Podcast Assignment: Profiling the Students of Today The URL for this podcast is http://digitallanguage.podbean.com/ I am a second grade teacher at Lee Antonello Elementary in North Las Vegas, Nevada. There are currently twenty two students in my classroom. My classroom consists of 46% Hispanic/Latin, 36% Caucasian, 9% African American, 9% Asian. Here is the questionnaire I created based on this week’s assignment. All questions are gauged for a daily basis. 1. How much time do you spend watching TV? 2. How much time do you talk on a cell phone? 3. How much time do you spend using a computer? 4. How much time do you spend using a computer to complete homework? 5. How much time do you spend surfing the web? 6. How much time do you spend texting with friends? 7. How much time do you spend instant messaging with friends? 8. How much time do you spend playing video games? 9. Is there anything else you spending a lot of time on? 10. Is there any other kind of technology you use at home? 11. Is there any other kind of technology you use at school? 12. Do you know what Facebook is? 13. Do you have a Facebook page? 14. Do your parents have a Facebook page? 15. Are there any other things like Facebook that you use? 16. Are there any other things like Facebook that your parents use? I chose three students, all with different backgrounds. My first student was Joey, a typical seven year old Caucasian. He is also an A & B honor roll student. The second student I chose was Tiana. Tiana is a seven year old American Asian, and she was a straight A student. The third student I chose was Leo a seven year old Hispanic American. Here are Joey’s responses: 1. How much time do you spend watching TV? Two hours a night 2. How much time do you spend talking on a cell phone? I don’t have a cell phone. 3. How much time do you spend using a computer? If it is a game like an hour. 4. How much time do you spend using a computer to complete homework? I don’t use the computer to do my homework. 5. How much time do you spend surfing the web? I don’t, sometimes if I have to for school, then my mom or dad have to help me. 6. How much time do you spend texting with friends? Sometimes my mom and dad let me text my big brother. 7. How much time do you spend instant messaging with friends? My mom and dad don’t let me do anything like that. 8. How much time do you spend playing video games? 2 or 3 hours a day and the weekend I might spend like four or five hours. 9. Is there anything else you spending a lot of time on? I play basketball at the YMCA. 10. Is there any other kind of technology you use at home? Yea my Nintendo 3DS. 11. Is there any other kind of technology you use at school? Yes, we go on ST Math or Ticket to Read. 12. Do you know what Facebook is? Yes. 13. Do you have a Facebook page? No 14. Do your parents have a Facebook page? I don’t think so, but my big brother does. 15. Are there any other things like Facebook that you use? No 16. Are there any other things like Facebook that your parents use? I don’t think so. Here are Tiana’s responses: 1. How much time do you spend watching TV? Sometimes I watch for an hour when my homework is done. 2. How much time do you talk on a cell phone? I don’t have a cell phone. 3. How much time do you spend using a computer? At school I use it every day for maybe half an hour. 4. How much time do you spend using a computer to complete homework? I don’t need the computer to finish my homework. 5. How much time do you spend surfing the web? Sometimes my mom lets me for an hour. 6. How much time do you spend texting with friends? Sometimes I text my cousins on my mom’s phone. 7. How much time do you spend instant messaging with friends? I don’t know what that is. 8. How much time do you spend playing video games? Not much, my mom and dad don’t like video games. Sometimes on the weekends we play the Wii. 9. Is there anything else you spending a lot of time on? Playing outside. 10. Is there any other kind of technology you use at home? I play on my DDS when my homework is done for a couple of hours. 11. Is there any other kind of technology you use at school? We use the ELMO and the Smartboard. 12. Do you know what Facebook is? Yes 13. Do you have a Facebook page? No 14. Do your parents have a Facebook page? Yes 15. Are there any other things like Facebook that you use? No 16. Are there any other things like Facebook that your parents use? I think they use Twitter. Here are Leo’s responses: 1. How much time do you spend watching TV? A lot I love cartoons. Like 3 or 4 hours. 2. How much time do you talk on a cell phone? I talk to my cousins on my mom’s phone for like half an hour. 3. How much time do you spend using a computer? I play games on my dad’s computer like for two hours. 4. How much time do you spend using a computer to complete homework? I go to ST Math or Ticket to Read like for an hour. 5. How much time do you spend surfing the web? My parents don’t let me do that. 6. How much time do you spend texting with friends? I don’t have a phone but sometimes I text my cousins on my mom’s phone. 7. How much time do you spend instant messaging with friends? Is that like texting? 8. How much time do you spend playing video games? All day if I could, like two or three hours. 9. Is there anything else you spending a lot of time on? I play me DDS for an hour. 10. Is there any other kind of technology you use at home? No 11. Is there any other kind of technology you use at school? The IPods. 12. Do you know what Facebook is? Yes 13. Do you have a Facebook page? I will when I’m an adult. 14. Do your parents have a Facebook page? Yes 15. Are there any other things like Facebook that you use? No 16. Are there any other things like Facebook that your parents use? I’ve seen my dad on twitter. Based these three responses, I took an average of the three individual responses to create a classroom demographic. After compiling the data, here are the classroom daily averages: 1. How much time do you spend watching TV? 2 hours 2. How much time do you talk on a cell phone? 0 hours 3. How much time do you spend using a computer? 1 hour 4. How much time do you spend using a computer to complete homework? 0 hours 5. How much time do you spend surfing the web? 0 hours 6. How much time do you spend texting with friends? 0 hours 7. How much time do you spend instant messaging with friends? 0 hours 8. How much time do you spend playing video games? 2 hours 9. Is there anything else you spending a lot of time on? Nintendo 3DS- 1 hour 10. Is there any other kind of technology you use at home? Nintendo 3DS- 1 hour 11. Is there any other kind of technology you use at school? IPods, Websites: ST Math, and Ticket to Read 12. Do you know what Facebook is? Yes 13. Do you have a Facebook page? No 14. Are there any other things like Facebook that you use? No 15. Are there any other things like Facebook that your parents use? 2 Sets of Parents use Twitter.