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Screen Time Higher Than Ever for Children, Study Finds - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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shared by Charla Chailland on 26 Oct 11 - No Cached
  • children under 8 are spending more time than ever in front of screens
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      Charla Chailland on 26 Oct 11
       
      With research suggesting that kiddos are spending TOO much time in front of screens, it seems like an ethical conundrum for teachers in regards to technology. Such that, if teachers use more technology in their classrooms they will be better equipping their kiddos for their very digital-friendly futures (and perhaps engaging them a great deal more too). On the flip side, however, with so much screen time at home, it bothers me that screen time will increase within the school too. Hence, why I think this is our new great ethical/technological dilemma. Thoughts?
  • It found that almost half the families with incomes above $75,000 had downloaded apps specifically for their young children, compared with one in eight of the families earning less than $30,000. More than a third of those low-income parents said they did not know what an “app” — short for application — was.
  • The app gap
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  • television is still the elephant in the children’s media room, accounting for the largest share of their screen time: about half of children under 2 watch TV or DVDs on a typical day
  • parents who check their e-mail three times on the way to the bus stop are constantly modeling that behavior, so it’s only natural the kids want to use mobile devices too.”
  • It’s the beginning of an important shift,
  • The report found that despite more than a decade of warnings from the American Academy of Pediatricians that screen time offers no benefits for children under 2, “only 14 percent of the parents surveyed said their doctor had ever discussed media use with them,” said Vicky Rideout, its author
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