Retreieved from http://www.pewinternet.org/2014/07/23/13-things-to-know-about-teens-and-
technology/
I feel that I have a decent amount of knowledge about the technology out there. Am I an expert? Absolutely not!!! I realize that children, now teens, have grown up in a world very different from my childhood. They were bombarded with technology from the very beginning. How do they use it? What do they know about it that I do know? What can I learn from them? These are all questions that I hoped this study from the Pew Research Center will answer.
The presentation agreed that teens live with tech-saturated lives.
- 95% use internet (3/4 have broadband at home)
- 74% access internet on mobile devices
- 78% have cell phones
- 47% have smartphones
- 80% have desktop/laptop
- 23% have tablet computers
- 81% use social networking sites
- 76% use Facebook
- 24% use Twitter
- 25% use Instagram
- 1 in 7 use Pinterest
- 1 in 10 use Tumblr
Teens today have immediate access to information. They are constantly linked in to data. An online survey of 2,462 Advanced Placement writing teachers found that 77% of the teachers believe that the internet and digital search tools have a mostly positive impact on the students' research work. 87% agree that these technologies are creating an "easily distracted generation with short attention spans." 76% of these teachers agree "the internet enables students to access a wider range of resource that would otherwise be available." While at the same time 76% strongly agree that internet "search engines have conditioned students to expect to be able to find information quickly and easily." It is a yin yang situation. There are positives and negatives with every way you look at the information.
So, what is the future of learning? The old idea is that knowledge is objective and certain. The new train of thought is that knowledge is subjective and provisional. Learners no longer just receive information, but create knowledge.
Overall, everyone has opinions on how technology has affected our children and their ability to learn and how to learn. This is an interested article, but just seeing the slides to the powerpoint was confusing. I would have loved to hear the presentation that went with the information,
55 slides.
You're part of the last generation which started out with limited or no computer use. So it's really a paradigm shift and will be interesting how we meet the challenge.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the article that students are saturated with technology!!
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