Since I don’t have my own class this year, I “borrowed” classroom students I have substituted for. I was able to rustle up permission as I know the parents of the students I interviewed.
The students I interviewed are middle class from a small town. The classroom demographics is about 15% Hispanic with the remainder 85% being Caucasian.
The students all have video games,parents' cell phones, Netflix on demand T.V. and computers in their homes. The interviewees spend an average of two hours a day watching T.V. They all play video games daily with the exception of one student who rarely plays video games and when she does it’s only ½ hour at a time. None of the students have a cell phone although they have school mates who do even at 3rd grade!
What surprised me was how the students use computers at home. I thought they would use computers for games, social networking, or surfing, but the students said computers used at home was for skill building school subjects, especially math.
At school they have access to computer labs twice a week for 1/2 hour each visit. There are also several computers in the classroom. The teacher uses a doc. cam. DVD player, and T.V. None of the studnets had ever been involved in a podcast before so it was a first for all of us.
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