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twtpoll :: What do you want to talk about during this weeks (12/8) #edchat? (via @web20classroom)
Great use of twtpoll for ongoing, online, collaborative professional development. Could also use with students as comprehension check, way for students to have more voice in their learning, etc.
The National Geographic — Roper Public Affairs 2006 Geographic Literacy Study
2006 Survey of 18-24 continental U.S. young adults designed to find out about their knowledge of geography.
Survey finds smart phones transforming mobile lifestyles of college students
Hanley's latest study is part of his continued research into the mobile communication habits of young adults. He has conducted surveys of 4,907 college students twice annually since 2005, finding that:
Text messaging has overtaken e-mail and IM as the main form of communication as 94 percent of students send and receive text messages.
About 62 percent of students admitted to texting while in class.
Students use cell phones to keep in touch with family and friends with 59 percent texting, 17 percent using voice, 9 percent sending IMs and 7 percent using e-mail.
Cell phone camera usage has surged, with 72 percent of respondents reporting that they take and send photographs via their cell phone, up from 30 percent in 2005.
About 39 percent take and send video using their cell phone, up from 4 percent in 2005.
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- Text messaging has overtaken e-mail and IM as the main form of communication as 94 percent of students send and receive text messages.
About 62 percent of students admitted to texting while in class. - Students use cell phones to keep in touch with family and friends with 59 percent texting, 17 percent using voice, 9 percent sending IMs and 7 percent using e-mail.
- Cell phone camera usage has surged, with 72 percent of respondents reporting that they take and send photographs via their cell phone, up from 30 percent in 2005.
- About 39 percent take and send video using their cell phone, up from 4 percent in 2005.
- Text messaging has overtaken e-mail and IM as the main form of communication as 94 percent of students send and receive text messages.
Students as 'Free Agent Learners' : April 2009 : THE Journal
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Among the findings: There's a trend toward students using technology to take hold of their own educational destinies and act as "free agent learners."
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The survey this year polled more than 281,000 students, 29,000 teachers, 21,000 parents, and 3,100 administrators and involved 4,379 schools from 868 districts in all 50 states.
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For teens, a friend online is usually a friend offline, too - USATODAY.com
Why didn't they interview danah boyd?
The Way We'll Be
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a prominent pollster, John Zogby, says in a book being released on Tuesday that it won’t be long before American society takes to distance education as warmly as it has embraced game-changing innovations like microbrewed beers, Flexcars, and “the simple miracle of Netflix.”
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The factor that will close that “enthusiasm gap” is the growing use of distance education by well-respected universities, Mr. Zogby predicts in the book, The Way We’ll Be: The Zogby Report on the Transformation of the American Dream (Random House).
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