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Facebook … for parents?
When Facebook launched in 2004, it was exclusive to college students. In 2006 the social network opened up to high schoolers. Now open to anyone, the site has over 150 million users, young and old...
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‘Stuff’ is Online and in Classrooms
“The Story of Stuff,” written and narrated by former Greenpeace activist Annie Leonard, is a short film about human consumption and its implications for the health of the planet. The twenty minute...
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College Communities Are Online Communities
Last Wednesday, at Wesleyan University’s bookstore, a junior named Johanna Justin-Jinich was fatally shot by Stephen Morgan, a man she’d met at a summer program at NYU. Morgan turned himself in to the...
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EduBloggerCon Coming This June
Billed as an un-conference, EduBloggerCon is an international meetup of educational bloggers and others that will take place June 27 in Washington, DC. Conference organizers are calling it a...
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A Closer Watch on the Web
In Tennessee, a new bill is likely to be signed into law by Governor Phil Bredesen. The bill expands Tennessee’s current harassment law to include “cyber bullying,” or more specifically, “malicious...
View ArticleMedia Monday: The Changing World
Last night The Changing World (a BBC Radio program) aired a wonderful segment about the classical music program El Sistema. The program–which started 30 years ago in the slums of Caracas, Venezuela...
View ArticleReaching Teens with Social Media
Pew Research consistently puts out great and super-useful resources. We recently came across a presentation that Mary Madden gave at the Media-Smart Youth expert panel discussion hosted by the...
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Facebook Good for Socializing, Not for GPAs
According to a new study put out by Ohio State University, college students who use the popular social networking site Facebook spend less time studying and have lower grade point averages than...
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Mapping Budget Cuts Across the U.S.
Cities of all sizes are making cuts in education funding in this recession. In NYC and LA some web-savvy organizations are creating maps to track school- specific developments in real time. In NYC,...
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Math Wars!
WolframAlpha, a search engine that launched several weeks ago, runs on the sophisticated computational software Mathematica, to compute answers to questions. Unlike google or other search engines, it...
View ArticleMedia Monday: Growing Up Online
This documentary came out last year, but it’s still essential viewing for most anyone. Whether you have children, are a teenager yourself, teach, or participate in the rapidly changing digital world,...
View ArticleSchool of the Dead
When teachers polled middle school students at I.S. 145 in Jackson Heights, Queens, NY, they found that most of the students felt that the ‘Horror’ section in the library was under-stacked. So it was...
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Relationship Abuse: That’s Not Cool
The subtler gradations of relationship abuse–emotional manipulation and control–have always been somewhat difficult to pinpoint, and thus harder to prevent. Social networking and texting add a new...
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Interview: Beach reads for the under-21 crowd
A few weeks ago, New York Times columnist Nicholas D. Kristof published a list of favorite children’s books. Few of his selections were books from the last decade–many were clearly his own childhood...
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Environmentaland — Nobody Rides for Free
Forget the Hershey and Disney parks of yesteryear. For today’s youth, the summer destination is Environmentaland, an interactive environmental theme park located outside of Los Angeles, that offers an...
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Gray Matter: How to Teach (Safely) Your Kid to be a Hacker
Today’s youth are growing up learning and socializing online, as consumers and creators of digital media. Because so many young people spend so much time online, they’re pretty savvy when it comes to...
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Discussion: Using Technology in the Classroom
In a recent post on his blog, John Merrow wrote about using technology more widely in schools in order to increase learning opportunities to students. He quotes a recent study sponsored by the Knight...
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The Children of the Future: Literate and Edible
Learning Matters has had the 21st-century classroom on the brain this week. In his weekly blog post, John Merrow shared his thoughts on the importance of access to technology in education, and his...
View ArticleFriday Fun: Youth Speak & Arts Education
We’re off for a long weekend (Happy Columbus Day, everyone!), but we wanted to leave with some ideas that could get you thinking (they did for us). It’s all about activism, art, and fun. Enjoy! Young...
View ArticleMedia Monday: The Future of Learning
The average student spends two million minutes in high school. What do they do with all that time? How do they spend it? Bob Compton, a venture capitalist and entrepreneur, set out to find the answers...
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