A three-year UC Irvine study funded by the MacArthur Foundation suggests that online gaming and social networking are beneficial to children by teaching them basic social and technical skills necessary for their futures. Download the full report (PDF) here, or read a brief San Francisco Examiner article describing the study that interviewed hundreds of teenagers and observed thousands of hours of hours of their online activities. The report suggests that a generation gap has prevented school and government leaders from recognizing important benefits of these activities ... activities which many have successsfully banned from school.
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