Personalizing the Classroom Experience – Teachers, Librarians and Administrators Connects the Dots with Digital Learning
Speak Up 2011 National Findings K-12 Educators
May 2012
Personalizing the Classroom Experience – Teachers, Librarians and Administrators Connects the Dots with Digital Learning is the second in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2011. This report focuses on how today’s educators are personalizing the learning process for students. The ways that educators are personalizing learning centers around their own experiences with online learning, socially-based media and digital content - much like the students in their own classrooms are already doing! The key questions being addressed in this report include:
- What are educators’ experiences with online learning?
- How does it inform their perspectives on student learning?
- What policies and practices are administrators considering around the “Bring Your Own Technology” movement?
- How do we transform the classroom from a “one size fits all” model to a truly individualized learning experience for students?
Key Findings from this year’s report include:
- 20% of district administrators regularly use Twitter to communicate with others
- Teachers, librarians and administrators are turning to online classes to support their professional development. More than half of the teachers and principals (52 percent) said they have taken an online class for training purposes and almost two-thirds of district level administrators (65 percent) as well. This represents a significant shift in the past five years especially for teachers; in 2007 only 21 percent of teachers had taken an online PD course at that time.
- Much like their students, educators are going online to meet their professional development needs- 40% of teachers, and 50% of Principals use online professional learning communities.
- Administrators see technology as a solution to decreased district budgets. Over a quarter of district administrators (27 percent) identified the option “students use their own mobile device in class” as a technology solution they are exploring to mitigate the impact of decreased budget funds for education technology
- Educators increasingly recognize the value of incorporating digital content into their schools and classrooms, with 74% of administrators reporting that digital content increases student engagement and 50% reporting that it helps to personalize instruction.
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To download a copy of the first report on Student and Parent data please click here.
If you think this data is interesting and would like to gain a better understanding about your stakeholders’ perspectives about the use of technology for learning, participate in Speak Up 2012. The online surveys will be open from early October to mid December 2012 with survey results available to participating schools and districts in February 2013.
Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey – K-12 Students and Parents Connect the Dots with Digital Learning
Speak Up 2011 National Findings K-12 Students & Parents
April 2012
Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey – K-12 Students and Parents Connects the Dots with Digital Learning is the first in a two part series to document the key national findings from Speak Up 2011. This report focuses on how today’s students are personalizing their own learning, and how their parents are supporting this effort. The ways that students are personalizing their learning centers around three student desires including how students seek out resources that are digitally-rich, untethered and socially-based. The key questions being addressed in this report include:
How are students personalizing their learning?
- How are parents helping students to personalize their learning journey?
- What are the digitally-rich, untethered and socially based learning strategies that facilitate this process?
- How can education stakeholders support students as they seek to personalize their learning?
- What are the gaps between administrators’ views of personalized learning compared to parents’ and students’ views?
Key Findings from this year’s report include:
- Students are adopting technologies and then adapting them to support their own self-directed learning. For example, 1 in 10 high school students have Tweeted about an academic topic. 46% of students have used Facebook as a collaboration tool for schoolwork.
- Parents are supporting their children’s personalized learning journeys. 64% of parents report that they would purchase a mobile device for their child’s academic use at school.
- There is a gap in offerings between what schools offer and what students want to learn. As a result, students are looking outside of the classroom to meet their personalized learning goals. For example, 12% of high school students have taken an online class on their own, outside of the classroom, to learn about a topic that interested them.
- In math and science classrooms where students and teachers direct learning supported by technology, students’ interest in a STEM career is 27%, compared with 20% for students in traditional math and science classrooms.
- Parents’ definition of academic success for their children places a strong emphasis on learning the right skills to be successful (73%)- more than any other metric for success, including monetary success or getting into a good college.
Click here to download the PDF of the report.
Click here to view the report in HTML.
Click here to download accompanying infographic.
If you think this data is interesting and would like to gain a better understanding about your stakeholders’ perspectives about the use of technology for learning, participate in Speak Up 2012. The online surveys will be open from early October to mid December 2012 with survey results available to participating schools and districts in February 2013.
