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These teachers mirror the general adult population in that younger teachers have more confidence than their older counterparts in their search abilities. Eight in ten (80%) of the youngest teachers (those under age 35) say they are “very confident” in their search abilities, compared with 75% of teachers age 35-54 and 63% of teachers age 55 and older. AP and NWP teachers are very confident in their search abilities How CONFIDENT do you feel about your own searching abilities when using a search engine to find information online? AP and NWP Teachers [n=2,462] Total U.S adult search users [n=802] 56% 73% Source: Teacher data from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Online Survey of Teachers, March 7 to April 23, 2012, n=2,462 middle and high school teachers. Adult data from Pew Research’s Internet & American Life Project Tracking Surveys. These teachers have less faith in the accuracy of the information they find using search engines In general, how much of the information you find using search engines do you think is accurate or trustworthy? AP and NWP teachers [n=2,462] Total U.S. adult search users [n=802] Source: Teacher data from Pew Research Center's Internet & American Life Project Online Survey of Teachers, March 7 to April 23, 2012, n=2,462 middle and high school teachers. Adult data from Pew Research’s Internet & American Life Project Tracking Surveys. While these teachers have greater confidence than adults as a whole in their search abilities, they have considerably less faith in the accuracy of the information they find using these tools. Just 5% of teachers participating in the survey say that “all or almost all” of the information they find using search engines is accurate or trustworthy, compared with 28% of all U.S. adult search users. p e winter n e t .o r g 24 37% 26% 1% 5% 1% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 5% Very Somewhat Not too Not at all DK/Ref 28% 55% 45% 40% 22% 3% 1% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% All or almost all Most Some Very little/None DK/Ref
AP and NWP teachers are also very different from adults as a whole in that the youngest teachers have less faith in the accuracy of search results. Among the general population, younger adults tend to have more faith in the trustworthiness and accuracy of the search results they get. Half (50%) of teachers ages 22-34 say that all or most of the information they find using search engines is accurate or trustworthy, a figure that rises to 61% among teachers ages 35-54 and 68% among those age 55 and older. Wikipedia use among teachers AP and NWP teachers use the online encyclopedia tool Wikipedia at much higher rates than U.S. adult internet users as a whole (87% vs. 53%). Wikipedia relies on user-generated, crowd-sourced content, a process that sometimes calls the accuracy of its information into question. In focus groups with teachers and students prior to the survey, Wikipedia was noted as a tool teachers discourage or bar students from using because of concerns about the accuracy and reliability of user-generated content. Students explained that while teachers often disallow Wikipedia as a formal source on assignments, it is still often their first stop when researching a topic online. Students value Wikipedia as a place to get a short, straightforward summary of a topic at the beginning of an assignment before going to other sources. Wikipedia use does not vary across teachers of different subjects, grade levels, or community types. There is only the smallest variation in Wikipedia use between younger and older teachers, with younger teachers slightly more likely to use this tool than their older counterparts. Nine in ten teachers under age 35 (90%) say they use Wikipedia, compared with 87% of teachers age 35-54 and 85% of those age 55 and older. Teachers’ online video and media consumption Compared with all U.S. adults, AP and NWP teachers are heavy online video consumers and uploaders. However, because Pew Internet has not measured some of these online activities among the full U.S. population since 2009, these differences are likely smaller than the table below indicates. Online video consumption and uploading in all of its forms has grown steadily among all adults since Pew Internet began measuring these behaviors in 2007. 7 Still, this group of teachers stands out in their online video consumption, with 97% using video-sharing sites like YouTube, 76% watching television shows or movies online, and 74% downloading videos to their computer. Another two-thirds (67%) upload videos for others to consume. 7 See “The State of Online Video,” http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2010/State-of-Online-Video.aspx. See also “71% of Online Adults Now Use Video-Sharing Sites,” http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2011/Video-sharing-sites.aspx, and “Photos and Video as Social Currency Online,” http://pewinternet.org/Reports/2012/Online-Pictures.aspx. p e winter n e t .o r g 25
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