Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
73% of online college students use the Internet for research more than the library Nearly half email ideas to professors that they wouldn’t dare say in class CHICAGO (September 15, 2002) – The generation that grew up with the personal computer now is heavily wired on campus and relies on the Internet in every dimension […]
More than two-thirds of Americans (69%) say the government should do everything it can to keep information out of terrorists’ hands, even if that means the public will be deprived of information it needs or wants.
Student Sample and Data Collection Methods This report is based on information gathered from public middle and high school students across the United States via two methods: focus groups (which included the administration of questionnaires to focus group participants) and the solicitation of online student-written stories. Focus Group Sample and Methods We conducted a total […]
Prior Research on Student Use of the Internet for School Since the mid-1990s, many education policy makers have promoted widespread access to the Internet in schools. From the launching of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in 1996 to the roll out of the E-rate discounts for telecommunications services in 1998 to the passage of the […]
78% of middle and high school students use the Internet But the most Internet-savvy among them complain that their teachers don’t use the Internet in class or create assignments that exploit great Web material Washington (August 14, 2002) – Millions of teenagers increasingly use the Internet for their schoolwork, but they say that educators often […]
The Digital Disconnect: The widening gap between internet-savvy students and their schools Using the Internet is the norm for today’s youth. A July 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project shows that three in five children under the age of 18—and more than 78% of children between the ages of 12 and […]