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The internet and digital technologies give teachers more access to teaching resources, yet also increase the range of content and skills they must be knowledgeable about Have the internet and other digital technologies had a major impact, minor impact, or no impact on you personally in each of the following ways? Giving you access to more material, content and resources to use in your teaching Increasing the range of content and skills you need to be knowledgeable about Allowing you to share ideas with other educators Enabling interaction with parents Enabling interaction with students Generally requiring more work for you as a teacher MAJOR impact MINOR impact NO impact 41% 57% 69% 67% 75% Source: The 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. The degree to which AP and NWP teachers feel the impact of the internet on these elements of their professional lives is surprisingly consistent across most subgroups. Among the few notable differences that emerge are in the degree to which digital tools have impacted teacher/parent interaction, with teachers of higher income students more likely than those teaching the lowest income students to say the internet and digital technologies have had a major impact in this area. While 75% of teachers of the highest income students feel a “major impact” in this area, the same is true of just 55% of teachers of the lowest income students. Another impact where some variation is seen is the degree to which the internet and other digital technologies have increased the range of content and skills teachers feel they must be knowledgeable about. While 78% of English teachers feel a “major impact” in this area, that figure is 71% among p e winter n e t .o r g 52 92% 0% 20% 40% 60% 80% 100% 42% 37% 28% 30% 22% 18% 8% 3% 3% 6% 4%
Science teachers and 66% among math teachers. Similarly, while 81% of teachers in rural areas and 78% of teachers in urban areas feel the internet has had a “major impact” on the range of topics they must master, slightly fewer suburban (73%) and small town (73%) teachers feel the same way. There is almost no variation on this item across teachers of different ages or different levels of experience. One might expect more experienced teachers to be more inclined to feel the internet and other digital tools have generally increased their workload as teachers. While this is true among these AP and NWP teachers, the difference between more and less experienced teachers is small. While 45% of those who have been teaching 16 years or more feel the internet has had a “major impact” on their overall workload, the same is true of 37% of teachers who have spent fewer years in the classroom. The majority of AP and NWP teachers use the internet on a weekly basis to keep up with developments in their field and to find material they can use in lesson plans Asked how often they use the internet for a variety of work-related tasks, a large majority of AP and NWP teachers (80%) report getting email alerts at least weekly that allow them to follow developments in their field, including 52% who say this happens daily. A majority also use the internet at least weekly to find content that will engage students (84%) or material to help them create lesson plans (80%). In contrast, just 18% say they use a social networking site on a weekly basis to exchange ideas with other teachers. p e winter n e t .o r g 53
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