{"id":3125,"date":"2026-01-09T13:37:52","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:37:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/study-teens-spend-hour-plus-on-their-phones-at-school\/"},"modified":"2026-01-09T13:37:52","modified_gmt":"2026-01-09T13:37:52","slug":"study-teens-spend-hour-plus-on-their-phones-at-school","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/2026\/01\/09\/study-teens-spend-hour-plus-on-their-phones-at-school\/","title":{"rendered":"Study: Teens spend hour-plus on their phones at school"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAAAAACH5BAEKAAEALAAAAAABAAEAAAICTAEAOw==\" width=\"120\" hspace=\"5\" alt=\"\" vspace=\"5\" align=\"left\" class=\"lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/sm.mashable.com\/t\/mashable_me\/news\/s\/study-teen\/study-teens-spend-hour-plus-on-their-phones-at-school_nrtr.640.jpg\">Teens aren&#x27;t using their phones to study or learn. Instead, they&#x27;re on these popular apps. <\/p>\n<p>Teens spend an average of 70 minutes on their smartphones during school hours, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/jamanetwork.com\/journals\/jama\/fullarticle\/10.1001\/jama.2025.23235?utm_campaign=articlePDF%26utm_medium=articlePDFlink%26utm_source=articlePDF%26utm_content=jama.2025.23235\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">new research<\/a> published Monday in <i>JAMA<\/i>. <\/p>\n<p>The study found that students aren&#8217;t using their devices for educational purposes, either. Instead, they&#8217;re mostly scrolling social media, racking up roughly 30 minutes per day \u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Teens aren&#x27;t using their phones to study or learn. Instead, they&#x27;re on these popular apps.<br \/>\nTeens spend an average of 70 minutes on their smartphones during school hours, according to new res<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3125","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-social-good"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3125"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3125\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bosco-wong.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}