Hey Mom, Where's My Slide Rule? - Tech tools that make the grade in the classroom. Typical question from today's student? Likely not. From slide rules to microfiche, few people miss (or even remember) the technology of yesteryear. Although in a recent poll filmstrips and slide projectors ranked as the most nostalgic classroom tech, more than two-thirds of Americans say they don't miss any of it.
PARADE and Microsoft Office polled hundreds of Americans to discover how technology has affected students' study habits over the years. Whereas calculators and protractors may have once been viewed as "cutting edge," at 54%, laptops and tablets top the list of must have tech tools today, followed by search engines at 32%. Surprisingly, 13% are still old school, saying paper and pencils is all today's students need.
When it comes to software, word-processing ranked No. 1 as most important to today's students --- but applications like Excel and PowerPoint weren't far behind. A majority of Americans (66%) said they are all must-haves for students today.
"I think back on my poster board displays from my school days and laugh. My sons produce professional-looking presentations for school using their PC and PowerPoint that rival my own work projects. I wish I had technology like that in school," Jen Singer, Editor, MommaSaid.net.
Check out the complete results of the PARADE survey here
What one piece of technology do you wish you had when you were in high school?
PARADE and Microsoft Office polled hundreds of Americans to discover how technology has affected students' study habits over the years. Whereas calculators and protractors may have once been viewed as "cutting edge," at 54%, laptops and tablets top the list of must have tech tools today, followed by search engines at 32%. Surprisingly, 13% are still old school, saying paper and pencils is all today's students need.
When it comes to software, word-processing ranked No. 1 as most important to today's students --- but applications like Excel and PowerPoint weren't far behind. A majority of Americans (66%) said they are all must-haves for students today.
"I think back on my poster board displays from my school days and laugh. My sons produce professional-looking presentations for school using their PC and PowerPoint that rival my own work projects. I wish I had technology like that in school," Jen Singer, Editor, MommaSaid.net.
Check out the complete results of the PARADE survey here
What one piece of technology do you wish you had when you were in high school?
- Social media 1%
- Search engine 49%
- Smartphone 5%
- Laptop/tablet 45%
- Yes 74%
- No 26%
- Social media 0%
- Search engine 32%
- Smartphone 2%
- Laptop/tablet 54%
- Paper and pencil is all they need. I survived with it. 13%
- Microfiche 5%
- Filmstrips/slide projectors 13%
- Typewriters 12%
- Slide rules 3%
- None of it! 68%
- Word-processing software like Word for papers and reports 30%
- Note-taking applications like OneNote 2%
- Excel for number crunching 1%
- Presentation programs like PowerPoint 1%
- All of the above 66%
- TV 73%
- Radio 11%
- Phone 14%
- Video games 1%
- None 0%
- Less than 1 hour per day 15%
- Less than 2 hours per day 49%
- Less than 4 hours per day 22%
- Unlimited as long as its educational 13%
- Smart boards 34%
- Tablets 16%
- Skype/video phones 44%
- Laptops 6%
- Easier, because of all the ways it helps in learning. 27%
- Harder, because of all the ways it distracts from learning. 15%
- Neither, technology just offers different tools to help learning. 57% ( Parade.com )
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