I found this very interesting, and since our project is related to instructional technology, I thought I would share. The chart above is interesting, teachers and students are not seeing eye to eye on what information and media literacy skills are important. The most interesting statistic to me was "Ability to produce digital media reports", only 29% of teachers find this to be an important skill! Maybe I'm shocked by this because I feel most of what I do is produce digital media reports. Same for "know how to analyze and interpret media stories". The teachers scores varied enough to make me think they feel strongly against digital media in education (my interpretation).

Also, click through to the article, there's a chart on "Personal Access to Mobile Devices" divided by grade (US students). I was shocked by the figures for grades K-2 (in this US Kindergarten starts at 5 years old, so we're talking students that are 5-7 years old). Of this age group 21% have a cell phone without internet access, and 16% have a smart phone! As you can imagine, these figures increase as the student get older.

What I'm getting from this is students and parents both want to use technology in the classroom, especially their own devices, but teachers and administrators may be standing in their way. This is probably no surprise, but if we were to ever draw up personas of teacher, student, and parents, these figures might be helpful insight to potential needs or barriers.