Presented at the EDUCAUSE Midwest Regional Conference, May 15th, 2011
http://www.educause.edu/midwest-regional-conference/2011/exploring-mobile-technologies
7. 1. Extremely
awesome
2. Somewhat
awesome
3. Somewhat not
awesome
4. Extremely not
awesome
8.
9.
10. According to Joosten (2009), 71% of
students want to receive text
messages about their class
(http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz).
According to PEW Interent, “the typical
American teen sends and receives
50 or more messages per day,
or 1,500 per month.”
11.
12. According to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “…They go to
social networking sites 5 days per
week and check in 4 times a day for
a total of an hour per day” (para 7).
According to PEW Internet study, “…Nearly
three-quarters (72%) of online 18-
29 year olds use these sites–similar to
the rate among teens–with 45% doing so on a
typical day” (http://tinyurl.com/33hynyx).
In 2004 a study at UW system reported that the majority of students do not want their personal media convoluted with course-related media5 years later in 2009, that has changedSTUDENTS WANT SOCIAL MEDIAPreliminary research conducted (see http://tinyurl.com/yafu8qz) indicates to us that the majority of students would like to receive communication about their course via text messaging and that the majority of students are on Facebook where they communicate most often.
STUDENTS USE SOCIAL MEDIA OFTENAccording to Bulik (July 8th, 2009) “Out of the 110 million Americans (or 60% of the online population) who use social networks, the average social networking user logs on to these sites quite a bit. They go to social networking sites 5 days per week and check in 4 times a day for a total of an hour per day. Nine percent of that group stay logged in all day long and are ‘constantly checking what's new’” (para 7).