Number one of a series (I’m confident): 9% of HS students have a smart phone or Blackberry.
Can we feel the paradigms shift yet?
EDIT: Bryan rightly reminds me that there are huge class issues involved here. The digital divide redux. We need some intelligent urgency here.
Bryan’s right. I’m a big supporter of using social networking sites like Blue Dot and Delicious and others for getting students to share knowledge they’ve come across online, but I’ve seen first-hand the issues that arise just from requiring students to type their essays. If they don’t have the chance to do it in the computer lab at school it just won’t happen because they have no computer at home. We get all of these great ideas about podcasts and our students are without mp3 players or high speed Internet access. We’ll leave some of these students behind if we don’t find a way to include them.
Not a surprising stat. at all. I’m reminded on it every time one rings in my classroom.