Tech Tools Students Need!

This from Wired Campus: Tech Tools Students Say They Can't Live Without



The obvious caveats apply: these are selected graduate students from an expensive private school and this video is heavily edited. Nevertheless, here are a few things I noticed:

• I heard the words tablet and app a lot.
• MacBooks are clearly the laptop of choice.
• Paper and pen are still widely used 'tech' tools.

That being said - students in a recent study at Ball State University viewed tablets mainly as entertainment devices, i.e. large and expensive smartphones.

At Westfield State, only about 22 percent of respondents to the Fall 2013 Student Technology Survey reported owing a tablet computer. On the other hand, 97 percent (!) reported owing a laptop computer - a percentage that seems unreasonably high and suggests a sampling bias. That being said, the ECAR (2014) nationwide survey found student laptop ownership at 90 percent and tablet ownership at 47 percent.