Students See Schools Inhibiting Their Use of New Technologies
Students are using personal technology tools more readily to study subject matter, collaborate with classmates, and complete assigments than they were several years ago, but they are generally asked to “power down” at school and abandon the electronic resources they rely on for learning outside of class, according to findings from a national survey released last week.
Teachers, for the most part, are not taking advantage of the tools that middle and high school students have widely adopted for home and school purposes, the sixth annual survey from the Speak Up National Research Project shows. Those students should be given a more formal role in determining how new technology—such as mobile devices and social-networking sites—can be tapped to improve schooling, a report on the survey findings says.
“Our nation’s students are in fact a ‘Digital Advance Team’ illuminating the path for how to leverage emerging technologies effectively for teaching and...
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