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Top News - Facebook, states set online safeguards - 0 views
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Facebook, the world's second-largest social-networking web site, will add more than 40 new safeguards to protect students and other users from sexual predators and cyber bullies, attorneys general from several states said May 8.
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The changes include banning convicted sex offenders from the site, limiting older users' ability to search online for subscribers under 18, and building a task force seeking ways to better verify users' ages and identities.
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Officials from Washington, D.C., and 49 states have signed on.
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Past Sites of Week - Shareology provides an online community for educators to exchange ... - 0 views
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At Shareology.org, a web site managed by the nonprofit Nicholas Foundation, educators can exchange best practices, review new technologies, post feedback on their innovations, learn from each other's experiences, and find resources to help them succeed in the classroom.
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educators will find ideas for K-12 instruction, funding sources for projects, and information about technology products and services.
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The site also includes a Podcasting Corner, which features samples of how students are using podcasts and gives educators ideas for how to use podcasting in their own lessons.
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Around the Web - Software database reveals what kids are reading - 0 views
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but the largest survey ever of youthful reading in the United States has revealed that none of J.K. Rowling's phenomenally popular books has been able to dislodge the works of longtime favorites Dr. Seuss, E.B. White, Judy Blume, S.E. Hinton, and Harper Lee as the most read.
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Books by the five well-known U.S. authors, plus lesser-known Laura Numeroff, Katherine Paterson, and Gary Paulsen, drew the most readers at every grade level in a study of 78.5 million books read by more than 3 million children who logged on to the Renaissance Learning web site to take quizzes on books they read last year.
Top News - Latest Wi-Fi standard on the march - 0 views
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Colleges and universities nationwide are launching the newest generation of Wi-Fi networks even before a final version of the standard has been ratified—a move technology experts say could allow schools to do away with wired networks in the coming years.
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Network administrators at several universities said higher education is embracing 802.11n technology now, because many students own laptops that are compatible with the newest Wi-Fi option. The "n" standard is expected to allow for faster audio and video streaming, including high-definition television. Digital recordings of lectures also could be accessible through "n" networks.
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As more students buy computers and phones with "n" capabilities, "universities are very willing to make their networks into living laboratories,"
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Education Week: Online Education Cast as 'Disruptive Innovation' - 0 views
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Technology-based forces of “disruptive innovation” are gathering around public education and will overhaul the way K-12 students learn—with potentially dramatic consequences for established public schools, according to an upcoming book that draws parallels to disruptions in other industries.
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The book does hold out hope that established school organizations can adapt to disruptive innovation.
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Like the leaders in other industries, the education establishment has crammed down technology onto its existing architecture, which is dominated by the “monolithic” processes of textbook creation and adoption, teaching practices and training, and standardized assessment—which, despite some efforts at individualization, by and large treat students the same, the book says.
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Top News - University nixes web access during class - 0 views
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University of Chicago Law School officials have a simple message for their students: less web surfing, more listening.
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The school announced April 11 that the distractions afforded by wireless internet access no longer will be available during class time, although laptops still will be permitted for note taking.
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the University of Chicago Law School is believed to be among the first to implement a school-wide ban.
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Top News - Blogging helps encourage teen writing - 0 views
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Blogging helps encourage teen writing Survey reveals that student bloggers are more prolific and appreciate the value of writing more than their peers
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Buried beneath the alarm of writing "purists," however, was a promising finding with equally important implications for schools: Blogging is helping many teens become more prolific writers.
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The survey, conducted by the Pew Internet and American Life Project with support from the College Board and its National Commission on Writing,
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ABC News: $100 Laptop Program Falls on Hard Times - 0 views
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A key person behind the "$100 laptop" for schoolchildren has left the project as the organization overhauls its operations and prepares to tweak its open-source approach by welcoming Microsoft Corp.'s Windows.
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