Articles

• Generation Mobile: Online and Digital Media Usage on Mobile Phones among Low-Income Urban Youth in South Africa (February 2009) — a PDF report by Tino Kreutzer, MA, Centre for Film and Media Studies, Faculty of the Humanities,

  University of Cape Town.

• Separating Race from Technology: Finding Tomorrow’s IT Progress in the Past
• Study Gives High Marks to U.S. Internet
• Closing the Achievement Gap: Two Views from Current Research. ERIC Digest
• Closing the Gap One School at a Time
• Literacy Bridge

• Where Teens Use the Internet - An older survey (2004) of where teens use the internet.  It shows growing usage of library resources. (Previous link was outdated - Rico).  The full report (2005) discusses teen use of internet and social networking tools (particularly IM).

• "Phone Time Beats Screen Time" - Part of the report referenced in the previous bullet, teens "currently" (2005) prefer the phone over computer interaction. -Rico

• "Developing World Embraces Mobile Phones: UN Report" (3/2/2009)— From the AP (Associated Press) via the CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corporation). Mentions the "digital divide" in a cell phone context. This and other similar articles I found quote a 106-page UN Report released on March 2, 2009 about this topic. I cannot find a direct link to this UN Report. Anyone else found it? -Kristin

• The State of Technology in Catholic Schools - 2005-06 Annual School Survey data. I found this particularly interesting because it mentions the success of the E-Rate program, which this Unit's required reading also references(although at the beginning of the program itself.. this survey shows some of the predicted success).  - Christine

• National Center for Education Statistics - Another link discussing the success of the E-Rate program and depth of technology penetration in private schools, as compared to public schools. ~ Christine

• Computer Access and Internet Use Among Urban Youth - Link to research conducted by folks from Columbia's Mailman School of Public Health regarding urban youth, internet access, and health information. - Amy

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Statistics Links

 

• Languages with the greatest number of Wikipedia articles
• Black-White Achievement Gap Narrows on NAEP (2009)
• Computer Usage-Public versus Catholic Schools
• Computer Usage-Children and Adolescents
• Generations Online - Pew Research Center (2009)
• Income
• Technology Use
• International Literacy Rates

  • World Stats

  • USA Literacy Rates - Adult Literacy, scores overall, and based on education levels and race

  • Countries in Latin America

  • Countries in Africa

  • 3rd world countries

  • Literacy Map - Literacy rates; Female literacy rates;

  • China

• Reach Out and Read Program (Early Literacy Initiative)

  • Reading Across the Nation: A Chartbook (2007) - Summary of national and state statistics of parental reading to children vs. race/ethnicity, % poverty level, and school performance - Rico

  • More Evidence for Reach Out and Read: A Home-Based Study (2004) - Study supporting the Reach Out and Read program, published in Pediatrics - Rico 

• FACTS on US Education System - See how the schools in your state are doing.

• Digest of Education Statistics 2007 - Provides an historical overview of technology in schools with numerous tables. The focus is on the US with a comparison of rural, urban, suburban districts. It offers a baseline from which we can compare to other countries.

• Internet Demographics - This website has so many Statistics that it's just better to go check it out yourself.Yon 

• NAIS Survey Results (2007) - A survey of about 175 independent (private) schools in the US regarding technology use. - RESHAN

• Broadband Penetration Percentages by Country - the source is a company from Bogota, Colombia - RESHAN

• More Broadband Stats from OECD - RESHAN

• Pre-K Home Literacy Activities Statistics 1993 and 2005 - Shows a general improvement in literacy activities in the home for pre-k children -Rico

• State of the Internet 2009: Pew Internet Project Findings and Implications for Libraries — Looks at Internet effects on libraries. New information -- just released October 2, 2009 -Kristin

• 50x15 Digital Initiative by AMD — Has some statistics about the state of the digital divide. Overall, the site has a lot of resources and has a plan for helping close the digital divide. (Hello, everyone -- Should we make a page specifically for programs aimed at closing the divide?) -Kristin

• Public Education Finances Report - issued July 2009 by the US Census Bureau: This report contains financial statistics relating to public elementary-secondary education. It includes national and state financial aggregates and display data for each public school system with an enrollment of 10,000 or more. - Heather

• Pew Project survey on Internet as a diversion   

• Libraries Connect Communities - Survey of public libraries, their funding, technology usage.  Sandra

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Tools 

 

