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How WeChat Is Extending China's School Days Well into the Night - 4 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 08 May 16 - No Cached

Julie Lindsay on 08 May 16

"WeChat is just the latest platform that intermediates interactions between teachers, parents, students," says Danah Boyd, a Microsoft researcher who studies social media and the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. "No intervention around the technology will make any difference if the pressure-cooker culture doesn't change."

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">"WeChat is just the latest platform that intermediates interactions between teachers, parents, students," says Danah Boyd, a Microsoft researcher who studies social media and the author of It's Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens. "No intervention around the technology will make any difference if the pressure-cooker culture doesn't change."</div>

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E-Learning Journeys: Building an online school community using WeChat - 3 views

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shared by Julie Lindsay on 01 May 16 - No Cached

Julie Lindsay on 01 May 16

The use of WeChat as a tool to build a community of learning is featured in this post via an interview with Head of Elementary at Beijing BISS International School.

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">The use of WeChat as a tool to build a community of learning is featured in this post via an interview with Head of Elementary at Beijing BISS International School. </div>

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Here's Where Teens Are Going Instead Of Facebook - Forbes - 2 views

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shared by John Pearce on 17 Nov 13 - No Cached

John Pearce on 17 Nov 13

Having surveyed teenagers in 30 countries, they revealed that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook (ie. doing more than just "liking" a separate page on the web) had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. The biggest decline in active usage (by 52%) was in the Netherlands; there was a 16% fall for American teens. Where are they going instead? Not surprisingly, it's mobile chat services like WeChat, and photo-sharing apps like Instagram and Snapchat. What's truly startling though, is how quickly global teenagers are taking up the services instead:

<div class="cArrow"> </div><div class="cContentInner">Having surveyed teenagers in 30 countries, they revealed that the number of teenagers claiming to be active on Facebook (ie. doing more than just "liking" a separate page on the web) had dropped to 56% in the third quarter of 2013, from 76% in the first. The biggest decline in active usage (by 52%) was in the Netherlands; there was a 16% fall for American teens. Where are they going instead? Not surprisingly, it's mobile chat services like WeChat, and photo-sharing apps like Instagram and Snapchat. What's truly startling though, is how quickly global teenagers are taking up the services instead:</div>

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