March 26, 2008
Panel Discussion
Advanced Online Learning Conference
Nashua, NH
Radisson Hotel Nashua
11 Tara Boulevard
Nashua, NH 03062
Phone (603) 888-9970
1:30 pm - 2:30 pm - Luncheon Panel
Advancing Online Learning Conference hosted by Virtual High School Global Consortium. Julie Evans, CEO will be part of a panel discussion on April 11th, 2008. Other panelists include: Susan A. Gendron – Commissioner of Education and Allison Powell
March 11, 2008
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
At Washington National Airport
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Telephone: 703.418.1234
8:30am - 9:15 am
How Technology Helps Address the Long Tail Problem in Education
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Business Leadership
Efficiency requires that teachers spend most of their time teaching in ways that are most effective to the largest number of students. As a result, schools traditionally teach to the head of the long tail of student learning. To leave no child behind, however, requires that we address the learning needs of each individual student. This introduction to the long tail philosophies, within the context of student ideas on technology in education, will help school leaders develop the vision necessary to address the individualized learning needs of the students of today and tomorrow.
- Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow - NetDay
- Karen Henke, Consultant, Nimble Press
- Holly Sagues, Chief Information Officer, Florida Virtual School
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
At Washington National Airport
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Telephone: 703.418.1234
8:30am - 9:15 am
T103: How Technology Helps Address the Long Tail Problem in Education
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Business Leadership
Efficiency requires that teachers spend most of their time teaching in ways that are most effective to the largest number of students. As a result, schools traditionally teach to the head of the long tail of student learning. To leave no child behind, however, requires that we address the learning needs of each individual student. This introduction to the long tail philosophies, within the context of student ideas on technology in education, will help school leaders develop the vision necessary to address the individualized learning needs of the students of today and tomorrow.
Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow - NetDay
Karen Henke, Consultant, Nimble Press
Holly Sagues, Chief Information Officer, Florida Virtual School
March 10, 2008
CoSN Conference
Arlington, VA
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
At Washington National Airport
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Telephone: 703.418.1234
Envisioning 21st Century Learning - New Research from State and Local Perspectives
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Planning and Budgeting, Business Leadership
Visionary leadership in the area of educational technology is often an elusive goal for both states and local education agencies. This session will examine the results of two research projects that address this challenge from different perspectives. One project chronicles the leadership role of New York’s Council for Technology Policy and Practice, which is advising the state’s education department in the development of a statewide technology policy. From the second project, we will learn about the results of the first ever Speak Up surveys for school leaders to better understand how school- and district-level leaders are envisioning the ultimate school for 21st century learners.
- Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow - NetDay
- Cheryl Lemke, President and Chief Executive Officer, Metiri Group
- Ellen Meier, EdD, Associate Professor of Practice, Math, Science and Technology, Columbia University-Teachers College
March 4, 2008
CoSN Conference
Arlington, VA
Hyatt Regency Crystal City
At Washington National Airport
2799 Jefferson Davis Highway
Arlington, VA 22202
Telephone: 703.418.1234
M402: Envisioning 21st Century Learning - New Research from State and Local Perspectives
Essential Skills: Leadership and Vision, Planning and Budgeting, Business Leadership
Visionary leadership in the area of educational technology is often an elusive goal for both states and local education agencies. This session will examine the results of two research projects that address this challenge from different perspectives. One project chronicles the leadership role of New York’s Council for Technology Policy and Practice, which is advising the state’s education department in the development of a statewide technology policy. From the second project, we will learn about the results of the first ever Speak Up surveys for school leaders to better understand how school- and district-level leaders are envisioning the ultimate school for 21st century learners.
- Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer, Project Tomorrow - NetDay
- Cheryl Lemke, President and Chief Executive Officer, Metiri Group
- Ellen Meier, EdD, Associate Professor of Practice, Math, Science and Technology, Columbia University-Teachers College
