Exclusive survey: Parents weigh in on the digital classroom — from marketplace.org
Excerpt:
For the last year, Marketplace’s LearningCurve team has been looking at the impact of technology on education. We’ve talked to students, teachers and ed-tech companies about the digital revolution taking hold in classrooms across the country.
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Now we turn our attention to parents, many of whom have spent the last year exploring the ins-and-outs of educational technology themselves, alongside their children. We wanted to get parents’ views of the shift, as their children do more school work on laptops and tablets, and become accustomed to emailing teachers and checking grades online.
In a national, online survey of parents of kids in grades 3 through 12 conducted by Lieberman Research Worldwide, “Parents’ Attitudes Toward Educational Technology,” we found parents feel good about the growing use of technology in education, and most think it is improving the quality of education for their children.
