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anonymous

Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning - 52 views

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  • Online social networking includes much more than Facebook and Twitter. It is any online use of technology to connect people, enable them to collaborate with each other, and form virtual communities, says the Young Adult Library Services Association
  • Among students surveyed in a National School Boards Association study, 96 percent of those with online access reported using social networking, and half said they use it to discuss schoolwork. Despite this prevalence in everyday life, schools have been hesitant to adopt social networking as an education tool. A 2010 study into principals’ attitudes found that “schools are one of the last holdouts,” with many banning the most popular social networking sites for students and sometimes for staff.
  • Survey research confirms, however, that interest in harnessing social networking for educational purposes is high. As reported in School Principals and Social Networking in Education: Practices, Policies and Realities in 2010, a national survey of 1,200 principals, teachers and librarians found that most agreed that social networking sites can help educators share information and resources, create professional learning communities and improve schoolwide communications with students and staff. Those who had used social networks were more positive about potential benefits than those who had not. In an online discussion with 12 of the principals surveyed, most said, “social networking and online collaboration tools would make a substantive change in students’ educational experience.” They said these tools could improve student motivation and engagement, help students develop a more social/collaborative view of learning and create a connection to real-life learning.
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  • Most national, state and local policies have not yet addressed social networking specifically; by default, it often falls under existing acceptable use policies (AUPs). While AUPs usually provide clear language on obscenities, profanity and objectionable activities, they also leave out gray areas that could open students to harmful activities while excluding them from certain benefits of social networking. Likewise, boilerplate policies that ban specific applications, such as Twitter, may miss other potential threats while also limiting the ability of students to collaborate across schools, districts, states or countries. The challenge for districts is to write policies that address potentially harmful interactions without eliminating the technology’s beneficial uses.
Deborah Batzer

SurveyMonkey.com - Powerful tool for creating web surveys. Online survey software made ... - 3 views

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  • Deborah Batzer on 29 Oct 09
     
    SurveyMonkey.com is a revolutionary tool to create and publish custom surveys in minutes, and then view results graphically and in real time.
Roland Gesthuizen

Education World: Improving School Culture - 78 views

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shared by Roland Gesthuizen on 04 May 11 - Cached
  • Studies are finding that the culture or climate of a school can have a marked impact on student performance.
  • school's performance never will improve until the school culture is one where people feel valued, safe, and share the goal of self-improvement
  • School culture, he says, is shared experiences both in and out of school, such as traditions and celebrations, a sense of community, of family and, team."
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  • Positive school cultures can be developed through assessment, analysis, improving and strengthening a school's identity, and then monitoring progress
  • The three major indicators of a healthy school culture are collaboration (do people work together and share information), collegiality (is there a sense of belonging and emotional support), and efficacy (do stakeholders feel as if they have control of their destinies or do they view themselves as helpless victims of "the system?")
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 04 May 11
     
    What kind of culture pervades your school? Do staff members feel like a family? Or is it like a factory or a Little Shop of Horrors? One way to assess school culture, and then strive to improve it, is through the Center for Improving School Culture's triage survey. Included: Links to the triage survey.
Derrick Grose

What do I Need to Do a Survey - 47 views

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  • Derrick Grose on 04 Mar 10
     
    Statistics Canada provides pointers using surveys for classroom-based research.
Roy Sovis

Survey: Parents Look to Teachers for Internet Safety Training -- THE Journal - 9 views

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Internet_Safety

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  • Roy Sovis on 14 Jul 14
     
    "Survey: Parents Look to Teachers for Internet Safety Training"
Martin Burrett

Break times shortened in England schools - 0 views

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  • Martin Burrett on 14 May 19
     
    "Research undertaken by University College in London has found that school break times in England have shortened, with infants receiving 45 minutes less per week, with their secondary peers losing 65 minutes over the same period. Researchers analysed questionnaires completed at 993 primaries and 199 secondaries in 2017 along with separate pupil surveys at 37 schools. These were compared with surveys in similar schools in 2006 and 1995. The report claims their results gave the impression that breaks were being kept as "tightly managed and as short as possible" and this meant pupils could be missing out on social development and highlighted how "school is increasingly the main, and in some cases the only, context where young people get to socialise"."
Marc Patton

