Monday, August 3, 2009

Inside Scoop: Middle School students' view of technology

To find out how middle school students feel about technology in today's society, I prepared a survey of questions and distributed them to the 12 students in a summer school class who had returned a permission slip. I then interviewed the students and asked them four questions:
What is your favorite thing to do with technology?
How do you most often use technology in school?
How would you like to use technology in school?
How do you think technology will change in the future (by the time you get to high school)?

Students overwhelmingly are digital natives and are very comfortable with a variety of technology tools but we are not meeting those needs in the classrooms as most mentioned doing research or PowerPoint's with technology.

Here is a summary of my discussion with the middle school students.
http://www.podcastmachine.com/podcasts/1486/episodes/6921

Let me know what you think.

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