What Do we Know About the Students Taking This Course?

This is a report on all students taking EDM 310 this semester (8 classes)
How old are you? Over half are 19-22 (53%). Teens and 20's make up 82% of the classes. The 30s are 15%, 40s 2% and 50s 1%. Most of you (71%) do not have children living with you. Most of you never read a newspaper, or do so only occasionally (59%). Only 10% of you read a newspaper every day. Most of you (99%) watch videos. 44% of you watch more than 4 hours of video every week. Half of you own an iPod or an iTouch, 70% of you own some MP3 player. 51% of you listen to music more than 2 hours a day, 27% listening 3 or more hours a day. 98% of you own a cell phone. 25% of you own a smart phone; 11% own an iPhone, 8% a Blackberry. 34% of you send 50 or more text messages a day. Eight of you report sending more than 200 text messages a day! Most of you are Facebook users: 81%. Over half of you have a MySpace account: 54%. 44% of you spend an hour or more a day on your social network accounts.
59% of you read less than a book a month (not counting class assignments).
94% of you own a computer. 91% of you own a PC. 5% of you still have a dial-up connection to the internet and another 5% have no access to the internet at all.
64% of you have a digital video camera, 87% of you have a digital camera that takes still pictures. 82% of you claimed to be proficient in word processing at the start of the class. 94% of you had never participated in a podcast before this class.
19% of you are taking an overload (more than 5 classes) 59% of you work half time or more. 91% of you intend to enter the teaching profession and another 5% say they probably will. 54% of you want to teach in an elementary school, 18% kindergarten, 15% middle school and 35% high school. (You could select more than one so % is greater than 100) The most desired subject areas were Sports (19%), Literature/Reading/Writing (18%), Social Science (13%), Math (10%).
91% of you think that teachers should be "technologically literate" (no definition was given for this term). Only 19% of you thought you were not technologically literate when you entered this course (again, no definition of this term was given)

And that is YOU!