Speak Up 2013 Student Findings Congressional Briefing 4/8/2014

Speak Up 2013
National Findings:
K-12 Students
Welcome to this year’s Briefing!
Washington DC - April 8, 2014

Welcome
Julie Evans
Chief Executive Officer
ProjectTomorrow
(c) Project Tomorrow 2014

Welcome
 Julie Evans, Project Tomorrow
 Autumn Taylor, Blackboard
Release of National Findings:
 Today - current uses of digital tools for learning
 Tomorrow – aspirations for digital learning
Discussion with our Panel of Experts – meet
our students!
Your Questions,Thoughts and Comments
Today’s Agenda

Meet our panel of experts
Students from elementary, middle and high schools
from the following school districts:
Baltimore City Public Schools (MD)
Baltimore County Public Schools (MD)
Frederick County Public Schools (MD)
Fairfax County Public Schools (VA)

Thank you!
Senator Patty Murray
Washington State

Many thanks to our K-12 National Champion
Outreach Partners:

Saluting our Speak Up 2013 Sponsors:

Remarks
AutumnTaylor
Director of K-12 Product Marketing
Blackboard, Inc.

What is
Speak Up?
Key
report
highlights
Student
ideas

Annual national research project
 Using online surveys + focus groups
 Surveys for: K-12 Students,Teachers, Parents,
Administrators, Community Members
 Special: Pre-ServiceTeachers in Schools of Education
 Open for all K-12 schools and schools of education
 Schools, districts & colleges receive free report with
their own data
Inform policies, plans & programs
 Local: your stakeholder data
 State: state level data
 Federal: national findings
Speak Up National Research Project
+ 3.4 million
surveys since
2003

K-12 Students 325,279
Teachers & Librarians 32,151
Parents (in English & Spanish) 39,986
School/District Administrators 4,530
Community Members (new this year!) 1,346
About the participating schools & districts
o 9,005 schools and 2,710 districts
o 90% public schools – 10% private/parochial/charter/other
o 32% urban / 31% rural / 37% suburban
o 30% school wide Title 1; 43% majority minority school
o All 50 states + DC + Guam + DODEA schools
National Speak Up 2013 Participation: 403,292

Why do schools and districts participate in
Speak Up?
.
 Power of local data
 Use data as input for planning
 To justify budget and purchasing decisions
 Inform new initiatives – as an evaluation tool
 As a tool to engage parents
 Use for grant writing and fund development
 Content for professional development
 As a competitive tool
 To counteract mythology . . . . . . .

Commonly heard ed tech mythology
“New teachers don’t need any training in how to use
technology within teaching”
“Parents won’t accept online textbooks”
“Online learning undercuts the role of the
teacher in learning.”
“There is so much great content online for teachers to use in
the classroom – so, what is the problem?”
“Just put technology XYZ in the classroom and magically
students will learn more!”

Let’s test your ed tech myth knowledge!
Warm Up Game:

 Majority of students are Facebook regulars.
 Students in urban communities are less careful
about their digital footprint than students in other
communities
 Girls don’t see games as learning tools
 Tablets are the #1 digital tool that students want to
use in school

Lens for this year’s analysis
Grade level
Gender
Title 1 school
Community type
Technology self-assessment
Do these characteristics make a difference?

The New Digital Learning Playbook:
Current uses of technology
Four types of technology usage by students:
 In school:
o teacher directed
o student self – initiated
 Out of school time:
o supporting schoolwork
o supporting personal learning

Digital Activity
Elementary
School
Grades 3-5
Middle
School
Grades 6-8
High
School
Grades
9-12
Access class information
through online portal 31% 68% 75%
Take tests online 44% 47% 52%
Use online textbooks 14% 32% 37%
Watch teacher created
videos 14% 22% 22%
Students’ Use of Teacher-Facilitated Technology
in the Classroom

in the Classroom
Student access to tablets and laptops in class?
Gr 3-5 31%
Gr 6-8 31%
Gr 9-12 33%

in the Classroom
Student access to tablets and laptops in class
But can you take it home?
Gr 3-5 31% YES: 75%
Gr 6-8 31% YES: 58%
Gr 9-12 33% YES: 64%

Digital Activity
Girls Boys
Advanced
Tech User
Average or
Beginner
Tech User
Advanced
Tech
User
Average or
Beginner
Tech User
Text with classmates 75% 73% 66% 60%
Take photos of
assignments using
mobile device
57% 49% 44% 35%
Find videos to help
with homework
51% 41% 43% 32%
Use Facebook to
collaborate on
projects
43% 35% 33% 24%
Skype or iChat with
classmates
36% 28% 33% 21%
High School Student-initiated Use of
Technology to Support Schoolwork

