Social Media in Schools

Benefits Of Social Media And Video Games In Classrooms

| Nick Pandolfo | Posted 04.30.2012

This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's Digital blog. Social media, video games, blogs and wikis are playing increasingly importa...

Middle School Girls Expelled Over Facebook Jokes 'To Kill' Peers

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.26.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- Three eighth-graders from northwest Indiana who say they were expelled after joking on Facebook about which of their classmates they w...

Student Expelled For Profane Tweet Thrust Into Free-Speech Debate

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.03.2012

INDIANAPOLIS -- Austin Carroll was fighting insomnia when the Indiana teenager turned to Twitter for relief and casually dropped the F-word multiple t...

High School Senior Expelled For Tweeting Profanity

Posted 03.25.2012

An Indiana high school senior has been expelled for a Tweet he says was posted from home on his personal account. "One of my tweets was, f--- is on...

A Case For Why Social Media Belongs In The Classroom

| Jason Falls | Posted 02.07.2012

This piece comes to us courtesy of Education Nation's The Learning Curve blog. Social Media Explorer CEO Jason Falls writes. He is also a member of th...

Katherine Bindley

Missouri 'Facebook Law' Protecting Our Kids Or Limiting Learning?

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 10.03.2011

If you're a parent, you've probably experienced a certain degree of fear at some point or another about your kids using the Internet. Maybe you peer o...