Some 62% of US internet users aged 12 to 17 are going online for news and political information or find out about current events
the decline in blogging among teens and young adults is striking as it looks like the youth may be exchanging "macro-blogging" for microblogging with status updates.
I would be interested to see why teens are looking at news online. My skeptical side wonders if teens are going online for news and political information as a result of assignments and homework and if these stats simply reflect their tendency to turn more and more to digital technologies, neglecting print sources.
Maybe it is a guy thing, but I think I would enjoy building a crack team of mercenaries to battle other 'gangs'.
The VOIP functionality and real-time skirmishes sound like a lot of fun.
I just had a great idea for a MUVE game...
Rookie, a MUVE that requores the formation of a constant cohort of users that must work together to graduate a Police Academy (politics, alliance building, skills, civic quandries, etc). They rise through the ranks together culminating in SWAT team training and/or criminal justice track (courts).
hoping to move to computer-adaptive testing based on the new Common Core standards, which Utah has already adopted, by the 2014-15 school year. Proponents of Common Core standards say they’ll better prepare kids for college and careers. Some, however, remain wary, seeing the standards as a blow to local control,
Another article on digital textbooks. The author describes how students in Joplin, MO, went digital after the tornado destroyed their schools. Mixed results.
"Only a small fraction of students may count as true digital natives, in other words. The rest are no better or worse at using technology than the rest of the population."
social studies curriculum that will put a conservative stamp on history and economics textbooks, stressing the role of Christianity in American history and presenting Republican political philosophies in a more positive light.
Republicans on the board have passed more than 160 amendments to the 120-page curriculum standards affecting history, sociology and economics courses from elementary to high school.
They are rewriting history, not only of Texas but of the United States and the world.