SAS 2012

“A Week in the Life”: A Visual Analysis of Internet Use by School-Age Students
This study took data of the Internet web hits for one week for the students at Cary Academy, a grades 6–12 independent public school in Cary, North Carolina. All students have their own school-issued tablet PC. Social networks are blocked while students are in school. Student web hits were monitored from 8 a.m. to Midnight for a school week. It was discovered that student Internet use was up to twice as frequent outside of school, with the use of social network sites increasing greatly for upper-school students, with only a small increase for middle school students. All students showed a significant use of “streaming” websites, a more recent Internet trend. Conclusively, Internet use is not “out of control” in the classroom.

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