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The Kaiser Family Foundation's recent survey of teen media use found that:

Today, 8-18 year-olds devote [emphasis mine] an average of 7 hours and 38 minutes (7:38) to using entertainment media across a typical day (more than 53 hours a week). 

I am struck by the KFF's use of the word "devote" here - it seems out of place.  "Devotion" implies (to me) a reverence for the time of one's life and the use of it for higher purposes.  More likely, I reckon KFF's survey kids "found themselves spending time with" media - they did not "devote themselves" to it. 

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This Wikispaces page supports an easily-grokked activity structure for teachers dipping their toes into Learning 2.0.

Application: a Professional Learning Community exploring Blended Learning might include this early on, before developing project ideas that incorporate some of these tools.