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Only 57% teens use smartphones for study: ASER
The New Indian Express Villupuram
|January 29, 2025
MORE than 82% of children aged 14-16 in India know how to use smartphones, but only 57% of them use them for educational purposes whereas 76% use the device for accessing social media, according to the Annual Status of Education Report (ASER) 2024 released on Tuesday.
This time, the surveyors reached out to 6,49,491 children in 17,997 villages. The Pratham Education Foundation, which facilitated the survey, said, "This was the first time ASER included a section on digital literacy focusing on children in the 14-16 age group."
Almost 90% of surveyed girls and boys reported having a smartphone at home, and 82.2% reported knowing how to use a smartphone (85.5% of boys and 79.4% of girls). When it comes to ownership, there is a larger gap—36.2% boys compared to 26.9% girls reported owning their own smartphone, the report said.
This story is from the January 29, 2025 edition of The New Indian Express Villupuram.
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