Part 1 of a two-part series on how the ever-evolving world of technology is having an impact on the classroom and how students ultimately learn new materials. This presentation contains the first 5 ways technology are helping students in the classroom
2. With the ever evolving
landscape of technology:
• schools and learning are starting to change the ways of
the past
• not so long ago, blackboards and notebooks ruled in
education
• being that technology is so readily available to students
• the ways students receive and maintain information has
changed
• video homework and mobile computing is at all time high
3. Personal Access to Mobile
Device
• Roughly 89 percent of high
school students have access
to a smart phone
• 50 percent of students
between grades 3 to 5 have
smart phones
• 50 percent of high school
students have tablets
• 60 percent of high school
students own a laptop
4. Internet Connectivity
• Statistics for the ways students connect to the internet
when at home:
• 64 percent said that they use either 3G or 4G
• A whooping 23 percent use either an Internet-enabled
TV or a WII console
5. Use Of Video For Classwork and Homework
Even though the study was conducted for students, Julie Evans discovered that 46% of
teachers are now using videos in the classroom to help students learn topics and materials
6. Mobile Devices for
Schoolwork
• Students are now using their
mobile device to be more
efficient in day-to-day tasks
• 60 percent use mobile
devices to do research
• 43 percent use it for
educational games
• 40 percent use it to help them
collaborate with fellow peers
for group projects and
assignments
7. Using Different
Tools For
Different Tasks
Evans noted that “We find them
using video social media and cell
phones for communications; they
use e-readers for reading text and
articles; they write, take notes and do
research on laptops, But, where does
this leave tablets?”