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 Posted: Sun Nov 20, 2011 2:24 pm Post subject: Internet Activities |
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The Internet supports a broad range of activities. Students use the Internet as a medium
to communicate, to find information, to have fun, and to do homework. While electronic mail is
the Internet application most widely used by adults (U.S. Department of Commerce 2000),
among students, e-mail (or instant messaging) and playing games are approximately tied for the
rank of the second most popular Internet activity, after completing school assignments (table
8A). About 46 percent of students use the Internet for school work, while 36 percent use e-mail
or instant messaging and 38 percent play games.
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In contrast to the discussion of computer activities, which was limited by the CPS design to activities at home, this
discussion of Internet activities applies to activities at any location where the Internet is used. CPS data do not allow
separate examination of Internet activities at home or at school. 31
As shown in table 8A, from 8 to 21 percent of students use the Internet to find
information about news, weather, sports, and products, to watch or listen to television, movies, or
radio, and to make purchases.
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Smaller percentages use the Internet for other purposes.
The activities for which students use the Internet vary by grade level. Among children in
nursery school and kindergarten, the most common activity is playing games (15 percent in
nursery school and 21 percent in kindergarten). Among students in grades 1 through 5,
completing school assignments is about as common as playing games (31 and 32 percent,
respectively). At higher grade levels, game playing levels off at or below 50 percent, while using
the Internet for school assignments and e-mail or instant messaging increase. Completing school
assignments is the most common activity for which students in grades 6–8 and 9–12 use the
Internet (61 and 73 percent, respectively). E-mail or instant messaging (46 percent) is about as
common as playing games (47 percent) in grades 6-8, and is more common than playing games
in grades 9–12 (64 percent compared to 49 percent).
Tables 8B and 8C show that patterns of difference in other aspects of the digital divide
are reflected in the rates at which students use the Internet for specific applications. Students
whose parents have any graduate education or whose family income is $75,000 or more are
roughly twice as likely as students whose parents have not completed high school or whose
family income is less than $20,000 to use the Internet to complete school assignments, and are
more than twice as likely to use the Internet to find information. White students, Asian students,
and students of more than one race are more likely to use the Internet to complete school
assignments than are Hispanic and Black students. White students and students of more than one
race are more likely than American Indian students to use the Internet to complete school
assignments.
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