Everyday+Life+with+Technology

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When was the last time you heard someone say, "The bad part about having a cell phone is that people can contact you wherever you are, that can get really annoying..." ("Kids discuss". 2005) ====== ====How many people do you know that are anything like this... "Until I was in 7th grade, I didn't have a computer and my family valued books a lot. I have walls of books in my house, so for research projects I was usually able to just get a book and type it on my typewriter. By the time I was 12, I read my whole library."? ("Kids discuss", 2005) ====

**Technology Timeline **
part of their education. · 83% of these teens believed that a loss of this technology would take a toll on their academic success. (Whelan, 2004) ||
 * 2004 || · 97% of the 210,000 teens [grades 7-12] surveyed found advanced technology to be a very important

· 51% [11 million] of these teens used the internet as a daily resource in other areas of their life: ü communication purposes- //IM or email// ü entertainment-//games// ü seek health information ü receive news ü make purchase ü download music (Lenhart, Hitlin & Madden, 2005) · 81% of teens ages 12-17 claimed to own at least one personal advance electronic device such as cell <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">phones, lap tops or digital planners/palms · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">45% of teenagers own a cell phone while 33% of them are texting. (Lenhart et al., 2005) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2005 || · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">roughly 87% [21 million] of teens ages 12-17 used the internet.

<span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">(Brynko, 2007) · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">94% of this teen population had parents also using the internet. · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">71% rely on advanced technology, claiming it makes their everyday tasks easier. (Brynko, 2007) ||
 * <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2007 || · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">In 2007, the amount of teens that internet used the internet increased to 93%, from the 87% in 2005.

<span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">**than seven and a half hours a day** using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif'; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">Lewin · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">young people spend **an average of two hours each day** taking in media through handheld <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">electronic devices ( <span style="font-family: 'Cambria','serif';">Lewin, 2010). · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">Victoria Rideout, a Kaiser vice president who is lead author of the study, expressed how quickly <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">popular technology is evolving, “One of the hot topics today is Twitter,” she says, “but when we <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in; text-indent: -0.25in;">first went into the field and began interviewing, Twitter didn’t [even] exist.” || **<span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%;"> Primary Research ** media type="custom" key="7689343"
 * <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt; line-height: normal; margin: 0in 0in 0pt;">2009 || · <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 12pt;">According to the recent Kaiser Family Foundation study done in 2009, youth ages 8 to 18 spend **more**

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Footlight MT Light','serif'; font-size: 36pt; line-height: 115%;">24 Hours Without Technology **

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