more likely to opt out of competing for time in classroom
more likely to use computers to write personal narratives
less likely to exploit the anti-social potential of the Internet - " no girls spoke about programming or downloading viruses to trick their friends, they were there to chat and look up information relevant to their lives ".
Boys
tended to battle for the maximum possible time in the classroom, regardless of how much computer time they had outside schools
worked cooperatively at computer games " freely sharing their cheats and other strategies".
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