{"id":1942,"date":"2019-03-09T21:30:16","date_gmt":"2019-03-10T02:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/?p=1942"},"modified":"2026-11-11T22:03:49","modified_gmt":"2026-11-12T03:03:49","slug":"68365-smartphone-dependent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/68365-smartphone-dependent\/","title":{"rendered":"68:365 | Smartphone Dependent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance on smartphones for online access varies based on a range of factors, including educational attainment and income. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.pewinternet.org\/fact-sheet\/internet-broadband\/\">According to the Pew Research Center<\/a>, 39% of adults without a high school diploma are smartphone dependent (i.e., don&#8217;t use home broadband but own a smartphone) as compared to 10% of college graduates.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-09_21-14-47.jpg\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1943\" alt=\"\" width=\"2100\" height=\"1222\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-09_21-14-47.jpg 2100w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-09_21-14-47-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-09_21-14-47-768x447.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/2019-03-09_21-14-47-1024x596.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2100px) 100vw, 2100px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Likewise, 31% of adults making less than $30,000 are smartphone dependent as compared to 9% of those making $75,000. Access and usage data such as this must be contemplated as we consider plans for online and blended learning in adult basic skills education.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reliance on smartphones for online access varies based on a range of factors, including educational attainment and income. According to the Pew Research Center, 39% of adults without a high school diploma are smartphone dependent (i.e., don&#8217;t use home broadband but own a smartphone) as compared to 10% of college graduates. Likewise, 31% of adults&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1944,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[194,270],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-design","category-inspiration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1947,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942\/revisions\/1947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.designedtoinspire.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}