Peppler's Classroom Blog » Media http://peppler.edublogs.org For my students and their parents Mon, 12 Nov 2007 16:10:41 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 en hourly 1 The students were skeptical… http://peppler.edublogs.org/2006/12/20/the-students-were-skeptical/ http://peppler.edublogs.org/2006/12/20/the-students-were-skeptical/#comments Wed, 20 Dec 2006 16:40:44 +0000 peppler http://peppler.edublogs.org/2006/12/20/the-students-were-skeptical/ On Tuesday, I showed them some statistics that were reported in a Journal Sentinel article on Friday, Dec. 15, 2006 (Front page).  The U.S. Census Bureau predicted the amount of time we average Americans will spend consuming various media in 2007.  It is reported in terms of number of days per year spent in each of the activities. For example, the 1560 hours that we will spend watching TV next year is the equivalent of 65 days worth of a 365 day year.

According to the report, we will spend 65 watching TV, 41 days listening to radio, 9.5 days reading books and magazines, 8.1 days consuming internet media, and 7.3 days reading a newspaper.  These stats are compared to 2000 figures as well; the most significant change is internet media consumption, which is up from 4.3 days in 2000.

Even more revealing, in class we calculated how that translated into total hours per year, then hours per week, and finally, hours per day.  Wow.  Here’s what we found:

  • TV: 4.3 hours per day
  • Radio: 2.7
  • Books/magazines: .63
  • Internet:  .53 (we concluded that they must not be counting email and instant messaging!)
  • Newspapers: .48

How will this change, I wonder, by 2010?  2020? Hmmm…

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