Technology
Technology
Technology: What Kinds Students Are Using, For How Long, And What Are They Doing With The Technology.
What Technologies are students using?
Cell phones, tablets/Ipads, computers, Ipods/mp3 players, gaming systems like Xbox 360 and PS3.
It is reported by Kaiser foundation that children age 8-18 spend 7 hours and 38 minutes a day on technology for entertainment purposes. That is 53 hours a week. It also reported that children are using multi-modes of media at the same time so that averages to 10 hours and 45 minutes. So if students are spending this much time on entertainment media will they spend that much time on educational media (Foeh, Rideout, & Roberts, 2010). Can we get children to participate in education modes of technology?
What do students say?
What technologies do you use at home and how long do you use them?
Xbox 360 2hrs a day
Playstation 3
2 hrs a day
Cellphone 1 hr a day
Tv 8 hrs a day
DVD player 3hrs a day.
Is any of it educationally based?
A few TV shows are education based.
What technologies do you use at school and for how long do you use the technologies?
Computers 2x a week for 1 hr
Internet 2x week 1hr
DVD 1x week for 2hrs
Active Board 3 hrs a day = to Smart Board.
Is it always educationally based or for fun? Mostly educational.
How much free time in school do you get to use technologies? 1x a week for 1 hr in computer class.
Student 2 at Home
What technologies do you use at home and for how long do you use them?
Any of them educationally based?
Reading program 20 minutes a day.
Student 2 in School
But
Teachers must give guide and structure to technology and learning, if not you will have.....
Why use technology
Works on all of these new participatory culture skills.
Play
Performance
Simulation
Appropriation
Multitasking
Distributed Cognition
Collective Intelligence
Judgment
Transmedia Navigation
Networking
Negotiation
My answer to help kids learn in a more interesting and appropriate way is Smart Board Technology!
How does it work, what does it work on.
With a Smart Board you can play games
surf the net in a controlled environment, and
manipulate your interactive white board.
And
Anonymous Student 1 &2 (6/10/ 2012) King, D., Personal Interview, Technology: What Kinds Students Are Using, For How Long, And What Are They Doing With The Technology.
Foe., U., G., Rideout, V.,J., & Roberts, D., F.(2010). Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds retrieved from http://www.kff.org/entmedia/mh012010pkg.cfm
Jenkins, H., Clinton, K., Purushotma, R., Robison, A., J., Weigel, M. (2006). Confronting The Challenges of Participatory Culture: Media Education for the 21st Century.
Prensky, M. (2008). Turning on The Light. Educational Leadership 65 (6) 40-45.
Richtel, M. .(2011). In Classroom of Future, Stagnant Scores Retrieved from 6/3/12 http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/04/technology/technology-in-schools-faces-questions-on-value.html?pagewanted=all
Student 1 at Home
Students were asked several questions.
Bibliography for pics
Bibliography videos
Is technology killing kindness in kids?
http://z6mag.com/technology/is-technology-killing-kindness-in-kids-1610293.html retrieved 6/8/12
Smart Boards Why are they so easy to use? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0U05WeXPGlk retrieved 6/3/12
Technology with no structure and no guide doesn't work
Mentalemesis
http://mentalemesis.wordpress.com/
retrieved 6/8/12
Student 1 in School
Using the Smart Board in the Elementary School http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8P-sv9dOu8 retrieved 6/3/12
Pics
Giant Bomb
http://www.giantbomb.com/xbox-360/60-20/
retrieved 6/3/2012
http://my.hsj.org/schools/newspaper/tabid/100/view/frontpage/schoolid/2695/articleid/355909/should_ipods_be_allowed_at_school.aspx
Bulldog Times At A Glance
retrieved 6/3/12
Lets Go Mobile
http://www.letsgodigital.org/en/12870/cellphoneplan/ retrieved 6/3/12
MonoLogue http://eurlog.wordpress.com/2008/11/19/time-to-get-up-not/ retrieved 6/7/12
Timless Blog
http://www.timelessblog.net/laptops-desktop-computers/ retrieved 6/6/12
Ukmr
http://www.ukmobilereview.com/manufacturers/m-apple/apple-sell-ipads-shanghai-court-rules/
retrieved 6/3/12
"There are times in Kyrene when the technology
seems to allow students to disengage from learning:
They are left at computers to perform a task but wind
up playing around, suggesting, as some researchers have found, that computers can distract and not instruct" (Richtel, 2011).
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Foeh.,
Xbox 360 1hr a day
TV 2hrs day
Cell phone 20 min a day .
What technologies do you use at school and for how long?
Computers 80 min a day
Internet 80 min day
over head projector 6hr day.
Is it always educationally based or for fun?
Mostly educational
How much free time do you get in school to use technologies? What kinds of technologies do you use? Computer free time 45 minutes daily.