41 Minutes Per Day...

By Stephen Downes - Stephen's Web. 41 Minutes Per Day...
Bebo is a social networking site, similar to MySpace. According to this study, students spend 41 minutes a day there - that's almost a quarter of the 200 minutes they spend online (just think what all that reading is going to do for their brains... fantastic! Much better than Gilligan's Island). "And what does education do to try to harness the skills being learned in there? Hmmm.... 'Could do better'. Well, we could just do it. The skills are there, the tech's there, all that's missing is the desire of those not in the know to learn". More...