Social Media in Schools

Benefits Of Social Media And Video Games In Classrooms

| Nick Pandolfo | Posted 04.30.2012

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

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

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.26.2012

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

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Student Expelled For Profane Tweet Thrust Into Free-Speech Debate

AP | CHARLES WILSON | Posted 04.03.2012

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

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High School Senior Expelled For Tweeting Profanity

Posted 03.25.2012

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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...

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A Case For Why Social Media Belongs In The Classroom

| Jason Falls | Posted 02.07.2012

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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...

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Katherine Bindley

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Katherine Bindley | Posted 10.03.2011

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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...

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