• UNESCO Data Center - Creates Data Sheets from UNESCO surveys based on user selected criteria
• GapMinder - Extremely interesting tool developed by Prof. Hans Rosling to demonstrate changing statistics and their effects.
  • Hans Rosling showing Gapminder    
• Use Your Cell Phone as a Modem —  There's been some discussion about how the cell phone may be the next computer for most of the world's population. Here's an easy how-to about using the cell phone for a computer-like function. - Kristin

 

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Tables and Charts

 

• Globalis - People with access to the world wide network (2002)
• Demographic Profile of US Adults Who Use the Internet

• NAIS Survey Results (2007) - A survey of about 175 independent (private) schools in the US regarding technology use. - RESHAN

• Student Use of Computers (2003) - Table with a breakdown of student computer use vs. level, age, student, and school characteristics, including some socioecomonic factors. -Rico

 

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What percentage of the population owns a computer, has high-speed Web access, etc.? and how does this break down by income level, gender, race/ethnicity, language spoken, etc.?

This file features more in depth data about use from 2004. Click Here.

 

sandra

 

q How many computers and other technological equipment do schools have, and how do they use them?

At my school, the allocated expenditure is shown below for 2008 and 2009 fiscal years. As mentioned in the discussion board, our school has implemented a program called Learning Today to boost scores on the ELA and Math Exams. By buying into this online differentiated instructional tool, the children access it directly in the classroom on available desktops. 3-4 students at a time will use it while a lesson is being conducted. A prize is given to the most logged hours. The research on Learning Today, especially in communitites with large Black and Hispanic populations, has shown an increase in reading and mathematics scores (sometimes 100-200%)

Please see: http://www.learningtoday.com/corporate/research.asp (see FCAT scores in Florida schools)

NYSTL HARDWARE	$ 7,271	$7,905
NYSTL SOFTWARE	$ 6,213	$ 6,809

 

 

My school's NYSTL funding this year is $4,567 for software and $5,480 for hardware. This isn't very different from last year. It is based on the number of students enrolled. Interestingly here is what we spend per child overall and the average for the entire system.

This School
Total Dollars Spent at this School	$9,995,294
Total Per Student Cost in this School	$21,176
Total Per Student Spending for General Ed Students	$18,130
Total Per Student Spending for Special Ed Students	$50,081
Per Student Spending on Classroom Teacher Salaries	$8,859
Per Student Spending on Summer and After School Programs	$232
Per Student Spending on Professional Development	$755
Entire System
Total Per Student Cost For Entire System	$17,696
Total Per Student Spending for General Ed Students	$14,525
Total Per Student Spending for Special Ed Students	$47,442
Per Student Spending on Classroom Teacher Salaries	$6,862
Per Student Spending on Summer and After School Programs	$469
Per Student Spending on Professional Development	$544

sandra tokar

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Social Networking Statistics:

o Internet Activities

o The percentage of kids that have visited the following online communities within the past 2 weeks (close-ended):

 

 

The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization’s (UNESCO) website allows you to click on an interactive map to see country profiles that include population, GDP per capita, phone subscribers per 100 inhabitants, computers, internet hosts and users, internet subscribers, internet bandwidth, radio households and TV households:

 

http://portal.unesco.org/ci/en/ev.php-URL_ID=3554&URL_DO=DO_TOPIC&URL_SECTION=201.html

 

 

 

Also, check out UNITeS:

The United Nations Information Technology Service (UNITeS) is a global volunteer initiative to help bridge the digital divide, led by the UN Volunteers (UNV) programme. UNITeS both supports volunteers applying information and communication technologies for development (ICT4D) and promotes volunteerism as a fundamental element of successful ICT4D initiatives. UNITeS was announced by the United Nations Secretary General, Kofi Annan, in his Millennium Report "We the Peoples: the Role of the United Nations in the Twenty-First Century" (April 2000)

http://www.unites.org/html/unites/summary.htm

 

According to the following Education For All Global Monitoring Report 2006, there are 771 million illiterate adults (2/3 of them women). But literacy reports are hard to come by and data is hard to compare as definitions of literacy vary. Furthermore, measuring literacy is heavily flawed because they rely mostly on self-reported surveys.

efa gmr chapter 1.pdf

 

 

US Census Bureau Small Area Income & Poverty Estimates

Model-based Estimates for States, Counties, & School Districts

 

 

 

World Internet Access Statistics Page:

http://www.internetworldstats.com/stats.htm

 

 

 

Cities Online: Urban Development and the Internet from the Pew Internet & American Life Project.

