Tuesday, August 02, 2005

Teens and Technology

Last week, the Pew Internet & American Life Project came out with results of their latest survey of teenagers and their use of technology. There really isn’t anything surprising here. But it does beg discussion of questions like: How are schools meeting the needs of the tech savvy teen? How will our unwillingness to ‘catch up’ impact the future of schools?

  1. Close to nine in ten teens are Internet users.
  2. Teens are technology rich and enveloped by a wired world.
  3. 45% of teens have cell phones and 33% are texting.
  4. Email is still a fixture in teens’ lives, but IM is preferred.
  5. The landline phone lives on.
  6. Teens share more than words over IM.
  7. IM and text messaging help teens stay in touch with their parents.
  8. Face-to-face time still beats phone and screen time for teens.
  9. Half of families with teens have broadband.
  10. Eight in ten wired teens play games online.
  11. Most teens use shared computers at home and growing numbers log on from libraries, school and other locations.
  12. The size of the wired teen population surges at the seventh grade.
  13. Older girls are power communicators and information seekers.
  14. Digital communications can lead to breaches of personal privacy.

The full report can be dowloaded from the Pew site.

Posted by Randy on 08/02 at 07:41 PM
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