{"id":94986,"date":"2012-11-01T10:52:59","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T15:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/2012\/11\/01\/part-i-introduction-3\/"},"modified":"2024-04-14T04:17:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-14T09:17:37","slug":"part-i-introduction-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/2012\/11\/01\/part-i-introduction-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Part I: Introduction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This research was developed to understand more fully the unique opportunities and challenges facing today\u2019s middle and high school teachers in training students how to write and \u201cdo research\u201d in a rapidly evolving digital environment.\u00a0 In particular, the study was designed to explore teachers\u2019 assessments of students\u2019 research and writing habits, the broad impacts of digital technologies on their students, and the extent to which teachers incorporate digital technologies into classroom pedagogy, particularly for teaching research and writing skills. This study builds on prior Pew Internet research on the growing use of search engines and mobile tools to gather information, the rise of \u00a0social networks and texting, and the increasingly immersive digital world in which today\u2019s teens live.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Study<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The study was designed to collect middle and high school teachers\u2019 views of many aspects of the current role of technology in the classroom and in teens\u2019 research and writing practices.\u00a0 The findings will be summarized in a series of three reports, issued in succession. Broadly, the three reports will be guided by the following questions:<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Report One:\u00a0 How Do Teens \u2018Do Research\u2019 in Today\u2019s Digital World?<\/b><\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How students define and conduct research in today\u2019s tech environment<\/li>\n<li>If and how new technologies are changing how research is taught<\/li>\n<li>Whether and how the topics of digital literacy and information literacy are currently being taught in schools<\/li>\n<li>What are the key skills students need to learn to conduct effective research given today\u2019s digital environment<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Report Two:\u00a0 The State of Teen Writing in Today\u2019s Digital World\u00a0<\/b>(forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The specific impacts of digital technologies on student writing skills and habits<\/li>\n<li>If and how new technologies encourage student collaboration, creativity, and personal expression<\/li>\n<li>If and how new technologies are changing how writing is taught in middle and high school classrooms<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><b>Report Three:\u00a0 Teaching and Technology\u00a0<\/b>(forthcoming)<\/p>\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>How teachers experience and manage digital access issues among their students<\/li>\n<li>The different ways digital technologies are being incorporated into classroom pedagogy<\/li>\n<li>School policy and resource issues affecting teachers\u2019 abilities to incorporate new technologies into their classrooms<\/li>\n<li>Potential changes in assessments, curriculum, and the school environment teachers feel are necessary in response to today\u2019s evolving digital environment<\/li>\n<li>Whether and how new technologies enable and enhance teacher professional development and collaboration<\/li>\n<li>Teachers\u2019 personal use of and attitudes toward different digital technologie<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pew Internet\u2019s prior research on teens<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This report follows prior research conducted by Pew Internet in partnership with the College Board and the National Commission on Writing for America\u2019s Families, Schools and Colleges.\u00a0 In 2008, Pew Internet collaborated with the two organizations to study the writing habits and practices of teens.\u00a0 At that time, focus groups with teens and a national survey of teens and their parents demonstrated that while teens were heavily embedded in a tech-rich world and were crafting a significant amount of electronic text, they saw a fundamental distinction between their electronic social communications and the more formal writing they did for school or for their own purposes.[2. numoffset=&#8221;2&#8243; \u201cWriting, Technology and Teens,\u201d available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2008\/Writing-Technology-and-Teens.aspx\">https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2008\/Writing-Technology-and-Teens.aspx<\/a>.]<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study also builds on Pew Internet\u2019s extensive research on how children ages 12-17 use the internet and other digital technologies more generally.\u00a0 Since 2001, Pew Internet has released a series of reports on teens\u2019 digital lives, including online content creation, the use of social networking sites, the rise of texting as a central communication form, teens\u2019 online privacy management, video gaming, distracted driving, and most recently, digital citizenship.[3. All of Pew Internet\u2019s past research on teens, including reports, toplines and datasets, can be found at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/topics\/Teens.aspx\">https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/topics\/Teens.aspx<\/a>.]\u00a0Over the past decade, Pew Internet\u2019s teen research has shown just how deeply the internet and digital technologies are woven into teens\u2019 lives.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This study is Pew Internet\u2019s first extensive examination of\u00a0<i>teachers\u2019\u00a0<\/i>perceptions of both the positive and negative impacts of this rapidly evolving technological environment on middle and high school students, particularly on their writing and research habits.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Pew Internet\u2019s prior research on how adults find information online<\/strong><strong><\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The current study also builds on Pew Internet\u2019s research on how U.S. adults locate and assess information online.\u00a0 Over time, Pew Internet\u2019s surveys of adults have consistently shown that search engine use tops the list of the most popular online activities, along with email.\u00a0 Currently, 91% of online adults use search engines to find information on the web, up from 84% in June 2004. On any given day, 59% of those using the Internet use search engines. As early as 2002, more than eight in ten online adults were using search engines, and as noted in an August 2011 Pew Internet report[4. See \u201cSearch and Email Still Top the List of Most Popular Online Activities,\u201d available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2011\/Search-and-email.aspx\">https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Reports\/2011\/Search-and-email.aspx<\/a>.], search is only rivaled by email both in the overall percent of internet users who engage in the activity and the percent of internet users doing it on a given day.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Most recently, a February 2012 survey of 2,212 U.S. adults ages 18 and older finds that not only are adults increasingly reliant on search engines as an information resource, but they also generally trust the results they get and feel the quality and relevance of the information provided by search engines is improving over time.[5. \u201cSearch Engine Use 2012,\u201d available at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Press-Releases\/2012\/Search-Engine-Use-2012.aspx\">https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/internet\/Press-Releases\/2012\/Search-Engine-Use-2012.aspx<\/a>.]\u00a0Specifically, 66% of adult search engine users say search engines are a fair and unbiased source of information and 55% say that the quality of search results is getting better over time.\u00a0Another 86% report that they learned something new or important using a search engine that really helped them or increased their knowledge.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Information goes mobile<\/strong><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Finally, this work builds on Pew Internet\u2019s extensive trend data on the growing use of mobile devices, particularly cell phones, as both communication- and information-gathering devices.\u00a0 The most recent data indicate that among adult cell phone users, the reliance on these mobile devices for \u201cjust-in-time\u201d information is steadily growing.\u00a0 A March 2012 survey of U.S. adults finds that 70% of all adult cell phone owners had used the device in the past month to get a needed piece of information\u2014including 35% who had used their phone to solve an unexpected problem and 27% who used their phone to settle an argument they were having.\u00a0 Overall, these \u201cjust-in-time\u201d adult cell users comprise 62% of the entire U.S. adult population.[6. 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