Numbers, Facts and Trends Shaping Your World
Throughout focus group discussions, teachers noted that their experiences with middle and high school students cannot be isolated from broader trends shaping this generation, and that much of what they see in their students’ academic habits, characteristics, and attitudes are reflections of much broader impacts of growing up in a digital age. To probe these […]
Overall cell ownership steady since 2009 According to the Pew Internet Project’s 2011 teen survey, three quarters (77%) of teens have a cell phone, a figure that is similar to the 75% of teens who owned a cell phone in September 2009 and up dramatically from the 45% of teens who were cell owners in […]
Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones.
Texting volume is up while the frequency of voice calling is down. About one in four teens say they own smartphones.