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The best tweets of the week for education
Here are the education-related tweets that we found most enlightening, helpful, or interesting this week.…
Preteens’ use of Instagram creates privacy issue, child advocates say
On the photo-sharing app Instagram, search the keywords #Fairfax, #Rockville or #DC and up pops hundreds of photos from children, The Washington Post reports.…
Wash. law boosts AP computer science education
Washington Gov. Jay Inslee signed a bill opening the door for schools across the state to count Advanced Placement (AP) computer science as a math or science credit. The law’s…
The numbers are clear: Mobile is taking over the world
Take a moment to think about it, ReadWriteWeb reports. The mobile market - hardware, software, apps, services, infrastructure - is expanding to just about every corner of the wold. …
How teachers use Pinterest in the classroom
Long a favorite among craft enthusiasts, the popular DIY site Pinterest, in which users “pin” online images to virtual pin boards for later reference, is gaining ground in education. Educators…
Student suspended for tweeting that school sports teams were bad
A high school student in Wichita, Kansas, was suspended for the rest of the school year after tweeting a mild criticism of the school sports programs, reports The Daily Caller.…
Eleven new ed-tech services to watch
An online simulation in which students create their own company, then compete with each other by buying and selling shares of stock, and an iPad app for visual learning and…
Students’ ‘magic school bus’ increases college acceptance rates
Most educators are familiar with the adventures of Ms. Frizzle’s Magic School Bus and the incredible journeys students take while riding it to explore the solar system, inside the earth,…
Geoconferencing: GPS, travel bugs, and learning–oh my!
Gone are the days of traditional school pen pals and classrooms mailing packages back and forth—today’s students and teachers are using ed-tech to have virtual conversations with classrooms across their…
10 ed-tech tools of the 70s, 80s, and 90s
We don’t know about you, but sometimes the eSchool News editors are amazed to hear about the ed-tech students use to learn in schools these days: mobile gaming apps, 3D…