Online Learning Update

June 24, 2012

U.S. Youth Spend More Time on Computers, Less in Front of TV

Filed under: Online Learning News — Ray Schroeder @ 12:05 am

by DYLAN SCOTT, Governing

America’s youth are plugging into their computers more and watching television a little less, according to the 2011 Youth Risk Behavior Surveillance Survey released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) last week. According to the survey, 31.1 percent of high school students spend three hours or more on the computer every day (up from 24.9 percent in 2007 and 21.1 percent in 2005) while 32.4 percent watch three hours of television every day (down from 35.4 percent in 2007 and 37.2 in 2005). Habits vary significantly across states. Students in Hawaii (36.6 percent) are nearly twice as likely as their peers in Utah (18.7 percent) to log three or more hours daily on their computers. The same holds true for television: 42.6 percent of Mississippi youth spend three or more hours in front of the television every day, compared to 19.3 percent in Utah.

http://www.governing.com/blogs/view/gov-us-youth-spend-more-time-on-computers-less-in-front-of-tv.html

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