(IT) 신세대 아이들의 IT 몰입
(IT) 신세대 아이들의 IT 몰입
And a generation of Americans reaches critical mass. Mass media. Spending as much time online as they do sleeping. From CBS News world headquarters in New York, this is the CBS Evening News. They say it was once quite common. Some people are still old enough to remember it. A time when you’d see a child who was not tethered묶다 to some kind of electronic device. In fact in tonight’s Eye on Technology, John Blackstone tells us the average child now spends virtually every moment out of bed and out of school hooked on electronics.
When 13-year-old Monica Bi gets together with friends, they can't wait to share the latest toy. It's no secret that kids today have plenty of distractions오락. “It’s just funnier than homework.” A new study says 8 to 18-year-olds now spend as much time listening to music, watching TV and being entertained on line as most adults spend at work. "Kids are spending an average of more than seven and a half hours a day, seven days a week using media. That's more than 53 hours a week. I mean that's a full-time job."
But it's not the full story. For almost three hours a day, kids are multi-tasking like listening to music while using the Internet. “You must all be able to do at least two things at once now. Right?” It all adds up to more than an hour a day playing video games, almost an hour and a half on a computer, more than two and a half hours listening to music, and nearly four and a half watching TV shows.
According to the study, teens now spend one hour, 17 minutes more using media than they did five years ago. And there's a link between media use and poor grades. Almost half of heavy users, more than 16 hours a day, reported getting Cs or lower. Just 23% of light users, under 3 hours a day, got Cs or lower. Homework and media don't mix well. “I don’t think that you can really do both at once.”
The researchers found that kids do cut back when parents make the rules like no TV over dinner and no TV set in a child's bedroom. "It really has an impact. I think parents may realize that they have more influence than perhaps they thought." And there’s another parental influence to consider their example. A separate study by the Nielsen Company found that adults in their early 40s spend even more time watching online videos than teens do. John Blackstone, CBS News, San Francisco.