Last week, 1128 total students took the Fast Facts survey, and over 70% of students at FDR Middle School responded!
We asked students two main questions : What device did you use in school yesterday? What did you use it for?
Here is what we found:
Devices Used by Students At School
Student Device Use
What is in that ‘other’ category, you ask? Here are some of the more common responses:
A few of my favorite, but less common, responses were: “To learn,” “to speak another language,” and “To call my mom.”
We also asked students to submit their own Fast Fact questions. Students offered up A LOT of questions about the tablets, the project, and other students’ hobbies, interests and feelings about school and technology. Stay tuned for more on those results! And please keep encouraging your students to respond!
Unlike traditional surveys, Fast Facts let us look at change over time. This is just a single data point, a starting point from which to better understand how learning and teaching strategies are changing over the course of this project. We’ll ask some of these questions repeatedly over time so we can use multiple snapshots to tell a richer story!
Do any of these results surprise you? What would you like to ask your students?