This is a blog for the 7th grade students at BCD to learn about and discuss Internet/Technology Use
Summary of the Kaiser Foundation Report
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds
A national survey by the Kaiser Family Foundation found that with technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
This is the link to the pdf version with many easy to read charts which show the % of time spent on various activities.
This is a short- 5 minute video of 3 tweens discussing their use of media
You can watch more about Internet use on PBS's Frontline- Digital Nation.
Cartoon by Peter Steiner reproduced from The New Yorker, (Vol.69 (LXIX) no. 20)
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