Capstone Project

*52% of all children now have access to one of the newer mobile devices at home (smartphone, video iPod, or iPad/other tablet device)

• In a typical day, 11% of all 0- to 8-year olds use a cell phone, iPod, iPad, or similar device for media consumption

• Greater than 29% of all parents have downloaded “apps” for their children to use

 

 

*27% of all screen time for 0-8 year-olds is spent w/ digital devices, such as computers, handheld and console video game players, and other interactive mobile devices

• 22% of 5- to 8year-olds use a computer at least once a week; even 12% of 2- to 4-year-olds use it every day and another 24% using it at least once a week (avg. age of first computer use= 3.5 years old)

• 51% of all 0- to 8- year olds have ever played a console video game

  • GENDER: The only substantial difference between boys’ and girls’ media use is in console video games. Boys are more likely to have ever played a console video game than girls are (56% vs. 46%), to have a video game player in their bedroom (14% vs. 7%), and to play console video games every day (14% vs. 5%)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

*“Children under 2 spend twice as much time watching TV and videos as they do reading books.”

• 47% of babies and toddlers watch TV or DVDs during a typical day, spending an average of nearly two hours doing so

• 29% of just 6- to 32- months-old have a TV in their bedroom!

• 21% of 5- to 8-year-olds “usually” have the TV on while they are doing their homework

 

Children age 8 and under spend an average of about three hours (3:14) a day with media, including screen media, reading, and music. Most of that time is spent with screen media: an average of 2:16 a day. Music and reading occupy an average of about a half-hour a day each (:29 for reading, :29 for music)

 

Time spent with screen media ranges from under an hour a day (:53) among children under two to 2:18 among 2- to 4-year-olds and close to three hours (2:50) among children 5-8.

 

*PARENTS:  Some parents use media to occupy themselves when they are supposed to be out playing with their kids: 4% say they “often” do that, and 15% say they “sometimes” do.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

(Statistics based on a survey of 1,384 parents of children ages 0 to 8 years old. May–June, 2011.)

 

-Common Sense Media, & Rideout, V. (2011). Zero to eight: Children's media use in America. Common Sense Media.

 

 

 

 

*Merlo, a clinical psychologist, said she's observed a number of behaviors among smartphone users that she labels "problematic." Among them, Merlo says some patients pretend to talk on the phone or fiddle with apps to avoid eye contact or other interactions at a bar or a party. Others are so genuinely engrossed in their phones that they ignore the people around them completely.

 

*More than a third of U.S. adults – 35 percent – now own a smartphone, according to the Pew Research Center, and two-thirds of them sleep with their phones right next to their beds.

 

*According to J.D. Power and Associates, the average smartphone user spends about $107 each month for wireless access — more than the average household pays for electricity each month.

 

-Huffington Post, 2011

 

 

 

 

*We spend 3 billion hours a week as a planet playing videogames. Is it worth it? How could it be MORE worth it?

Currently there are more than half a billion people worldwide playing computer and videogames at least an hour a day -- and 183 million in the U.S. alone. The younger you are, the more likely you are to be a gamer -- 99% of boys under 18 and 94% of girls under 18 report playing videogames regularly. The average young person racks up 10,000 hours of gaming by the age of 21.

 

-TED Speaker, Jane McGonigal