Get ECAR Study Of Community College Students And Information Technology, 2019. ECAR Research Report

Today, 88 percent of college students said they own a laptop and 85 percent said they own a smartphone. The poll was conducted over a month this past spring. Just over 1,200 college students from around the United States were surveyed. The full report is available at the Pearson site.

Use of Technology Students reported using computers for writing documents (99.5 percent) and e-mails (99.5 percent), followed by surfing the Internet for pleasure (97.2 percent) and for classroom activities (96.4 percent).

Ninety-five percent of respondents have access to a smartphone (of whom 99% own them personally), and 91% have access to a laptop (of whom 97% own them personally). Nearly all respondents reported owning at least two internet-capable devices.

Students have ever increasing access to a variety of smart devices. Smartphones and Laptop PCs remain the devices that most students have access to (93%). This has been the case since we started the surveys three years ago with little indication of any change to these device preferences.

Computer ownership among students remained close to universal with 96.5% owning laptops and 14.9% owning desktops. Only 3 students (1.5%) reported they didn't own a computer. Smartphone ownership remains close to universal (98.5%).

53% of teachers say students use digital learning tools to learn every day. 57% of students say they use digital learning tools to learn every day. More high school students (63%) and middle school students (64%) than elementary school students (45%) report using digital learning tools daily.