Tag: SCHOOLS

The FCC takes cyberbullying very seriously -- and it wants to make sure that schools do, too. Today, the Federal Communications Commission announced that all schools receiving subsidies for Internet access must educate students on the dangers of cyberbullying, and teach them how to use social networking sites responsibly. Schools receiving federal funding under the nationwide E-rate program are ...

School officials in Lee County, Florida have issued a new set of guidelines for the upcoming academic year. This go-round, they're cracking down on Facebook. As the AFP reports, the newly published protocol explicitly warns district teachers against interacting with their students via social networking sites, in order to avoid the kinds of legal or professional pitfalls that have plagued so ...

Share If your college GPA has been plummeting in recent semesters, you might legitimately blame the slide on drugs, sex or the occasional rock and roll. You best think twice, though, before fingering Facebook. According to researchers from Northwestern University, compulsive use of social networking sites has virtually no effect on academic performance when compared with other variables like ...

In theory, it's a noble public initiative to provide every high school student with the latest, high-tech laptops. What's not so noble, though, is to make every kid pay for it themselves. As of September 2011, every student attending Beverly High School in Massachusetts will be required to have their own MacBook as part of a district-wide campaign to modernize classroom technology. According ...

Texting your way to carpal tunnel syndrome at the age of 16 is extreme, but what about the rest of America's teenage youth? Has texting now replaced actual speech as teenage lingua franca? A recent survey conducted as part of the Pew Research Center's Internet and American Life Project finds that 75-percent of teens now own cell phones, up from just 45-percent in 2004. Researchers also find that ...

You might not know it, but it's National Cell Phone Recycling Week. From April 5th through 11th, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is encouraging consumers to recycle all those old cell phones that are just laying around the house. According to NPR, Americans toss out about 130 million cell phones every year. Now, there are some intrepid folks out there fighting the battle against e-waste, ...

Share For years, video games have been a staple of after-school leisure, but, in Japan, students may soon be spending significant amounts of class time in front of a Nintendo, as well. As The Escapist reports, Nintendo has undertaken a widespread campaign to brand its DS console as a veritable educational tool, and has already struck a deal that would put the consoles in the hands of elementary ...

digg_url ='http://www.switched.com/2009/09/07/schools-offer-classes-in-twitter-guitar-hero-dumb-or-smart/'; Media outlets love headlines like 'University Teaches Twitter 101' or 'Facebooking Now Part of Curriculum.' Usually, though, such claims of kids being taught to tweet are sensationalized. It is true, though, that schools are increasingly looking towards new media to study the way we ...