Tag: CLASS

Share In a compelling article (PDF) titled 'White Flight in Networked Publics -- How Race and Class Shaped American Teen Engagement with MySpace and Facebook,' Microsoft researcher Danah Boyd argues that race and social class were significant factors in the 2006 teenage exodus from MySpace to Facebook. As Technology Review reports, the author uses statistical and anecdotal evidence to ...

Of all the things one can do during class to help improve test scores, surfing the Web certainly isn't one of them. Seems obvious to us, but it took a teacher from the University of Colorado at Boulder to single it out before her group of students wised up. Once they did, their test scores improved. Diane Sieber, an associate professor, picked out the 17 students in her classes who were using ...