again. We also survey our faculty and compare the data. We look at
access at school, home, comfort levels in using specific technologies,
etc. If you let me know what specifics you are interested in, I can see
if we have data to help you or we can add it to our upcoming survey.
Jill
Jill R. Brown, PhD
Director, Educational Technology
Albuquerque Academy
brownj@aa.edu
(505) 858-8831
6400 Wyoming Boulevard, NE
Albuquerque, New Mexico 87109
Fax (505) 828-3320
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[mailto:ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU] On Behalf Of Peter Gow
Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2008 12:20 PM
To: ISED-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Subject: QUERY: Student tech competency
We've been talking quite a bit about laptops and digital natives at our
place, but I'm vaguely aware of considerable variance in student
technological savvy and usage, especially but not confined to the Web
2.0 competencies that are presumed to be universal among our kids.=20
I'm wondering if anyone has undertaken any kind of very current baseline
survey to gather information on what kids actually do know and what kids
actually do use (and use regularly and well) from among the juicy menu
of 2.0 products and services available. I guess I would be interested in
recent results as well as in particular instruments; we use SurveyMonkey
all the time here, which would obviously be the way to go in conducting
a survey (among kids who check school email and are inclined to do
online surveys, anyhow).
I would be especially interested in any ideas about how to learn about
principled outliers--the families who don't permit, the kids who won't
IM, people who are privately boycotting Google or Microsoft--and how
those folks have been brought into 1:1 programs or even "discovered" as
teachers require more and more work to be done using the tools of the
New Technology.=20
In a nutshell, what I want to find out reality as to whether "all" the
kids are truly doing and able to do all the things that they are all
purported to be doing.
Any guidance would be appreciated.
Cheers--Peter Gow
Peter Gow, Director of College Counseling and Special Programs Beaver
Country Day School
791 Hammond Street
Chestnut Hill, MA 02467
www.bcdschool.org
Tel. 617-738-2755
FAX 617-738-2701
Skype: petergow3
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