
Twitter: JulieEvans_PT
SpeakUpEd

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