DigitalWriting Activities Girls Boys
Essays and school reports 75% 60%
Email 58% 49%
Creative writing, journaling and
poetry
46% 31%
Captions for photos 40% 26%
Instant messaging or online chats 39% 30%
Text for social media sites 36% 26%
Blogging 31% 20%
Text for multi-media presentations 31% 24%
Tweets 31% 22%
Gaming conversational text 14% 28%
HTML coding 14% 19%
High School Students’ Digital Writing
Activities (Advanced Technology Users)

High School Students’ Digital Writing
Activities (Advanced Technology Users)
Hours spend writing per week:
All students in grades 9-12: 14 hours average
High school girls: 15 hours
Advanced tech using girls: 17 hours

21%
50%
73%
89%
41%
62%
66%
66%
41%
58%
61%
50%
18%
39%
48%
39%
Gr K-2
Gr 3-5
Gr 6-8
Gr 9-12
Digital Reader Tablet Laptop Smartphone
K-12 Students’ Personal Access to Mobile
Devices

Home
Internet
Access
Gr 6-8
Students
Out of School Internet Access – redefining
digital divide
10%
4%
56%
71%
57%
63%
Title 1 Schools Non-Title 1 Schools
The computer I use at home does not have Internet
access
The computer I use at home has broadband Internet
access
I access the Internet primarily thru a wifi or 3G/4G
mobile device

Social media:
tools to connect, collaborate, create
Texting:
2/3rds of students Gr 6-12
(growth of 37% since 2008)
Twitter:
28% of students in Gr 9-12
Creating videos:
only 15% in 2007

Massively multi-player
online games (MMOG)
¼ of students in Gr 6-8
Facebook
decrease of 41% since 2007
Social media:
tools to connect, collaborate, create

15%
18%
31%
40%
49%
56%
13%
21%
22%
38%
50%
46%
Tweeted about an academic topic
Found an expert online to answer questions
Used online writing tools
Watched a video to help with homework
Played an online game to learn something
Researched a website to learn more about
a topic
Boys Girls
Middle School Students’ Use of Digital Tools for
Self-Directed Learning Outside of School
(Advanced Technology Users)

Digital Footprint Actions
Gender CommunityType
Girls Boys Urban Sub Rural
I am careful about posting and
texting information about myself
or others
52% 41% 46% 44% 48%
I have advised friends to not post
certain things about me or
others
34% 25% 30% 28% 30%
I have stopped interacting with
someone based upon their
online profile
29% 20% 24% 23% 26%
I use digital footprints to find
people to connect with
12% 12% 13% 12% 12%
I think it is important to have a
positive online profile
38% 27% 32% 31% 33%
High School Students’ Views on their Digital
Footprint

The New Digital Learning Playbook:
Aspirations for Digital Learning
Student vision
o Improving use of technology at school
o Creating the ultimate school

Social–based learning
Un–tethered learning
Digitally–rich learning
Students & Digital Learning
Personalized
learning
Student Vision for Digital Learning

ImprovedTechnology Use Solutions
Students in
Grades 6-8
Students
in Grades
9-12
Allow greater access to websites I need
for learning
63% 68%
Let me use my own mobile device 55% 51%
Let me recharge my mobile device 42% 43%
Provide schoolwide Internet access 46% 42%
Provide access to my social media 35% 39%
Provide 24/7 access to my teachers 28% 28%
Provide me with a mobile device to use
at school (if I cannot use my own)
33% 21%
Students’ Ideas for Improving Technology
Use at School

“Imagine you are designing the
ultimate school for today’s
students, what technologies would
have the greatest impact on
learning?”
Favorite Speak Up Question:
Superintendents & School Boards

.
0% 10% 20% 30% 40% 50% 60% 70% 80%
Online classes
Tablets
E-textbooks
Games
Schoolwide Internet
Principals Teachers Parents Gr 6-8 students
Do we have a shared vision around digital
solutions?

 Majority of students are Facebook regulars.
 Students in urban communities are less careful
about their digital footprint than students in other
communities
 Girls don’t see games as learning tools
 Tablets are the #1 digital tool that students want to
use in school
All part of ed tech mythology!

Speak Up Goes to
Washington, DC
National Release of Speak Up 2013 National Findings
2014 Congressional Briefing:
Impact of Digital Learning Tools to Support
College and Career Readiness
Monday, June 2, 2014 from 2-3:30PM
Rayburn House Office Building, Gold Room

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
Speak Up 2014 opens in October
More Speak Up? www.tomorrow.org

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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