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Pros and Cons of Social Media in the Classroom

There’s an ongoing debate about the role social media should play in education. Advocates point out the benefits that social media provides for today’s digital learners while critics call for regulation and for removing social media from classrooms. Finding a middle ground has become a challenge.Campus TechnologyFull Article

Google to merge user data across more services

Privacy advocates slam the web-search giant for not allowing users to opt outeSchool NewsFull Article

Massive Courses, Sans Stanford

For students looking to learn skills and land jobs, might the good word of a highly regarded instructor count as much as the imprimatur of a highly regarded institution?Inside Higher Ed Full Article

‘Badges’ Earned Online Pose Challenge to Traditional College Diplomas

The spread of a seemingly playful alternative to traditional diplomas, inspired by Boy Scout achievement patches and video-game power-ups, suggests that the standard certification system no longer works in today’s fast-changing job market.Wired CampusFull Article

Online Course Provider, StraighterLine, to Offer Critical-Thinking Tests to Students

As alternatives to the college diploma have been bandied about recently, one question always seems to emerge: How do you validate badges or individual classes as a credential in the absence of a degree?Wired CampusFull Article

Company Powering Apple’s Siri Introduces Education Site of Its Own

The influential company providing brainpower for the iPhone personal assistant, Siri, has joined the group of education firms debuting new products around the time of Apple’s entry into the e-textbook market.Wired CampusFull Article

Students’ Video Game Tests New Artificial-Intelligence Engine — at the Prom

Few rituals conjure a storm of emotions like the high-school prom. Some remember the night forever, and others try to forget it as soon as they leave the gym.Wired CampusFull Article

Virginia Makes Digital Literacy Curriculum Available to Schools

By giving schools access to an interactive learning platform, Virginia will help prepare eighth- and ninth-grade students to become good digital citizens, the commonwealth announced on Thursday.ConvergeFull Article

New iTunes U App for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch

If you’re an educator at a university, college, or K-12 school, now you have an easy way to design and distribute complete courses featuring audio, video, books, and other content. And students and lifelong learners can experience your courses for free through a powerful new app for iPad, iPhone, and iPod touch.AppleNew iTunes U App […]

iBooks textbooks for iPad

Introducing an entirely new kind of textbook that’s dynamic, current, engrossing, and truly interactive. A textbook created by publishers using a new authoring tool from Apple. A textbook brought to life by iPad.AppleiBooks textbooks for iPad

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