D2L Keynote from Tuesday Lunch

Julie Evans
Project Tomorrow
www.tomorrow.org

Coming Soon: The New "Free Agent Learner" Are you ready?


Where do we need to be from a visionary standpoint?
Looked at Speak Up antional Research Porject

Huge increase in K-12 having mobile devices
41 % in immersive virtual reality evironments

Digital Naive Generation--not just adopting technology, they are adapting it.

Student vision 3 themes
1.social-based learning Students want to leverage emerging communications and collaboration tools to create personal neworks of experts
2. Un-tethered learning Studetns envision technology-enabled learning that transcends classroom walls
3. Digitally-rich learnng Students see the use of relevancy-based learning

59% of students use social media as their primary communications vehicle
use it to get help on schoolwork
It is the first thing they check when they get home

They want to use their own mobile device (60%)

Almost one third of 9-12 graders report owning a smartphone.

1/3 of parents have taken an onie class for work purposes.

51% Want to work at their own pace as highest concern

Barriors were mostly institutional not personal

Want online textbooks to be interactive and relative

Students' interest in games transcends ages and gender