Speak Up View Surveys - 0 views

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  • Marc Patton on 08 Jan 13
     
    Speak Up, an online research project facilitated by Project Tomorrow, is an annual survey of K-12 students, teachers, parents, and school administrators about key educational issues.
Donal O' Mahony

ICT use in European schools - survey results - 21 views

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  • Donal O' Mahony on 28 Apr 13
     
    A major survey of ICT use in European Schools was published recently. This is my initial reaction to it - really an outline of contents and one piece of data relevant to the Republic of Ireland.
Alfredo Zavaleta

How Teens Do Research in the Digital World | Pew Research Center's Internet & American ... - 105 views

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  • Overview Three-quarters of AP and NWP teachers say that the internet  and digital search tools have had a “mostly positive” impact on their students’ research habits, but 87% say these technologies are creating an “easily distracted generation with short attention spans” and 64% say today’s digital technologies “do more to distract students than to help them academically.”
  • Overall, the vast majority of these teachers say a top priority in today’s classrooms should be teaching students how to “judge the quality of online information.”
  • The internet and digital technologies are significantly impacting how students conduct research: 77% of these teachers say the overall impact is “mostly positive,” but they sound many cautionary notes
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  • Teachers and students alike report that for today’s students, “research” means “Googling.”  As a result, some teachers report that for their students “doing research” has shifted from a relatively slow process of intellectual curiosity and discovery to a fast-paced, short-term exercise aimed at locating just enough information to complete an assignment.
    • Kelly Sereno
      Kelly Sereno on 04 Mar 15
       
      Yikes - a disturbing survey response!
  •   Second and third on the list of frequently used sources are online encyclopedias such as Wikipedia, and social media sites such as YouTube. 
  •  94% of the teachers surveyed say their students are “very likely” to use Google or other online search engines in a typical research assignment, placing it well ahead of all other sources that we asked about
  • e databases such as EBSCO, JSTOR, or Grolier (17%) A research librarian at their school or public library (16%)
  • In response to this trend, many teachers say they shape research assignments to address what they feel can be their students’ overdependence on search engines and online encyclopedias.  Nine in ten (90%) direct their students to specific online resources they feel are most appropriate for a particular assignment, and 83% develop research questions or assignments that require students to use a wider variety of sources, both online and offline.
  • Teachers give students’ research skills modest ratings Despite viewing the overall impact of today’s digital environment on students’ research habits as “mostly positive,” teachers rate the actual research skills of their students as “good” or “fair” in most cases.  Very few teachers rate their students “excellent” on any of the research skills included in the survey.  This is notable, given that the majority of the sample teaches Advanced Placement courses to the most academically advanced students.
    • Kelly Sereno
      Kelly Sereno on 04 Mar 15
       
      These research skills relate to the common core literacy standards, and many ratings of students' skills in these areas fell into fair or poor categories.
  • Overwhelming majorities of these teachers also agree with the assertions that “today’s digital technologies are creating an easily distracted generation with short attention spans” (87%) and “today’s students are too ‘plugged in’ and need more time away from their digital technologies” (86%).  Two-thirds (64%) agree with the notion that “today’s digital technologies do more to distract students than to help them academically.”
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      Alfredo Zavaleta on 15 Sep 16
       
      Students need to show more patience, take longer to decide, ponder the options.
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      Alfredo Zavaleta on 15 Sep 16
       
      Procrastination not necessarily bad- see TED on procrastination
Christine Dailey

What Do Teachers Want? - Bridging Differences - Education Week - 56 views

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bill and melinda gates survey scholastic

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  • Christine Dailey on 11 Apr 12
     
    The goal of the survey "is to place teachers' voices at the center of the conversation on education reform by sharing their thoughts and opinions with the public, the media, and education leaders." Is anyone listening?
Carl Bogardu

Home | SurveyLegend - 0 views

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Survey pictures resources tools

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  • Carl Bogardu on 23 Mar 12
     
    Create a picture based survey
Cara Whitehead

Busting the Myths of Digital Learning - 170 views

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  • Cara Whitehead on 20 May 12
     
    Survey from JogNog reveals schools unprepared to support digital learning - EdTech Times
Becky Roehrs

