Startling Statistics

Technology in the home has increased exponentially in the past few decades. This effects not only home lift relationships, education, work, religion and every are of life. With children's minds being stimulated in this way at home, it determines what their minds are going to be expecting in the classroom and what will actually be enough to grab their attention. Here are some statistics I found on this topic.


Playstation or Playground?



parents choice foundation

Children, TV, Computers and More Media: New Research Shows Pluses, Minuses

"Children use computers at very young ages – 21 percent of children 2 years and younger, 58 percent of 3- to 4-year-olds, and 77 percent of 5- to 6-year-olds, in a study led by Calvert and funded by NSF and the Kaiser Foundation. According to their parents, children began to use computers on their parents’ laps at about 2-and-a-half years and independently at about 3-and-a-half years."

national science foundation