3. “A child born in the last 10 years has
access and actively uses digital
technologies and information as a critical
part of their daily lives from an early age”
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(Ioanna Palaiologou, 2016)
4. “Children now rely on
technology for the
majority of their play,
grossly limiting challenges
to their creativity and
imaginations, as well as
limiting necessary
challenges to their bodies
to achieve optimal sensory
and motor development.”
(Rowan, 2013)
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7. “Hard-wired for high speed, today’s
young are entering school struggling with
self regulation and attention skills
necessary for learning, eventually
becoming significant behavior
management problems for teachers in the
classroom.”
(Rowan, 2013)
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Parents have also learnt to alter the
way they interact with their kids:
“learning to summon the children for
chores using text messages, and to
check Facebook to determine if they’d
woken up” (Bielski, 2013)
10. “Our brains as adolescents and digital natives
have adapted to this media influence and
because we've grown up with it we're able to
cope with all these different stimuli”
–Alexandra
(Reddy, 2014)
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12. 57% of teens have met a
new friend online. Social
media and online
gameplay are the most
common digital venues
for meeting friends”
(Lenhart, 2015)
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13. “Just 25% of
teens spend
time with
friends in
person (outside
of school) on a
daily basis.”
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(Lenhart, 2015)
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“Teens who are on social media for more
than two hours a day, a full one-quarter of
students in the study, report poor self-rated
mental health, psychological distress,
suicidal ideation or unmet need for mental
health support.” (Payne, 2015)
15. “53% of social media-using
teens have seen people
posting to social media about
events to which they were not
invited.”
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(Lenhart, 2015)
17. “When they are first beginning to
use media, boys and girls spend
the same amount of time
watching TV, reading, listening to
music and using computers.”
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(Rideout et al., 2003)
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As they grow, their tendencies
change: “Boys are more likely than
girls to make online friends: 61% of
boys compared to 52% of girls have
done so.” (Lenhart, 2015)
20. “The findings here indicate
that students may hear of
news through social media,
but rely on other internet
sources to confirm it.”
(Brown et al., 2016)
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