‘Safe’ social networking tailored for K-12 schools
Students are having conversations with celebrated figures, as well as each other and their teacher, using the social-networking site Edmodo, which is designed specifically for use in schools,…
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Online students connect off line with ‘geosocial’ networking
Because an online college student might want to meet a classmate the old-fashioned way – face to face – Arizona State University (ASU) has a social networking platform…
How our school adopted social media, one small step at a time
A little over two years ago something like this would have never happened at New Milford High School. Yes, I was the principal at that time, but my…
Zuckerberg: Kids under 13 should be able to use Facebook
Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at a summit that social networking sites can be a tool for education and that Facebook should be able to open its…
Psst! The human brain is wired for gossip
Hearing gossip about people can change the way you see them — literally, NPR reports. Negative gossip actually alters the way our visual system responds to a particular…
Web giants fight California privacy bill
Web giants Facebook, Google, Twitter and Skype have banded together to oppose an online social networking privacy bill in California that would require users’ permission to display personal…
This is your brain on Twitter
In his latest column for The New York Times Magazine, Bill Keller, The Times’s executive editor, likens clearing the way for his 13-year-old daughter to join Facebook to…
Madison Junior High School students use social networking to reunite Holocaust survivors
While most students learn about Nazi Germany through books and movies, Naperville, Ill. middle schoolers have done real detective work to reunite two Holocaust survivors after 73 years,…
Speaking up in class, silently, using social media
Wasn’t it just the other day that teachers confiscated cellphones and principals warned about oversharing on MySpace? Now, Erin Olson, an English teacher in Sioux Rapids, Iowa, is…
Student arrested for ranking female classmates on Facebook
In January, an Oak Park-River Forest High School student found himself in hot water after publishing a list of 50 of his female peers, ranking them based on…