This paper looks at five U.S. cities (Austin, Cleveland, Nashville, Portland, and Washington, DC) and explores strategies being employed by community activists and local governments to create and sustain community networking projects. Economic profiles and internet penetration statistics are included. Report published 9/2001.

 

 

 

Access and Cost of Bandwith for Universities in Africa

 

• The average university in Africa has the same aggregate bandwidth as a single home user in North America or Europe.
• The average African university pays more than 50 times for this bandwidth than its counterparts in Europe or North America do for much more capacity. http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-84498-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

 

http://www.idrc.ca/en/ev-86474-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

 

Bandwidth capacity is what governs the speed at which information can be uploaded and downloaded from the Internet. The contract with Intelsat will provide access to 93,000 Kilobits per second of bandwidth (Kbps) each month. As recently as two years ago, the total bandwidth available to these institutions was 12,000 Kbps. The unit cost per Kbps has dropped from an average of $7.30 per Kbps per month for the African universities to $2.33.

http://www.foundation-partnership.org/pubs/press/bandwidth.php

 

Tusubira, F, F, Makerere University, Uganda, 12 June 2003

Uganda, a land-locked country of about 24 million, with a GDP per capita of $1,208 and a Human Development Index of 0.444 (2000), faces the challenge of high cost of internet access via satellite. This has impacted negatively on the country as a whole, and specifically on the education sector where access to online resources and collaboration is limited by slow and costly links. Currently, a 1.5mbps dedicated internet link costs $12,000 plus VAT, compared to less than $500 say in the USA.

http://www.researchictafrica.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=311

 

From Lulu Xu:

 

Narrowing the Divide

 

Hey folks, here is some information that I found to be interesting. It is encouraging to see that the digital divide between those who have access to information and those who can’t is narrowing.

 

In a survey conducted by Inktomi Corp and NEC Research Institute which was published in the Los Angeles Times back in January 2000, it says that “Of the world’s approximately 1 billion web pages, more than 80% are in English.”

 

In a research study done in March 2008, it was found that many more languages are being used in the internet world. Please see the below stats and chart.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Global Internet Usage Statistics - Below are stats which maybe a bit more updated than the table above for 2008. 

http://www.mapsofworld.com/referrals/internet/internet-users/internet-usage-statistics.html

If broken down by continent, this suggests Asians use the internet most but English content is most prevelant.  Does this imply lack of content creation from Asians?  The ability to participate in creation of meaningful/cultural content barrier.

 

• Internet Usage Statistics of Asia: This continent ranks number one in Internet usage, with nearly 36% of the population being Internet users. Here one finds an average of 389 million Internet users, who surf the net every month. It is a fact that out of every 100 people in Asia, there are 10 who use the Internet. China has the highest number of users, which is 137,000,000. It followed by Japan, with 86,300,000 users.
• Internet Usage Statistics of Europe: It ranks second with 28.3% usage. There are about 314,792,225 Internet users here. Germany scores above all with 50,471,212 users. Next is UK with 37,600,000 users. France and Italy are the next 2 countries with 30,837,595 and 30,763,940 respectively. Out of every 100 people, there are 38 Internet users.

• Internet Usage Statistics of North America: This continent is number three in Internet Usage it is 20.9% of the world. The total number of Internet users are 233,188,086 approximately.
• Internet Usage Statistics of Latin America: Here the usage is 8.7% of the world and the users are approximately 96,386,009.

• Internet Usage Statistics of Africa: It is just 3% of the world.
  • Internet Usage Statistics of Middle East and Australia: Each has an Internet usage percentage of 1.7%. The Internet Usage Statistics highlights the fact that, Asia has the largest number of Internet users  

 

Distribution of Household Income by Race

 

in 1975, 1985, 1995, and 2006

 

 

 

 

 

 

Digital Divide and its impact on Household incomes

 

Hey folks, here is an interesting quote from the “The World Factbook” published by the CIA on March 15^th, 2008. I thought that since we are looking for information on income level figures by factors like race and location, here is some info on how technology and education has contributed to the difference in income.

 

“The onrush of technology largely explains the gradual development of a "two-tier labor market" in which those at the bottom lack the education and the professional/technical skills of those at the top and, more and more, fail to get comparable pay raises, health insurance coverage, and other benefits. Since 1975, practically all the gains in household income have gone to the top 20% of households.”

 

Source: https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/us.html#Econ

 

 

The National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP), known as the nation's report card gives data on student performance over time and between demopraphic groups.  This is an interactive site where you click on the State that you want to see. (Yon)

http://nces.ed.gov/nationsreportcard/states/