The App Gap

New research by Common Sense Media indicates a growing disparity in high-tech access.  As reported in Education Week (November 2, 2011), the research indicates, on the one hand, that more than half of young children now have access at home to new mobile devices such as smart phones and iPad type tablets and more than a quarter of parents have downloaded apps for their children to use.  On the other hand, only 14 percent of low-income parents have ever downloaded a mobile application for their children, compared with 47 percent of wealthier parents. 

The Common Sense Media research points out that television is still the media format most used by children.  Two-thirds of children 8 and younger watch television at least once a day, and 42 percent have a TV in their bedroom.

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