The Internet is Neither Helpful or Harmful to Student Learning

We have a provincial body that governs the profession – the Ontario College of Teachers which publishes a quarterly magazine called “Professionally Speaking.” This quarter the magazine has an article titled “State of the Teaching Profession Survey Results .”

The survey was conducted by COMPAS Inc. and commissioned by Professionally Speaking. The methodology for the survey is outlined in the article, basically they completed a phone interview of more than 1,000 teachers during July. The results are deemed accurate to within 3.1 percentage points 19 times out of 20.

One particular result has me banging my head against the wall. Educators in the province, at least the ones who took the survey, still don’t get it. When referring to Student Success Factors – educators were to score what they considered helpful or harmful to student learning and education.  You guessed it the Internet was neither helpful or harmful (computer games faired far worse).
 

* greater than zero and less than 0.5

Reading about Bull54it and the Art of Crap Detection made me feel a little better, thanks Gary Stager .