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Quite the sign of a different generation! A new study shows almost 40% of 1)toddlers today use mobile devices, probably even before they can speak. It found 38% of American children under age two in 2013 have used a mobile device for media. It’s believable. A quick search on YouTube will find plenty of babies using iPads, some still with 2)Binkies. Kids typically start 3)stringing words together around age two. The study, commissioned by Common Sense Media, also found 72% of kids under age eight have used mobile devices. That’s up from 38% in 2011. Access is a big part of the change. The research shows among families with kids eight and under there’s been a five-fold increase in ownership of tablet devices, such as iPads, over the past two years. Other findings include that, since 2011, the percentage of kids who use mobile devices on the daily has more than doubled from 8% to 17%, and the amount of time spent on such devices has tripled. Kids still watch TV more than any other medium, but how they watch is changing, with more shows being DVRed,for example. And the dramatic changes over two years seem to indicate a bigger change ahead. 4)Mashable quotes the Director of Common Sense Media, “Kids that can’t even talk will walk up to a TV screen and try to 5)swipe it like an iPad or an iPhone.” Magazines are just as useless. Still, New York Magazine says, don’t judge too quickly. This change might not be bad. It all has to do with passive and active screen time for kids under two. If kids are ready to 6)zone out in front of a screen, it delays their language development, but active communication on programs like Skype actually might help. But right now the American Academy of Pediatrics still recommends no television and entertainment media for kids under the age of two because there’s so much brain development happening in those years. Young children learn best by interacting with people, not screens. Well, a change is gonna come, iPhone and Binkies in hand.
新一代的绝对标志!一项新研究显示:如今有近四成刚学会走路的儿童使用移动设备,甚至在会说话之前就已经开始了。研究发现,在2013年,在两岁以下的美国儿童中,曾用过移动设备看节目的占38%。这一数据是可信的。在YouTube上快速搜索一下就能发现相当多婴幼儿使用iPad的视频,有些甚至还含着奶嘴。通常,儿童在两岁左右开始连词成句。这项由共识媒体咨询公司委托的研究还发现,72%八岁以下的儿童曾使用过移动设备;而2011年的数字仅为38%。发生这一转变的一个重要原因是移动设备的普及。这项研究显示,过去两年中,在有八岁以下孩子的家庭中,iPad等平板设备的拥有率就增加了五倍之多;其他的发现还包括,自2011年以来,每日孩子使用移动设备的比例翻番,由8%上涨到了17%,同时花在此类设备上的时间增加至三倍。小孩看电视的时间依旧比使用其他媒介的时间要多,但观看的方式正在发生改变。例如,越来越多的节目以视频录像的形式呈现。过去两年这些惊人的变化似乎预示着更大的变化即将到来。Mashable网站引用共识媒体咨询公司总监的话说:“即使还不会说话的孩子,都会走到电视机前,像使用iPad或iPhone那样,试图滑动电视屏幕。”杂志同样显得多余。但是,《纽约杂志》却说:不要草率地下结论,这一改变也许并不是坏事。关键是两岁以下儿童被动和主动接触屏幕时间的长短。如果孩子们面对屏幕时精力不集中,那么他们的语言发育将被延迟,但像Skype这种积极的交流方式或许会有所帮助。但至今为止,美国儿科学会依旧建议两岁以下儿童不宜看电视节目和使用娱乐媒体,因为孩子在那一时期大脑发育非常活跃。孩子只有与人交流才能学得最好,而不是与屏幕打交道。好了,有了iPhone与奶嘴,改变终将来到。
diversity 分集
Base Station (BS) 基站
Electronic Serial Number (ESN) 电子串行号
soft handover/handoff 软切换
Code Division Multiple Access (CDMA) 码分多址
Wideband Code Division Multiple Access (WCDMA)
宽带码多分址
Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM)
全球移动通信系统
Worldwide Interoperability for Microwave Access (WiMax)全球微波互联接入
handheld game console 掌上游戏机mobile phone 移动电话
smartphone 智能手机
tablet computer 平板电脑
short message service 短信服务instant message (IM) 即时消息
mobile data network 手机数据网络picture message 图片彩信
emoticon 表情符号
chat app 聊天程序