STUDENTS 2.0: RESEARCH AND TRENDS ON COLLEGE STUDENTS’ USE AND PERSPECTIVES ON TECHNOLOGY Presented by: Jessica White & Tess Collins

OVERVIEW OF SESSION 2.0 data snapshots Student use Student perspectives Other interesting stuff… Questions to consider

WHO ARE STUDENTS 2.0? Born between 1981 and 2001: Generation Y, Gen Y, Digital Natives, Net Generation, Information Generation, Millennials, and Neo Millennials Report that the World Wide Web is the most influential event to have happened in their lifetime (Levine & Dean, 2012) Do not remember and cannot imagine a world without digital technology (Frand, 2006)

A VISION OF STUDENTS TODAY YouTube video created by Michael Wesch’s class at Kansas State in 2007 regarding learning and technology usage of students. 4.7 million views

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT USE

16% Say they were prepared to use needed technology when they entered college 70% Say that technology helps them achieve their academic outcomes 31% Own a laptop 57% Uses an iPhone 86% Say that most of their instructors use technology effectively. 75% Say that they learn most in blended learning environments 68% Say they would like to interact more with their instructors face to face 53% Say they skip classes when course lectures are available online 66% Say they would like to keep their academic and social lives separate 44% Say they have taken a class completely online

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT USE What percentage of college students own a laptop? Is it higher or lower than 80%? 86%

62% 15%

What percentage of students that have taken a class completely online? Is it higher or lower than 15%? 31% 2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT USE

75%

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT USE What percentage of students report skipping classes when lecture notes are available online? Is it higher or lower than 25%? 16%

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT USE What percentage of students say that they like to keep their academic and social lives separate? Is it higher or lower than 52%? 57%

CAN YOU FIND A % FOR THIS ?

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES 67% of students say that technology helps them to feel connected to what’s going on at the institution

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Students believe that technology is critical to academic success. 75% say that technology helps them achieve academic outcomes.

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES 53% of students want to interact more with instructors face-to-face, via their course and learning management system (53%), and through (45%).

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Technology training and skill development for students is more important than new, more, or “better” technology.

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Students gave more positive marks for their instructors use of technology than ever before. 68% of students say most of their instructors use technology effectively.

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: STUDENT PERSPECTIVES Students were ambivalent about instructors’ use of “new, cutting-edge” technology 25% 28%

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: OTHER INTERESTING STUFF… At one institution, only 5.6% of students reported no multitasking behaviors in class (Burak, 2012) 25% 51%

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: OTHER INTERESTING STUFF… Juggling between tasks leads to poorer performance as well as increased time needed to complete tasks (Bowman, Levine, Waite, & Gendron, 2010; Ophira, Nass, & Wagner, 2009).

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: OTHER INTERESTING STUFF… Classroom multi-tasking is significantly related to an increase in high-risk behaviors (Burak, 2012).

BUT…

2.0 DATA SNAPSHOTS: OTHER INTERESTING STUFF… Students weeks away from final exams and in the library tend to pare use of electronics; “students use self-styled strategies for dialing down technology when the pressure is most on them” (O’Donnell, 2011).

16% Say they were prepared to use needed technology when they entered college 70% Say that technology helps them achieve their academic outcomes 31% Own a laptop 57% Uses an iPhone 86% Say that most of their instructors use technology effectively. 75% Say that they learn most in blended learning environments 68% Say they would like to interact more with their instructors face to face 53% Say they skip classes when course lectures are available online 66% Say they would like to keep their academic and social lives separate 44% Say they have taken a class completely online

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QUESTIONS & COMMENTS

Jessica White Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning Director, Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching Tess Collins Graduate Teaching Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning M. Ed Candidate in College Student Services Administration