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*Students who say they do these activities “often,” “all the time” and “sometimes”
Activity | % CA Grade 6-8 students |
Research a website to learn more about a topic | 77% |
Watch a video to learn how to do something | 76% |
Read an online news story or report | 53% |
Play an online game or augmented/virtual simulation activity | 46% |
Use online writing tools to improve my writing | 45% |
Find experts online to answer my questions | 34% |
Use social media to learn what others are doing or thinking about a topic that interests me | 34% |
Take a self-paced tutorial or online class | 24% |
Frequency | Gr 6-8 students | Teachers | School administrators |
Rarely or never | 9% | 42% | 12% |
A few times a year | 5% | 15% | 13% |
A few times a month | 10% | 11% | 20% |
A few times a week | 27% | 10% | 23% |
Daily or almost daily | 40% | 8% | 16% |
Class format | CA Gr 6-8 students | CA teachers |
Traditional class | 57% | 76% |
Blended learning class | 27% | 16% |
Flipped class | 9% | 1% |
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Source: Speak Up Research Initiative, 2016 Findings - the results of the authentic, unfiltered views of 70,807 K-12 students, parents, educators, administrators, and members of the community from California collected from October 2016 to January 2017. Speak Up is an annual research initiative of Project Tomorrow. Learn more about Speak Up and other research findings from Project Tomorrow at tomorrow.org.