As educators, we pit ourselves every day against the most savage of enemies: ignorance, anti-intellectualism, apathy, prejudice, meanness. We can no more unplug in our struggle against these foes than our forebears should have thrown away their slates and books because a few students scribbled profanities or a few authors wrote hate and lies. Read Full Post >
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook are staging a pair of "hackathons" this months aimed at producing new ideas in college access, social learning and other areas. Read Full Post >
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and Facebook are inviting developers to build prototypes for apps supporting college attendance, social learning, and out-of-school study. Read Full Post >
The Social Media Toolkit offers tutorials and recommendations for principals trying to engage the community through social media. It appears to be one of the first such resources of its kind in the country. Read Full Post >
Zuckerberg's donation will go toward unspecified initiatives and be delivered through a Silicon Valley nonprofit. Read Full Post >
Those people posting negative comments on Facebook were negative before Facebook ever started. Facebook just allowed them the venue to spew negativity. What has happened to common sense? Has Facebook and Twitter created a negative tone in society? Or was there a portion of society that was already ... Read Full Post >
Up to $80 million from Zuckerberg donation could pay for merit-based teacher bonuses in new tentative contract. Read Full Post >
Computer scientists at the University of Wisconsin say their program can automatically spot 15,000 tweets a day that show signs of bullying. Read Full Post >
"Facebook for School Counselors" aims to help those in the guidance office make sense of the platform and its on-campus impact. Read Full Post >
The effort will allow students to create exclusive communities based on college- and university-issued email addresses. Read Full Post >
