[CASL-L] Digital & young children

[IRENE KWIDZINSKI]

FYI and posted on the CASL ning Resources tab:
Always Connected: The new digital habits of young children by Sesame Workshop 
and the Joan Ganz Cooney Center
http://www.joanganzcooneycenter.org/Reports-28.html

Here is a snapshot of their findings (page 5):• Children have more access to all 
kinds of digital media,
>and are spending more time during the day with them than ever before.
>• Not all children have access to newer digital technologies, nor do all 
>children use media in the same ways once they do own them. Family income 
>continues to be a barrier to some children owning technology, even as the price 
>of devices falls.
>• Lower-income, Hispanic, and African American children
>consume far more media than their middle-class and
>white counterparts.
>• Children appear to shift their digital media habits around age 8, when they 
>increasingly open their eyes to the wide world of media beyond television.
>• Mobile media appears to be the next “it” technology, from handheld video games 
>to portable music players to cell phones. Kids like to use their media on the 
>go.
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