Year: 2016
Type: article
Abstract: Today's middle and high school students have never known a world without computers, the internet, smartphones, text messaging, and other digital technologies.1 Social media is central to their lives-95 percent of twelve to seventeen-year-olds are online and eighty percent use Face book or Twitter for interactive communication and personal learning.2 When asked, students say that they want more technology-based learning opportunities at school.In one cross-national history learning study, high school students in the United States and Turkey said they could perform better academically if teachers utilized technological materials more often for classroom activities.3 1 Project Tomorrow, Mapping a Personalized Learning Journey-K-12 Students and Parents Connect the Dots with Digital Learning (April 20 12), http://www.tomorrow.org/speakup/pdfs/SUII_ PersonalizedLeaming_Students.pdf; Tamar Lewin, "If Your Kids Are Awake, They're Probably Online," New York
Institution: University of Massachusetts Amherst
Language: English
Subfield: Sociology and Political Science
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
SDG: Quality education
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W2891680928