Tuesday, October 11, 2011

Students Love Technology



A very useful skill of a student today is the ability to find and use the available information. And most of the information, which a student needs can be found in the internet.

The following infographic was made by Onlineeducation.net and it was based on results from a student/technology study.




These are some of the interesting findings:


  • When students stopped using digital devices for 24 hours, they experienced withdrawal symptoms similar to those of alcoholics and drug addicts.

  • 38% of students say they can't go more than 10 minutes without using a digital device

  •  27% of the students say their laptop is the most important item in their backpack. They feel that laptop is more important than textbooks.
  •  98% of college students own a digital device.

  • They spend 182 minutes per day texting each other and 102 minutes on Facebook

  • Students perform better in classes that use Twitter by an average of 5 grade points. 

Source: Onlineeducation.net