Students 2.0 :

1. Students 2.0: Research and Trends on College Students’ Use and Perspectives on Technology Presented by: Jessica White & Tess Collins

2. Overview of session • 2.0 data snapshots • Student use • Student perspectives • Other interesting stuff… • Questions to consider

3. 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)

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

5. 2.0 data snapshots: Student Use

10. 2.0 data snapshots: Student Use • What percentage of college students own a laptop? • Is it higher or lower than 80%? • 86%

11. 62% 15%

13. 2.0 data snapshots: Student Use • What percentage of students that have taken a class completely online? • Is it higher or lower than 15%? • 31%

14. 75%

15. 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%

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%

17. CAN YOU FIND A % FOR THIS?

20. 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

21. 2.0 data snapshots: Student PERSPECTIVES • Students believe that technology is critical to academic success. 75% say that technology helps them achieve academic outcomes.

22. 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 email (45%).

23. 2.0 data snapshots: Student PERSPECTIVES • Technology training and skill development for students is more important than new, more, or “better” technology.

24. 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.

25. 2.0 data snapshots: Student PERSPECTIVES • Students were ambivalent about instructors’ use of “new, cutting-edge” technology 25% 28%

27. 2.0 data snapshots: other interesting stuff… • At one institution, only 5.6% of students reported no multitasking behaviors in class (Burak, 2012) 51% 25%

28. 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).

29. 2.0 data snapshots: other interesting stuff… • Classroom multi-tasking is significantly related to an increase in high-risk behaviors (Burak, 2012).

30. But…

31. 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).

35. References • Black, A. (2010). Gen y: Who they are and how they learn. Educational HORIZONS. Retrieved 10/12/12 from http://www.eric.ed.gov/PDFS/EJ872487.pdf • Bowman, L.L., Levine, L. E., Waite, B. M., & Gendron, M. (2010). Can students really multitask? An experimental study of instant messaging while reading. Computers & Education, 54, 927-931. • Bunce, D. M., Flens, E. A., & Neiles, K. Y. (2010). How long can students pay attention in class? A study of student attention decline using clickers. Journal of Chemical Education, 87(12), 1438-1443. • Burak, L. (2012). Multitasking in the university classroom. International Journal for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning, 6(2). http://academics.georgiasouthern.edu/ijsotl/v6n2.html • Educause Center for Applied Research (2012). ECAR study of undergraduate students and information technology, 2012. Retrieved 10/3/12 from http://www.educause.edu/library/resources/ecar-study-undergraduate-students-and-information-technology-2012 • Kolowich, S. (2012). Digital faculty: Professors and technology, 2012. Inside Higher Ed. Retrieved 10/17/12 from http://www.insidehighered.com/news/survey/digital-faculty-professors-and-technology-2012 • Lytle, R. (2012). 5 apps college students should use this school year. US News. Retrieved 10/1/12 from http://www.usnews.com/education/best-colleges/articles/2012/09/21/5-apps-college-students-should-use-this-school-year • Levine, A. & Dean, D. (2012) Generation on a tightrope. San Francisco:Jossey-Bass. • O’Donnell, C. (2011). College students limit technology use during crunch time. UW Today. Retrieved 10/2/2012 from http://www.washington.edu/news/2011/10/12/college-students-limit-technology-use-during-crunch-time/ • Ophira, Nass, & Wagner’s (2009). Cognitive control in media multitaskers. PNAS Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America, 106, 15583-15587. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0903620106 • The Chronicle of Higher Education (2010). Professor’s use of technology in teaching. Retrieved 10/17/12 from http://chronicle.com/article/Professors-Use-of/123682/

36. Questions & Comments

37. Jessica White • Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning • Director, Graduate Certificate in College and University Teaching • jessica.white@oregonstate.edu • Tess Collins • Graduate Teaching Assistant, Center for Teaching and Learning • M. Ed Candidate in College Student Services Administration • Tess.Collins@oregonstate.edu