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Stephen Downes

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This story has made quite a ripple in the U.S. blogosphere as the National School Boards Association, which represents 95,000 school board members, releases a study arguing that social networks are not as dangerous as we have previously been led to believe. These results are not surprising. But the study was funded by funded by Microsoft, News Corporation, and Verizon - organizations that are not exactly neutral about the outcome. Coverage from Ars Technica, Boing Boing, Tim Stahmer and Dave Warlick.

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