U.S. High School Students Do Homework With Smartphones

A latest survey of junior high school age students, 39 percent of American students admit that they do homework with android smartphone, it is mean that more than one-third of American students to complete the job with smartphones.

Verizon Foundation commissioned the world's largest communications services group WPP's the TRU companies to investigate more than 10-year-old junior high school students to the use of electronic products. 28 release of the investigation report shows that 39% of students admit that they do their homework at home with cheap cell phones; 31% use a computer doing homework, and 65% with a laptop.

TRU Company survey responsible for Christie Salmi Sarmiento, an interview with Reuters, said: "The purpose of these high school students to the use of mobile electronic devices beyond the entertainment areas. They are accompanied by the generation of technology development to grow up."

Survey showed that the age of the smart phone to use the degree of an upward trend, the 6 graders use a ratio of 42%, 57% of the 8th graders.

This is the first time, the survey showed that students using mobile devices to complete the job. Students just mentioned in the previous survey, the mobile device for entertainment and to keep in touch with other people.

Although more than 66% of the students are not allowed to use the Tablet PC in the classroom, and 88% are not allowed to use smart phones, but the survey shows that students willing to study the use of electronic equipment, especially in mathematics Salmi Sarmiento said, , science, technology, showed more interest. Even students of low-income families, the proportion reached 29% use smartphones homework.

Verizon Foundation President Rose Stuckey Kirk said: "Our research supports the fact that mobile technology can motivate students to learn."