Tamar Lewin reported in her article from the New York Times about a Kaiser Family Foundation study, which finds that children between ages 8-18 spend almost every moment that they aren’t in school using some sort of electronic or media consuming device.

The average young American now spends practically every waking minute—except for the time in school—using a smart phone, computer, television or other electronic device, according to a new study from the Kaiser Family Foundation.

Thanks to time leveraging provided by multi-tasking, your average 7+ hours of time with electronics is supersaturated to contain 11 hours of media. Machines are changing not just the individual lives of your children but affecting whole generations. I’m no luddite but this is bound to have some implications…

See article:

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/nyt/20100120_Children_awake_Then_theyre_probably_online.html