Conflicted: Faculty and Online Education, 2012 | Inside Higher Ed - 0 views

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  • Faculty members are far less excited by, and more fearful of, the recent growth of online education
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      Becky Roehrs on 25 Jun 12
       
      Even though the questions posed in this survey are about online education, the majority of faculty who responded taught face-to-face (75%), not online. Not too surprisingly, a majority of faculty who had taught online, as well as faculty at institutions that had more online offerings, stated that online education was as effective (or more effective), than face-to-face instruction (as has been noted in numerous research studies). It may be true that faculty who only teach face-to-face may be more conflicted about online education, but based on the teaching background of faculty who chose to respond to the survey, I would not make assumptions about faculty excitement or fears about online education.
Roland Gesthuizen

The Power of Involved Parents « Diane Ravitch's blog - 41 views

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  • This family showed what a difference it makes when families do their share–and more.
  • Roland Gesthuizen on 25 Aug 12
     
    "In the Scholastic-Gates survey of teachers, teachers were asked what they wanted most. The greatest number said they wanted families to be more involved. (What mattered least: longer school days and hours, merit pay). "
Tracy Tuten

When the 'A' in U.C.L.A. Stands for 'Achievement' - Campaign Spotlight - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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  • The campaign, now getting under way, is for the University of California, Los Angeles. The campaign proclaims that U.C.L.A. is the home of “the optimists,” people who are risk-takers, rule-breakers and game-changers.
  • The campaign is the first for U.C.L.A. from an agency named 160 Over 90, which is based in Philadelphia and recently opened an office in Newport Beach, Calif.
  • That work underscores the growing presence of universities and colleges as advertisers in the media. Their goals include selling themselves to prospective students and the parents of those students, seeking donations from alumni, recruiting faculty members and improving their standings in various surveys.
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  • The agency has also created ads for institutions of higher learning like Michigan State University, Loyola University Maryland and the University of Dayton.
  • The campaign has a section devoted to it on the U.C.L.A. Web site, ucla.edu/optimists, and is getting shout-outs on the U.C.L.A. fan page on Facebook and on the U.C.L.A. Twitter feed, where those who send messages are asked to use the hashtag #optimists.
  • The U.C.L.A. campaign has a small budget, estimated at less than $500,000, for a couple of reasons. One is that much of the campaign is appearing online; there is also print advertising, in newspapers.
  • The video clip can also be watched on YouTube.
  • The new campaign is meant to celebrate “the optimism that abounds on our campus,” she adds, “even in challenging times,” and shine a spotlight on “the dynamism and vitality” as well as the history and legacy of the university.
  • The way to do that, Ms. Turteltaub says, is to focus on “the icons” from U.C.L.A. “who made their mark in whatever fields they choose” and describe their “accomplishment, success, barrier-breaking.”
  • “This is the place that gives you the opportunity to be a game-changer,” Ms. Turteltaub says, “and you’ll choose the game.”
  • Tracy Tuten on 13 Feb 12
     
    That work underscores the growing presence of universities and colleges as advertisers in the media. Their goals include selling themselves to prospective students and the parents of those students, seeking donations from alumni, recruiting faculty members and improving their standings in various surveys.
trisha_poole

Online media use in Australia 2007- 2011 | Australian Policy Online - 15 views

apo.org.au/...-media-use-australia-2007-2011

phd Australia online data research Web 2.0 education survey Internet

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  • trisha_poole on 23 Nov 11
     
    An interesting report with the most interesting data being that "100% of students are online in 2011". While the survey data is apparently representative of the Australian population, I would argue that this figure is not the case and that deeper research needs to be undertaken before these figures can be used as a foundation for embedding technology and internet into education. However, it does show the increasing rate of uptake of online activities within Australia and the trends for access information.
David Sebek

Listening to Students | Edutopia - 2 views

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BOY students listening surveys

shared by David Sebek on 28 Sep 12 - No Cached
  • David Sebek on 28 Sep 12
     
    good questions for beginning of the year survey
Cindy Edwards

Designing a Survey - 3 views

www.sciencebuddies.org/...Soc_survey.shtml

technology_leadership

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  • Cindy Edwards on 20 Jul 13
     
    Very informative article on developing surveys.
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