First Lady Michelle Obama sends her first tweet
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…
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FTC seeks comment on important online privacy changes
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…
Group to protest school board over teacher’s anti-gay Facebook comments
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…
How to practice safe social networking
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Mom’s Facebook posts cost high school team three wins
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…
Missouri lawmakers vote to repeal Facebook limits
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Twitter’s legendary founder on his foundation and student programs
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…
Teachers to get some of Facebook’s $100 million donation
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.
Twitter reaches 100 million active user milestone but 40 percent of them don’t tweet
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…
Students find ways to thwart Facebook bans
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…
Opinion: When roommates were random
Today I am a college professor, and I am sad that most of my students will not experience what I did back when Mark Zuckerberg was in diapers,…
Missouri teachers sue over social networking law
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…
3 tips for teachers using social media in the classroom
Social media opens up all new avenues of communication for college students, their classmates and their professors, Mashable reports.
Study: 26 percent of teachers cite cyberbullying by parents
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.
How far should policy makers go in trying to protect kids online?
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…
Kids who use Facebook do worse in school
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…
Missouri teachers protest social media crackdown
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…
Teen’s social media use inspires others
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.
Facebook app tracks student cafeteria purchases
North Carolina schools are using a new Facebook application to streamline cafeteria processes and inform parents about the nutrition their children receive at school. Meals Plus cafeteria software…
Social media finds place in classroom
Among educators, Eric Sheninger is something of a social networking hero, reports USA Today.
Facebook and Time Warner join to stop cyber bullying
A new partnership between Facebook and Time Warner aims to expand the companies' individual efforts to prevent online bullying. The initiative, called “Stop Bullying: Speak Up,” will combine…
Rhode Island act prevents cyber bullying, not social media access
Rhode Island’s recently-approved “Safe School Act,” created in response to online bullying, seeks to standardize school responses to online bullying issues. And despite some media reports decrying the…
Digital technology changes boundaries of students’ free-speech rights
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Rhode Island’s ban on Facebook in schools too dumb to be a joke
On Thursday, the Rhode Island legislature passed HB 5941, an "anti-bullying" measure that, among its other provisions, imposes a blanket ban on the use of "social networking sites"…
Google unveils latest social networking feat
Online search leader Google Inc. is taking yet another stab at social networking, as it tries to go up against Facebook in this wildly popular and lucrative segment…
ISTE conference is alive with social networking
What better place to use social networking technologies to connect with fellow educators and school leaders than at the nation's largest ed-tech conference? That's what was happening at…
Digital Wish makes school fundraising easier
Websites that let teachers post their classroom "wish lists" for donors to fulfill have been around for more than a decade, but now one of those sites—Digital Wish—has…
Report: Facebook users more trusting, engaged
Facebook, it turns out, isn't just a waste of time. People who use it have more close friends, get more social support and report being more politically engaged…
‘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,…
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…