Originally posted by unknown on January 18, 2015
Students have the desire to use the mobile technology as personal learning tools. This article summarizes the findings of Project Tomorrow’s annual (2012) survey, “Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey: K-12 Students and Parents Connect the Dots with Digital Learning”.
Some of the key findings are summarized below:
- 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork. 1 in 4 students has used online videos for homework help.
- 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.
- 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own. Students turn to online resources for support, to pique their curiousity, and to collaborate with others.
- Students also use technology to create presentations and media.
- Students in STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Math) classrooms where technology is used to support learning indicate a 7% higher interest in STEM careers
http://www.eclassroomnews.com/2012/04/26/students-want-personalized-learning-mobile-technology/3/
Both the article and the survey report are worth the read.
I personally found it incredible to see that these were the statistics at the beginning of 2015. The willingness of parents to purchase mobile devices is probably most suprising, but also encouraging, to me.
Twitter as a platform for education, learning, and even professional development has gained a lot interest in the research world has well. Here is just a handful of readings on the topic:
Boukes, M. (2019). Social network sites and acquiring current affairs knowledge: The impact of twitter and facebook usage on learning about the news. Journal of Information Technology & Politics, 16(1), 36-51. doi:10.1080/19331681.2019.1572568
Choo, E. K., Ranney, M. L., Chan, T. M., Trueger, N. S., Walsh, A. E., Tegtmeyer, K., & Carroll, C. L. (2015). Twitter as a tool for communication and knowledge exchange in academic medicine: A guide for skeptics and novices. Medical Teacher, 37(5), 411-416. doi:10.3109/0142159X.2014.993371
Davis, K. (2015). Teachers’ perceptions of twitter for professional development. Disability and Rehabilitation, 37(17), 1551-1558. doi:10.3109/09638288.2015.1052576
Gilbert, S. (2016). Learning in a twitter-based community of practice: An exploration of knowledge exchange as a motivation for participation in #hcsmca. Information, Communication & Society, 19(9), 1214-1232. doi:10.1080/1369118X.2016.1186715
He, Y., Wang, C., & Jiang, C. (2017). Mining coherent topics with pre-learned interest knowledge in twitter. IEEE Access, 5, 10515-10525. doi:10.1109/ACCESS.2017.2696558
Lee, E., & Oh, S. Y. (2013). Seek and you shall find? how need for orientation moderates knowledge gain from twitter use: Twitter and news knowledge. Journal of Communication, 63(4), 745-765. doi:10.1111/jcom.12041
Lowe, R. E. M. (2016). Education all a’twitter: Twitter’s role in educational technology.
Strahler, D. C. (2014). Educators’ perceptions of twitter for educational technology professional development: A uses and gratifications expectancy model.
Original comment by unknown, 19 January 2015
The parent website of this report is a really great resource! This is a research project that has been collecting input on technology in education from students, parents, and educators since 2003. They have a wealth of reports, presentations, webinars, videos, and Twitter chats archived on the site, covering a range of topics too broad to cover here. Although it only gathers information from the US, this site is a definite must in my resource list.