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Technology Survey Analysis From Lora Williams 1

The document summarizes the results of a survey conducted among members of an UCLA Technology in the Classroom class. Seventeen participants completed the survey. It found that most participants were female, between 25-49 years old, and taught in public schools. Respondents reported using technology like projectors, smart boards and student computers in their teaching. They felt technology gives students access to information and prepares them for career fields using technology. Most saw trends like increased mobile device usage and online learning continuing in the future.

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Technology Survey Analysis From Lora Williams 1

The document summarizes the results of a survey conducted among members of an UCLA Technology in the Classroom class. Seventeen participants completed the survey. It found that most participants were female, between 25-49 years old, and taught in public schools. Respondents reported using technology like projectors, smart boards and student computers in their teaching. They felt technology gives students access to information and prepares them for career fields using technology. Most saw trends like increased mobile device usage and online learning continuing in the future.

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Assignment 3: Written Analysis of Survey Responses from Lora Williams

1. In Week 2, you developed an online survey and emailed a link of the survey to the class. At the beginning of Week
3, you should have the responses from your
survey and will prepare an analysis of the responses.
The analysis consists of 2 parts.
1. Prepare an analysis of the responses in a spreadsheet or similar application. If you used an online survey such as
SurveyMonkey please submit the numeric
data you obtained into a spreadsheet. You may use Excel or Numbers for this part of the assignment. (5 points)
2. Develop a written analysis of the responses to your survey questions and their relationship to the question(s) you
were attempting to answer in your original
survey. The written analysis must include graphs generated from the data in the spreadsheet or similar application.
You may use Word or Pages for this part of
the assignment. (5 points)
I have included examples of this assignment the module "Examples of Assignments and Tutorials."
Please save both the spreadsheet and the written analysis, then upload both documents as part of Assignment 3 in
Canvas.
This assignment is due by Sunday, November 9 at 11:59 p.m.

I conducted a survey among the class participants in the UCLA Technology class with a goal of
understanding the current interest in and usage of technology among this population. Seventeen
members of the class filled out the survey. All participants are members of the UCLA Technology in the
Classroom class that agreed to fill out the questionnaire. Demographically, all participants are 25 and
older, and the vast majority (82%) is between 25 and 49 years of age with the remainder 50+ years of
age. Three-quarters of the class is female (75%), with 19% male and the remainder preferring not to
answer.

Age 24 years or less


Age 25-49 years
Age 50+

Prefer not to answer

Female

Male

10

12

14

The vast majority of the survey participants teach in public schools (71%). Teaching in a private
school (18%) is the next most common response, followed by teaching in a charter school (12%). This
appears to roughly follow the proportion of these schools in California, with somewhat more
participants working in charter schools than public or private schools, as compared to the proportion of
these types of schools in California. The sample size of 17 is so small that these differences are not
unexpected and may not be meaningful in terms of the comparing the survey participants to the general
population of teachers. Thos responding to the survey teach all grades:
160%
140%
120%
100%
80%

California Schools*

60%

Survey

40%
20%
0%
Teach public
school

Teach charter
school

Teach private
school

Not surprisingly, given the nature of this course, the participants are interested in and use
technology. They most often use a projector linked to a computer (63%), followed by student
computers (58%), a smart board (47%) and Multimedia (42%). On average, each respondent uses two
devices.

Student computers
Smart board
Projector linking to
computer
Multimedia

The majority of the survey participants agreed that technology in the classroom today:

Give students access to more and updated information (80%).


Prepare students for a career in tomorrow's world where technology is used (73%).
Allow students to explore technology in a safe school environment (73%).

In terms of their own behavior, using technology to collaborate with other teachers, 29% said they did
so many times, 41% said a few times and 29% said never. This could be an area of growth and
opportunity for technology and teachers. Participation in this UCLA course might embolden the
teachers who have not used technology to collaborate with teachers in their own career to now do so.
Teachers are using technology in their classroom in a variety of ways, including:

Skype to talk Internationally with Students


I used Study Island. The students have a chance to respond to my classroom questions
Use of the Promethean Board as well as the DocuCam.
Powerpoint lectures, class website
I typically use an Elmo attached to a projector to teach lessons. It makes it easier to erase and
change as teachable moments arise.
I am the computer technology teacher district wide, so we use computers daily
A mobile computer cart on wheels (COW) is brought into the third grade classroom each twice
a week and each student brings a computer to their desk and works on Math programs.

Video and music


In Introduction to lessons and additional activities/drills/reviews
Students have created research based projects using the computers
Lessons with interactive smart board
For online summative assessments, blended direct instruction and student research.
Students will look up vocabulary words and then find a picture to match
Design
The types of uses are broad, and include both ways to present information to students and for
students to use the technology themselves for research and design.
Expectations for the future of technology are similarly broad and include:
Social media
Access to technology
3D Printers
Networking
Smaller the better
information availability
More reliance on smartphones
Mobile
An influx of virtual full-time employment done
entirely from home.
On line textbooks for high school in Hong Kong
Technology is being used with everything we
could think of
Transnational education
Flipped classroom
Online education
Increasing communication
Social media
Privatization

Most students appear to expect the trends in technology to continue, such as more use of smart phones
and other mobile devices, increased miniaturization and the continued opening of information to the
world.
In summary, the participants of this survey and members of the class on Educational Technology
in the Classroom, are very positive toward technology. They use technology, want to use technology
and expect technology trends to continue in education.

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