Research Shows Just How Connected Today’s Kids Are to Technology →
K5 Learning Blog, a blog by the online reading and math program K5 Learning that follows educational issues with advocacy for parent involvement, recently reported that a number of studies have highlighted how connected and digitally tuned in kids are today to technology.
The reports showed the following interesting and fun facts:
- More than half of two- to four-year-olds use a computer.
- A quarter of kids go online by age three and half are there by age five.
- Nine percent of Toddlers between ages two and five can tie their shoes laces, while 19 percent of them can work a smartphone app. More of them can open a web browser than swim unaided.
- Children ages 8 to 18 spend on average 7 hours and 38 minutes using entertainment media.
- As they multitask, kids pack 10 hours and 48 minutes worth of media content into those roughly 7.5 hours.
There were a couple of o_O moments in here.
