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Social Networking Bridges the Digital Divide

November 10th, 2008

This study is important. I am going to follow this up within my educational community and use it to keep cracking the bias against social networking in schools. This study will help me a lot as I present to teachers and school staff.

A University of Minnesota study reveals that the tools of social networking are truly democratizing the web, giving low-income students the same advantages as their privileged peers.

MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL ( 6/19/2008 ) — In a first-of-its-kind study, researchers at the University of Minnesota have discovered the educational benefits of social networking sites such as MySpace and Facebook. The same study found that low-income students are in many ways just as technologically proficient as their counterparts, going against what results from previous studies have suggested.

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