privacy law needs an update in the post-Internet age--the government is monitoring social networking sites

using video games to teach cellular biology and molecular science to high school students

can social media use increase the student's social engagement?

Conflicting attitudes toward students who "multi-task" with mobile devices in classroom. "All the advances schools and colleges have made to supposedly enhance learning - supplying students with laptops, equipping computer labs, creating wireless networks - have instead enabled distraction. Perhaps attendance records should include a new category: present but otherwise engaged."

"This article examines the ongoing efforts to integrate computer video games in existing traditional CS courses."

"unfriend" has been chosen to be the word of the year by the New Oxford American Dictionary. unfriend = remove someone from your friend list on a social networking site.

facebook takes cyber bullying issues seriously. facebook solutions: 1) use privacy control settings 2) use those "remove" and "delete" buttons to drop bullies from your friend list.

article on Google Dashboard--google's new centralized privacy control site

on bogus tweets. many celebrities hire twitter ghostwriters to tweet for them. "public figures can't afford to be boring on Twitter."