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Produced in collaboration with Facebook, this article shares resources and reflections on how social media can be brought into the classroom.

Interesting article about how some colleges are utilizing social media and the challenges it presents

What are the implications of being "off the grid" in terms of the Internet while in college? How dependent are we on this technology?

I saw some (bad) reality tv program about a family who did this and the wonders it resulted in for this family's quality of life ... I like this idea, especially coupled with discussion afterward among the participants who can, perhaps, realize what all the time spent in Facebook, Twitter, texting, etc. takes away from ....

A growing number of kids at increasingly younger ages are engaging in online social networking today-a development that is leading to a surge of news stories, media attention, and economic investment. In this paper, produced with the generous support of Cisco Systems and the Digital Media and Learning Hub at the University of California, Irvine, scholars Sara Grimes and Deborah Fields argue that these shifts in usage and public discussion demand a better understanding of the ways that social networking sites mediate kids' socializing and the opportunities and limits they place on kids' participation, particularly for young children.

This article contradicts other studies that suggest we are feeling more socially isolated because of the rise of the internet and wireless media.

Here's a little media literacy for our emerging technologies.

Edmodo And Common Sense Media Partner (the authors of the 0-8 report some of us read for Joe Blatt's class this week) to offer free teaching tools based on Dr. Howard Gardner's work at HGSE. The partnership provides teachers with a set of student activities based on Common Sense Media's free K-12 curriculum, "Digital Literacy and Citizenship in a Connected Culture," for the Edmodo platform. The curriculum introduces the basics of using social networks and other digital technologies safely, responsibly and respectfully and is based on the work of Dr. Howard Gardner and the GoodPlay Project at the Harvard Graduate School of Education.

This relates to the ideas in Helen Haste's work

interesting legal issues about education policies

this is interesting -- in face of challenge to achieve one-to-one computing, social media can offer solutions

Descriptions and salaries for "new" jobs that involve social media, software/curriculum development, and web-based technologies

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

How social media facilitates learning a foreign language online for free.

Social media and social activism

The SPINNER project from the Responsive Environments Group at MIT Media Lab is the first research platform designed to investigate the world of ubiquitous video devices. The Spinner can automatically edit video to fit a narrative structure. It uses video from cameras installed at the Media Lab and sensor data from people generated by wearable smart badges to track their activity and location. The system then creates a video using the characteristics detected from the sensor data with the video captured by the cameras.

how should teachers respond to bans on cellphones, social media?