Who are todays students

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Who are todays students?
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Who are todays students?
Introducing the Millennial Generation
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Who are todays students?
Introducing the Millennial Generation . . .
Birth Years 1982 through 2000 70 million strong
27 of Americas population Most diverse
generation in US history - 34 minorities For
most in the generation, a childhood of sustained
peace and economic expansion
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Who are todays students?
Values of the Millennials . . .
96 get along with their parents 75 share their
parents values 78 believe religion is
important 60 engage in community service 80
think it is cool to be smart
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Who are todays students?
Characteristics of the Millennials . . .
Team orientation enjoy and thrive in team
projects and decision-making Confident
optimistic about their future High achieving,
goal oriented but also highly stressed and feel
pressured to succeed
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Who are todays students?
Millennials learning . . .

• Millennials want to learn
• collaboratively with each other
• in their own time and place
• through structured activities that allow for
  creativity and self-expression
• by doing things that really matter
• and with all kinds of technology

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Who are todays students?
Millennials achievement . . .
86 say their generation will produce the next
Bill Gates
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Who are todays students?
Millennials achievement . . .
86 say their generation will produce the next
Bill Gates 67 say they know the next Bill Gates
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Who are todays students?
Millennials achievement . . .
86 say their generation will produce the next
Bill Gates 67 say they know the next Bill
Gates and 24 say they could be that person
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Who are todays students?
Opening Plenary Session Panel Discussion
What Children and Parents Want from a Learning
Environment
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Who are todays students?
What Children and Parents Want from a Learning
Environment
Moderated by the Michigan Speaker of the
House Rick Johnson
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Who are todays students?
What Children and Parents Want from a Learning
Environment
Our panel of experts Ana Rosa Alvarez, 11th
grade student Kirill Gorbounov, 12th grade
student Becca Offenkrantz, 8th grade
student Efrata Yitbarek, 11th grade student Colby
Miller, 8th grade student Arthur Lopez,
parent Robyn Rosen, parent Wendy Roth, parent
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
What was NetDay Speak Up Day? What were we
hoping to achieve with Speak Up Day? What did we
learn from the students about their views on
technology and education?
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Results from SpeakOut, a NetDay Project
Julie Evans Chief Executive Officer of NetDay
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
What was NetDay Speak Up Day? First ever, very
large scale, national event where students of all
ages and grades, from communities and schools all
across the country go online from their
classrooms and share their opinions, ideas and
thoughts about how technology should be used in
schools.
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• What were we hoping to achieve with Speak Up Day?
  
• collect authentic, unfiltered input for the
  National Education
• Technology Plan directly from students
• start local conversations between schools and
  students
• regarding student input into technology issues
• ignite a new national awareness on the
  importance of involving
• all stakeholders in education, and
  particularly students, in
• discussions about technology

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
210,000 surveys submitted by students from 3,000
schools during the survey time period October 25
through November 3, 2003            Grade
distribution K-3 (5) 3-6 (26) 6-12
(69)          Gender distribution Female
(50) Male (50)          Survey type Class
version (70) Individual version (30)         
Community profile Urban (27) Rural (32)
Suburban (41)          School
profile Charter (1) Private (3) DOD
(4) Catholic (5) Public (87) Participation
from all 50 states, DC, Puerto Rico DOD
schools worldwide.
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• What did we learn from the students about their
  views on technology and education?
• Todays students are very tech savvy and rely
  upon technology as an essential component of
  every aspect of their lives.
• They are not just using technology in different
  ways, they are approaching their life and their
  daily activities differently because of
  technology.
• The way that students are using technology gets
  more sophisticated at they get older but do not
  under-estimate the younger childrens capacity
  for using technology meaningfully.

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• What did we learn from the students about their
  views on technology and education?
• A new digital disconnect is emerging between
  students that are very tech savvy and ones that
  still view themselves as beginners.
• Technology is allowing todays students to be
  ultra-communicators.

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
A sampling of our national findings Students
of all ages are using email regularly!
        80 of kids in grades 7-12, 45 in
grades 4-6 and 29 in grades K-3 have at least
one email account.         22 of kids in
grades 7-12 have 4 email accounts         1
online activity for kids in grades 3-12 is email
gaming is 2.
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• A sampling of our national findings
• IM is changing the way students are communicating
  with each other.
•         54 of students in grades 7-12 know
  more of their friends
• IM screen names than their home phone numbers.

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• A sampling of our national findings
• Todays tech-savvy kids are using technology in
  ways that surprise their teachers.
• Assignment to write a report?
• 67 of students in grades 7-12 go online to
  research their topic first,
• 10 go the library to find a book
• 9 ask their teacher for help
• 5 look in a textbook

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• A sampling of our national findings
• The Internet is not an extra for most students
  but an essential component of every aspect of
  their lives.
• 81 of the students said that losing access to
  the Internet would impact their personal lives
  and their schoolwork.

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
A sampling of our national findings And if
students were in charge of designing a new school
their number one tech demand would be . . .
Fast, wireless access throughout the school
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students

• A sampling of our national findings
• We also learned two other valuable lessons that
  are important for educators everywhere
• Students have great ideas on how technology
  should be used in school, and
• Students want to be more involved in technology
  discussions and issues at their school.

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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
Want to learn more about Speak Up Day, our
findings and our next steps with this effort?
Visit www.NetDay.org Attend our Congressional
Briefing on March 24th Schedule a briefing for
your company or school district
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NetDay Speak Up Day 2003
Voices and Views from Todays Tech-Savvy Students
Thank you! Julie Evans Chief Executive
Officer NetDay Julie_at_NetDay.org 949-609-4660