The practice of using popular social-networking web sites as a means to market new products is a growing trend that raises questions about where internet marketing might cross ethical lines. Critics say the online music downloading service Ruckus Network clearly went too far in its recent use of the social-networking web site Facebook.com to spur business.
Richard E. Clark put it succinctly: Media like television, film, and computers “deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers our groceries causes changes in our nutrition.”
The U.S. departments of Education and Labor, in partnership with the National Science Foundation, should work with the video game industry to support the research and development of video games that promote learning, a report released today recommends.
In what is believed to be the first class of its kind in the country, Boston University has partnered with cellular company Amp'd Mobile to create a course that teaches students how to make films entirely shot by, and viewed on, cell phones.
Due to the rapid development in the field of K-12 online learning, the North American Council for Online Learning was launched as a formal corporate entity, in September 2003, as an international K-12 non-profit organization representing the interests of administrators, practitioners, and students involved in online learning in the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The express purpose of the organization is to facilitate collaboration, advocacy, and research to enhance quality K-12 online learning.
Internet monitoring software has become increasingly popular among parents with kids active on the internet. But one criticism is the software could violate the trust between a parent and child-- or worse, drive the child to a computer that isn't monitored.
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In many schools and even states, it's been, rather, a movement to block and bust: no blogs, no cell phones, no IM. We take away the powerful social technologies our kids are already using to learn and, in doing so, tell them their own tools are irrelevant. Or, instead of using the complex and challenging phenomenon of a site such as Wikipedia to teach the realities of navigating information in this new world, we prohibit its use.
This is the wiki for the One Laptop per Child association. The mission of this non-profit association is to develop a low-cost laptop—the "$100 Laptop"—a technology that could revolutionize how we educate the world's children. Our goal is to provide children around the world with new opportunities to explore, experiment, and express themselves.
Such sites, with their emphasis on online safety and development of Internet skills, offer a good middle ground for schools that are concerned about harmful uses of social-networking sites yet want their students to learn how to use the Web in more sophisticated ways, said Douglas A. Levin, the senior director of education policy at Cable in the Classroom. The Washington-based nonprofit group is an advocate for better uses of technology in schools.
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The practice of using popular social-networking web sites as a means to market new products is a growing trend that raises questions about where internet marketing might cross ethical lines. Critics say the online music downloading service Ruckus Network clearly went too far in its recent use of the social-networking web site Facebook.com to spur business.
Where 21st Century students can together tell their story of life where they live.
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