Time Use of Smartphones by Young Aspiring Minds ##plugins.themes.bootstrap3.article.main## Abstract Children and youth in India have in the last decade become increasingly technology-driven,revealing considerable potential and readiness to imbibe and learn using digital media. This study was conducted to find out the time Indian Young Aspiring Minds (YAM) spent on their smartphones for academic activities. Digital India has been envisioned as an ambitious umbrella programmed to transform India into a digitally empowered society and knowledge economy. This paper is going to assess the time -use of smartphones for academic activities by 'Young Aspiring Minds'(YAM). The sample is Teacher trainees of B.Ed. The data is going to be collected by using global estimates of time to measure various amounts of time spent on smartphones in a typical exam day. Respondents were asked to simply to state the number of hours or to respond to a Likert-type scale based on hours. The average time spent for doing web research, watching U-Tube videos, Sharing and discussing work (WhatsApp etc.) was more by YAM males whereas for reading e- books YAM females were spending more hours through their smartphones. The findings of the study indicated that today's YAM are spending majority of their time on smartphones for various academic activities. References Ben-Arieh, A. (2010). From child welfare to children well-being: The child indicators perspective. In From child welfare to child well-being (pp. 9-22). Springer Netherlands. Ben-Arieh, A., & Ofir, A. (2002). Opinion, dialogue, review: Time for (more) time-use studies: Studying the daily activities of children. Childhood, 9(2), 225-248. Brooker, A. S., & Hyman, I. (2010). Time use: A report of the Canadian index of wellbeing (CIW). Canadian Index of Wellbeing. Carvin, A. (2006). Learning now: At the crossroads of Internet culture & education with host Andy Carvin. New government report exposes the school-home digital divide. Chen, S. Y., & Lu, L. (2009). After-school time use in Taiwan: Effects on educational achievement and well-being. Adolescence, 44(176), 891. Dar, M. A. (2016, July). Role of smartphone in rural development: A case study of Kashmir. In Technological Innovations in ICT for Agriculture and Rural Development (TIAR), 2016 IEEE (pp. 205-208). IEEE. Devi, S., Rizwaan, M., & Chander, S. (2012). ICT for Quality of Education in India. International Journal of Physical and Social Sciences, 2(6), 542-554. Fuligni, A. J., & Stevenson, H. W. (1995). Time Use and Mathematics Achievement among American, Chinese, and Japanese High School Students. Child Development, 66(3), 830–842. Hanafin, S., & Brooks, A. M. (2005). Report on the development of a national set of child well-being indicators in Ireland. Stationery Office. Kanjilal, U., & Kaul, P. (2016). The Journey of SWAYAM: India MOOCs Initiative. Kolari, S., Savander-Ranne, C., & Viskari, E. L. (2008). Learning needs time and effort: a time-use study of engineering students. European Journal of Engineering Education, 33(5-6), 483-498. Lam, C. B., & McHale, S. M. (2015). Time Use as Cause and Consequence of Youth Development. Child Development Perspectives, 9(1), 20–25. Lenhart, A., Ling, R., Campbell, S., & Purcell, K. (2010). Teens and mobile phones:text messaging explodes as teens embrace it as the centerpiece of their communication strategies with friends. Pew Internet and American Life Project. Communication Studies. Rego, R. (2017). New Media Technologies in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education. Media Watch, 8(1), 75-88. Rideout, V.J., Foher, U.G., Roberts, D.F. (2010). Generation M2: Media in the Lives of 8-18-Year-Olds: A Kaiser Family Foundation Study. Menlo Park, Calif. Soupourmas, F. (2005). Work, Rest and Leisure–Trends in Late Adolescent Time Use in Australia in the 1990s. Loisir et Société/Society and Leisure, 28(2), 571-589. SWAYAM Portal www.swayam.gov.in Vogler, P., Morrow, V., & Woodhead, M. (2009). Conceptualising and measuring children's time use. Young Lives Technical Note 14. Wight, V. R., Price, J., Bianchi, S. M., & Hunt, B. R. (2009). The time -use of teenagers. Social Science Research, 38(4), 792-809. Zuzanek, J. (2005). Adolescent time-use and well-being from a comparative perspective. Society & Leisure, 28(2), 379-423. Download Article Download PDF Submission Details Published: 2018-12-31 Issue: Volume - 4 (2018) Section: Article Authors Sheeba Naz Author Biography Ph.D. Scholar Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Prof. Jessy Abraham Author Biography Dept. of Teacher Training & NFE(I.A.S.E) Jamia Millia Islamia, New Delhi Keywords Time Use, Digital India, Digital Technology (DT), Smartphones, Young Aspiring Minds(YAM)
