First lady Michelle Obama has officially joined the Twittersphere with her very first tweet sent Oct. 19 from the MLB World Series, Mashable reports. Her tweet went out…
Possible changes to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) are on the horizon as the Federal Trade Commission has proposed updating the law to reflect how technology…
Gay rights activists are calling on community members to protest at a New Jersey school board meeting to take action against a Union Township high school teacher who…
File under: "Oops." Or, perhaps more accurately: "C'mon, mom!!" At least, that's probably what two Perry County High School boys are saying after their mom's Facebook statuses have…
It's a good time to be Biz Stone. The 37-year-old Berkeley resident, who just five years ago co-founded a little microblogging service you may have heard of, is…
Newark teachers will get grants to develop innovative classroom programs from the $100 million donated by Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg to the city's school district, WestWard Patch reports.
Every month 100 million users log on to Twitter to share their opinions with their followers and to find out what’s happening in the Twittersphere, Relaxnews reports. Fifty…
Banning Facebook at school? Ha! When Thom McKay realized that his son had figured out how to get on the social networking site even though his New Jersey…
A Missouri teachers' union said Aug. 19 that it is challenging a controversial new state measure that restricts teachers' use of social networking sites and their contact with…
Countless stories of bullying, from the sad to the ridiculous, have surfaced over the years as the online community has become more and more connected, Digital Trends reports.
A new Missouri state law that bans teachers from privately contacting students via social media has become a lightning rod for opinion as schools and their stakeholders grapple…
That Facebook is hugely distracting is hardly stop-the-presses kind of news, but parents might be dismayed to learn that the social-media site can hobble learning and make kids…
As they prepare lesson plans for the fall, teachers across Missouri have an extra chore before the new school year begins: purging their Facebook friend lists to comply…
Too often, we hear stories about students using online anonymity to bully their peers. But one Illinois high school student is using social media to improve campus morale.