[OPLIN 4cast] OPLIN 4Cast #670: Kids spending more times staring at screens, but maybe that's a good thing

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OPLIN 4Cast #670: Kids spending more times staring at screens, but maybe
that's a good thing
October 30th, 2019

[image: School boy using smart phone] 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 Digital
Citizenship Program
<https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship> 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 infographic
<https://www.commonsensemedia.org/Media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2019-infographic>
summarizing their findings, or read the new "Media Use by Tweens and Teens,
2019
<https://www.commonsensemedia.org/research/the-common-sense-census-media-use-by-tweens-and-teens-2019>"
report. News coverage is linked below.

   -
   - More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Own A Smartphone By Age 11
   <https://www.npr.org/2019/10/29/774306250/report-more-than-half-of-u-s-children-now-own-a-smartphone-by-age-11>
   [*Morning Edition*] "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."
   - New Research Finds YouTube Videos Beat Out TV and Video Games as
   Entertainment of Choice for Tweens and Teens
   <https://news.yahoo.com/common-sense-census-media-tweens-teens-research-finds-040100601.html>
   [*PR Newswire*] "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."
   - Homework Gets More Digital for Teens and Tweens
   <https://www.edsurge.com/news/2019-10-28-common-sense-survey-homework-gets-more-digital-for-teens-and-tweens>
   [*EdSurge*] "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)."
   - Screen time is good for you—maybe
   <https://www.technologyreview.com/s/614619/screen-time-is-good-for-youmaybe/>
   [*Technology Review*] "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."

*From the Ohio Web Library <http://ohioweblibrary.org>:*

   - Heller, Rafael. “The Data on Children’s Media Use: An Interview with
   Michael Robb
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=f5h&AN=128243963&site=ehost-live>
   .” *Phi Delta Kappan*, vol. 99, no. 6, Mar. 2018, p. 20.
   - Dorau, Bethany Groff. “Smartphones and Children: Overview
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2054/login.aspx?direct=true&db=pwh&AN=134162027>
   .” *Points of View: Smartphones & Children*, Dec. 2018, p. 1.
   - Bond, Bradley J. “Following Your 'Friend': Social Media and the
   Strength of Adolescents’ Parasocial Relationships with Media Personae
   <https://proxy.oplin.org:2111/login.aspx?direct=true&db=buh&AN=128699242&site=ehost-live>
   .” *CyberPsychology, Behavior & Social Networking*, vol. 19, no. 11,
   Nov. 2016, pp. 656–660.

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