What Do Kids Say Is The Biggest Obstacle To Technology At School?

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I found this article on what students, parents, teachers, and administration think about how schools are integrating technology into the classroom. I was surprised about a couple things. Number 1: out of the 300,000 students surveyed 21% of K-2 students had a cell phone and 67% of high school students had a laptop. I thought these percentages were kind of high for how young these students were and I was wondering what their need for these technologies were. Number 2: When students in high school, parents, teachers, and administrators were asked if their school was doing a good job using technology to enhance learning and or student achievement 74% teachers, 72% of principals and 62% of parents said yes, while only 47% of students agreed. This surprised me and alarmed me at the same time because if we are not meeting the needs of our students then we are not doing our job. I found this study very interesting and relevant because we are getting the students opinion on how they think technology is being used in schools. Read the attached article I think you will be surprised by some of the results!