As I read my article, I also thought about how I was going to make the infograph. I have never made one before and I was really stressing over it. I did find out that it is very easy to do. In fact, I liked making it.
In the article that I read, "Teens, Social Media, and Technology" by Amanda Lemhart, it stated that teens from 13-17 use social media. I found it very interesting that depending on the ethnic backgrounds depended on what and how often they used social media.
24% of all teens go online constantly, 92% go online daily, 56% go online several times a day, 12%go online once a day, and 6% go online weekly.
85% of African-American teens have and use smart phones, whereas, 71% of Hispanics and whites use them. Of this data, 91% of teens go online with mobile devices. Of the 91%, 94% go online daily. Of this data, 34% of African-American teens, 32% of Hispanics, and 19% of whites are online with mobile devices almost constantly.
The following percentages show how many of all teens use the following social media:
Facebook-71%, Instagram-52%, Snapchat-41%, Twitter and Google+- 33%, Vine-24%, Tumblr-14%, and different social media sites- 11%.
I was amazed at the differences with the different ethnicities on who uses what media and how often. When I was teaching middle school, I was amazed at how many students had smart phones. It was not the white students that had them, so I am believing this article by seeing the data for myself.
Lemhart, A., (2015). Teens, social media, & technology overview 2015. Retrieved from: http://www.pewinternet.org.
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ReplyDeleteYour infographic is very interesting. It demonstrates that the trend towards teen usage relies heavily on going online with their mobile devices, and that most of them tend to go online daily and most of them several times a day. This just goes to prove that our younger generation is more technologically oriented and it is the wave of the future. I enjoyed your infographic.
Smartphones will make us deal with information ethics issues, fair use, how to stay safe on the Internet, how to handle all the extra bandwidth in schools, and the like. If a student can get 4G on his or her phone, they can really access anything. It's even more imperative now than it ever was to make sure students know what's appropriate in school!
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing this information; I am surprised that so many teens go on the internet every day. I knew that it would be a high number, but that is nearly all of them! I agree with Dr. Gross, that digital citizenship is critical for our students. Even with filters on our wi-fi, students find ways to access inappropriate content.
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