BYOD in the Classroom-There’s No Turning back
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We Have to Leave a Digital Footprint of Good
October 8, 2016
In 2015, a Pew Research Center study found that 92% of teens go online daily and that 24% say they are online "constantly."
T o reiterate, in 2015, 24% of teens were going online “almost constantly,” facilitated by the widespread availability of smartphones. Aided by the convenience and constant access provided by mobile devices, especially smartphones, 92% of teens report going online daily. Pew Research also said that more than half (56%) of teens — defined in this report as those ages 13 to 17 — go online several times a day, and 12% report once-a-day use. Just 6% of teens report going online weekly, and 2% go online less often.
Pew Research went on to say that much of this frenzy of access is facilitated by mobile devices. Nearly three-quarters of teens have or have access to a smartphone and 30% have a basic phone, while just 12% of teens 13 to 17 say they have no cell phone of any type. African-American teens are the most likely of any group of teens to have a smartphone, with 85% having access to one, compared with 71% of both white and Hispanic teens. These phones and other mobile devices have become a primary driver of teen internet use: Fully 91% of teens go online from mobile devices at least occasionally. Among these “mobile teens,” 94% go online daily or more often. By comparison, teens who don’t access the internet via mobile devices tend to go online less frequently. Some 68% go online at least daily. Is this daily digital consumption a good thing? You tell us.
"Recently, researchers asked children & parents to describe the rules they thought families should follow related to technology..”
According to the New York Times, there's a new digital dynamic to the family dynamic.
Alexis Hiniker, a graduate student in human-centered design and engineering at the University of Washington who led the research. She, along with researchers at the University of Michigan, studied 249 parent-child pairs distributed across 40 states and found that while children ages 10 to 17 “were really concerned” about the ways parents shared their children’s lives online, their parents were far less worried. About three times more children than parents thought there should be rules about what parents shared on social media.
Sites like Facebook and Instagram are now baked into the world of today’s families..
It's quotes like these that put us on the path to the Digital Futures Initiative...“Parents often intrude on a child’s digital identity, not because they are malicious, but because they haven’t considered the potential reach and the longevity of the digital information that they’re sharing,”
