| Do you agree with the opening statement made
by Marshall McLuhan in
1967?(note you can find out more information by
clicking on the underlined hyperlinked words) "Today's
child is bewildered
when he enters the 19th century environment that still characterizes
the educational establishment where information is
scarce but ordered
and structured
by fragmented,
classified patterns subjects, and schedules." |
Yes
No
Why or Why not?
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| Did you take the hyperlink to find out more about
Marshall McLuhan or
the definitions of any of the words? |
Yes
No |
Why or Why not? |
| Based on what selected students'
signs said: |
| Do you agree with the words scribbled on the back of a chair: “Students
learn what they do” and another chair, “What
are you learning sitting here?” |
Are you learning when you come to class? Yes
No
|
What percentage of your class time is lecture?
What percentage of your class time is group activity
What percentage is spend doing or creating?
What percentage is other
What?
|
A student's sign said
"18% of my teachers Know my name |
What percentage of your teachers do you think know your name
Does it matter? Yes
No
|
Why or Why not? |
One girl's sign said
"I completed 49% of assignments assigned to me,
26 were relevant to my life" |
What percentage of assignments do you complete?
|
What percentage your courses are relevant to your life?
|
| A man stated on his laptop "I buy hundred dollar textbook that I
never open" |
About how much did you spend for textbooks this term?
$ |
What percentage of the total pages in the texts you've bought do you estimate you read?
|
One woman's sign said "This year I will read 8 books
2300 web pages
1281 Facebook profiles |
About how many books will you read this year?
About how many web pages do you read in a week?
|
About how many MySpace pages do you visit in a week?
About how many Facebook
profiles do you visit in a week?
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| Which of the following do you have? (check all that apply) |
MySpace
Facebook
a blog
a website
cellphone
ipod |
| How many of these have your professors used to communicate in
the last year (enter 0, 1, 2, etc.) |
MySpace
Facebook blog
website
a message board
webCT/Blackboard
IM
Chat
email
Telephone
podcasts
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| Which of these do you use, or would you like to use, to communicate with your professors? |
MySpace
Facebook
a blog
a website
a message board
webCT/Blackboard |
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IM
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chat
|
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email
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telephone
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podcasts |
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other |
| Which of these do you use, or would you like to use, to
communicate with fellow students? |
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MySpace
Facebook
a blog
a website
a message board
webCT/BlackBoard |
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IM
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chat
|
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email
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telephone
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YouTube |
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other |
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| Another woman's sign said "I will write 42 pages for class this
semester and over 500 pages of email" |
About how many pages do you think you wrote for class last
term (or will write for class this term)? |
About how many emails do you send in the same time
period? |
| One student's sign said "I spend 1 ½ hours watching TV each
night" |
How many hours a week do you watch TV?
|
What are some of your favorite shows? |
| Another's sign said "I spend 3 ½ hours a day online" |
How many hours a week do you spend online?
|
What sites do you visit most frequently? |
| Another "3 Hours studying" |
How many hours a week do you study?
|
Where do you study? |
| A man's sign said "I work 2 hours every day" |
How many hours a week do you work?
|
What do you do?
|
One pair of signs said "When I graduate I will probably have
a job
that doesn’t exist today" |
Are you coming to college to train for a specific job?
Yes
No
|
What career do you plan to pursue? |
One student showed a Scantron form which when turned over
says
"Filling this out won’t help me get there." |
What percentage of tests are Scantron graded?
What percentage of tests are memorization of facts?
|
Do you feel you learn anything from Scantron graded tests?
Yes
No
Why or Why not? |
| One sign said "I will be $20,000 in debt after graduation" |
How much money will you owe as a result of going to college?
$ |
How are you paying for your education?
|
One woman's signs said "I did not create the problems
But they are my problems" |
Are you concerned with the world's problems (global warming,
poverty, war...) Yes
No
|
How could college education help you solve these problems?
|
| How much control over the assignments do you have? |
Do professors give you any choice over what you do
to learn the material? |
Do you think more control over assignments would
help you learn morel?
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| Why did you come to college? |
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Do you think you are achieving those goals? Yes
No
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OPTIONAL
Either tell me:
What is your name?
email |
or
Why did you not want to identify yourself
|
Did you enjoy taking this survey Yes
No
Do you want to add anything else? |