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    "title" : "Trends on Tuesday: Americans’ ‘Digital Divide’ on Tech Savviness and Digital Learning |Digital.gov",
    "description": "Trends on Tuesday: Americans’ ‘Digital Divide’ on Tech Savviness and Digital Learning",
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    {"title" :"Trends on Tuesday: Americans\u0026#8217; \u0026#8216;Digital Divide\u0026#8217; on Tech Savviness and Digital Learning","summary" : "The Pew Internet and the American Life Project released a report recently that analyzed the use of digital tools for different groups of tech literacies.","date" : "2016-11-15T11:00:48-04:00","date_modified" : "2025-01-27T19:42:55-05:00","authors" : {"wsullivan" : "Will Sullivan"},"topics" : {
        
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