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<span style="font-size:20px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial;line-height:110%">OPLIN 4Cast #670: Kids spending more times staring at screens, but maybe that's a good thing</span><br>
<span style="font-size:11px;font-weight:normal;color:rgb(102,102,102);font-style:italic;font-family:arial">October 30th, 2019</span></p>
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Common Sense Media is a nonprofit that researches and reviews, for parents and educators, the impact of media and technology on children. (I've used the free lessons from their <a href="https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship" target="_blank">Digital Citizenship Program</a> when creating library programs about cyber safety for kids.) This week, they released a new report that updates their findings from 2015, showing dramatic rises in smartphone ownership among children and teens, and substantial increases in time spent watching online videos. Check out the <a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/Media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2019-infographic" target="_blank">infographic</a> summarizing their findings, or read the new "<a href="https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2019" target="_blank">Media Use by Tweens and Teens, 2019</a>" report. News coverage is linked below.
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</li><li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774306250/report-more-than-half-of-u-s-children-now-own-a-smartphone-by-age-11" target="_blank">More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Own A Smartphone By Age 11</a> [<em>Morning Edition</em>] "A majority of kids are getting their first phones younger and younger. In 2015, the last time they did this survey, most kids had a phone by age 14. And now it's just over half have their first phone by age 11. And about 1 in 5 have one by the age of 8 years old."</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://news.yahoo.com/common-sense-census-media-tweens-teens-research-finds-040100601.html" target="_blank">New Research Finds YouTube Videos Beat Out TV and Video Games as Entertainment of Choice for Tweens and Teens</a> [<em>PR Newswire</em>] "Among teens, only listening to music beat out watching online videos, with playing video games, watching TV, and using social media trailing behind. And reading lags way behind."</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-10-28-common-sense-survey-homework-gets-more-digital-for-teens-and-tweens" target="_blank">Homework Gets More Digital for Teens and Tweens</a> [<em>EdSurge</em>] "On average lower-income teens spend less time than higher-income teens using computers for homework (34 vs. 55 minutes per day) and more time using smartphones to get assignments done (21 vs. 12 minutes per day)."</li>
<li style="text-align:justify;font-size:16px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><a href="https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614619/screen-time-is-good-for-youmaybe/" target="_blank">Screen time is good for you—maybe</a> [<em>Technology Review</em>] "Przybylski says his analysis suggests that children who are using a digital device—a television, video game console, tablet, laptop, smartphone, or any other gadget with a screen—have better social and emotional skills than kids who don’t use this technology."</li>
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<p style="text-align:left;font-size:20px;font-family:arial;line-height:110%"><small><strong><em>From the <a href="http://ohioweblibrary.org" target="_blank">Ohio Web Library</a>:</em></strong></small><br>
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<li>Heller, Rafael. “<a href="https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=128243963&site=ehost-live" target="_blank">The Data on Children’s Media Use: An Interview with Michael Robb</a>.” <em>Phi Delta Kappan</em>, vol. 99, no. 6, Mar. 2018, p. 20. </li>
<li>Dorau, Bethany Groff. “<a href="https://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=134162027" target="_blank">Smartphones and Children: Overview</a>.” <em>Points of View: Smartphones & Children</em>, Dec. 2018, p. 1.</li>
<li>Bond, Bradley J. “<a href="https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=128699242&site=ehost-live" target="_blank">Following Your 'Friend': Social Media and the Strength of Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationships with Media Personae</a>.” <em>CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking</em>, vol. 19, no. 11, Nov. 2016, pp. 656–660.</li>
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