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the benefits for socialization outweigh the potential harm

Unlike adults, youth are not invested in email; their primary peer-to-peer communication occurs synchronously over IM. Their use of MySpace is complementing that practice.

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Regardless of what will come, youth are doing what they've always done - repurposing new mediums in order to learn about social culture.

"Instead of reading about it in a textbook," Chang said, "they're immersed in the environment."

“What you can do on laptops isn’t measured on current standardized tests,” said

teachers not knowing how to teach with laptops

Maine’s laptop program has had other positive effects. From the beginning of the program, class attendance rose and detentions dropped.

Three-quarters of Maine’s middle school students say they like school more since getting their own laptops,

ut a study led by University of Southern Maine professor David Silvernail found that the average 8th-grader using a laptop did score significantly higher on the writing part of a statewide exam

Bette Manchester, the first director of Maine’s laptop program, said the state also wants to use its laptop program to solve an age-old educational problem: How to offer every child the same opportunity at a quality education.

One thing that we have learned in our industry is that people have a lot to say. They are using the Internet to publish things at an astonishing pace. 120K blogs are created daily — most of them with an audience of one. Over half of them are created by people under the age of nineteen. In the US, nearly 40 percent of Internet users upload videos, and globally over fifteen hours of video are uploaded to YouTube every minute. The web is very social too: about one of every six minutes that people spend online is spent in a social network of some type.

No one argues the value of free speech, but the vast majority of stuff we find on the web is useless. The clamor of junk threatens to drown out voices of quality.

When data is abundant, intelligence will win

The real potential of cloud computing lies not in taking stuff that used to live on PCs and putting it online, but in doing things online that were previously simply impossible.

Oil fueled the Industrial Revolution, but data will fuel the next generation of growth.

Now, the best technology starts with consumers, where a Darwinian market drives innovation that far surpasses traditional enterprise tools, and migrates to the workplace only after thriving with consumers.

Cloud computing levels that playing field so that the small business has access to the same systems that large businesses do. Given that small businesses generate most of the jobs in the economy, this is no small trend.

With facts, negotiations can become less about who yells louder, but about who has the stronger data.

Similarly, we manage Google with a long-term focus.

But Mr. Warschauer, who supports laptop programs, said schools like Liverpool might be giving up too soon because it takes time to train teachers to use the new technology and integrate it into their classes.

“Where laptops and Internet use make a difference are in innovation, creativity, autonomy and independent research,”