10 Technology Trends in Education: Part 1

Dr. David Mauricio

With the ever evolving landscape of technology:

• schools and learning are starting to change the ways of the past

• not so long ago, blackboards and notebooks ruled in education

• being that technology is so readily available to students

• the ways students receive and maintain information has changed

• video homework and mobile computing is at all time high

Personal Access to Mobile Device

• Roughly 89 percent of high school students have access to a smart phone

• 50 percent of students between grades 3 to 5 have smart phones

• 50 percent of high school students have tablets

• 60 percent of high school students own a laptop

Internet Connectivity

• Statistics for the ways students connect to the internet when at home:

• 64 percent said that they use either 3G or 4G

• A whooping 23 percent use either an Internet-enabled TV or a WII console

Use Of Video For Classwork and HomeworkEven though the study was conducted for students, Julie Evans discovered that 46% of

teachers are now using videos in the classroom to help students learn topics and materials

Mobile Devices for Schoolwork

• Students are now using their mobile device to be more efficient in day-to-day tasks

• 60 percent use mobile devices to do research

• 43 percent use it for educational games

• 40 percent use it to help them collaborate with fellow peers for group projects and assignments

Using Different Tools For

Different Tasks

Evans noted that “We find them using video social media and cell phones for communications; they use e-readers for reading text and

articles; they write, take notes and do research on laptops, But, where does

this leave tablets?”