Adolescents spend 1.5 hours daily on smartphones during school

In January, New York Governor Kathy Hochul released a report, titled “More Learning, Less Scrolling,” to prohibit smartphone use during the school day. A team of public health and pediatric researchers, led by Lauren Hale, Ph.D., of Stony Brook University, are working to understand not just screen time use by adolescents but the duration and content of that use, particularly during a typical school day (8:00 AM to 2:30 PM). In a new study that monitored smartphone data, they found that adolescents (aged 13 to 18) spent an average of 1.5 hours each school day on their smartphones.