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Report: The Most Active Online Are The Most Educated
12/16/2009 People who spend the most time online are in fact the most educated claims a recent report from Eurostat.
http://thenextweb.com/europe/2009/12/16/report-active-online-educated/
Children who use technology are 'better writers'
Children who blog, text or use social networking websites are more confident about their writing skills, according to the National Literacy Trust. A survey of 3,001 children aged nine to 16 found that 24% had their own blog and 82% sent text messages at least once a month.
To Read or Not To Read: A Question of National Consequence Executive Summary
This report is a new and comprehensive analysis of reading patterns of children, teenagers, and adults in the United States. To Read or Not To Read assembled data on reading trends from more than 40 sources, including federal agencies, universities, foundations, and associations. November 2007.
National Endowment for the Arts
Download PDF: http://www.nea.gov/research/ToRead_ExecSum.pdf
In their report on the National Adult Literacy Study, the US Department of Education identifies a class of adults who may not even meet criteria for functional illiteracy, but who still face reduced job opportunities and life prospects due to poor reading skills.[2] A study by the Jenkins Group has shown that millions of Americans never read another book after leaving school. (PDF) Adult Literacy in America, National Center for Educational Statistics, April 2002, http://nces.ed.gov/pubs93/93275.pdf, retrieved 2007-12-11
Robyn Jackson, Some startling statistics, University of Dayton, Erma Bombeck Writers' Workshop, http://www.humorwriters.org/startlingstats.html, (retrieved 2008-02-05 )
- 1/3 of high school graduates never read another book for the rest of their lives.
- 42 percent of college graduates never read another book after college.
- 80 percent of U.S. families did not buy or read a book last year.
- 70 percent of U.S. adults have not been in a bookstore in the last five years.
- 57 percent of new books are not read to completion.
DAILY MEDIA USE AMONG CHILDREN AND TEENS UP DRAMATICALLY FROM FIVE YEARS AGO
Most Youth Say They Have No Rules About How Much Time They Can Spend With TV, Video Games, or Computers WASHINGTON, D.C. – With technology allowing nearly 24-hour media access as children and teens go about their daily lives, the amount of time young people spend with entertainment media has risen dramatically, especially among minority youth, according to a study released today by the Kaiser Family Foundation. Today, 8-18 year-olds devote an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). And because they spend so much of that time ‘media multitasking’ (using more than one medium at a time), they actually manage to pack a total of 10 hours and 45 minutes (10:45) worth of media content into those 7½ hours.
media release and overview of findings: http://www.kff.org/entmedia/entmedia012010nr.cfm
The Report:
Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8- to 18-Year-Olds is the third in a series of large-scale, nationally representative surveys by the Foundation about young people's media use. It includes data from all three waves of the study (1999, 2004, and 2009), and is among the largest and most comprehensive publicly available sources of information about media use among American youth.
