Brightbytes Data Insights: 21st Century Teachers and Students

Thank you all for taking the time to participate in the Brightbytes Technology and Learning survey. Over the next few weeks, I'll be sharing data points from our collection, as well as, supporting research and resources, related district plans, and more.

First, I'd like to highlight 21st century teacher and student data points. It's great to see that teachers' foundational and online skills are strong. Notice that students do not feel as confident in some of these skills. While kids spend a lot of time interacting with technology, it is often focused on social media and multimedia. We need to help them learn the productivity tools (Docs, Sheets, Slides, email, etc). On the flip side, our students can definitely support our growth in multimedia skills including photo, video, and sound editing. Professional development for Multimedia Skills was the highest ranked need by teachers and will be considered in planning session schedules next school year.

Our district technology committee has spent the past year researching digital citizenship resources and curriculum and is in the process of developing curriculum and professional development.  This ties into Classroom Management with Technology being identified as an area to provide additional professional development.