Posts Tagged ‘Classrooms’

Report: Social Media Use In Classrooms NOT Effective Yet

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Students On ComputerNatasha Murashev is the author of Psychblog.com, a digital magazine focused on applied psychology.
As schools are increasingly integrating social media into the classroom, the debate over its’ use and effectiveness for learning rages. In an interview with TechNewsDaily, the principle of the Social Leadership Academy in Philadelphia, Chris Lehmam, stresses the importance of using social media in schools by pointing out the disconnect between how kids learn in school and what they do when they go home to the real world.
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Tokbox Group Video Gets Supersized, Could Video Classrooms Be Far Off?

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tokbox LogoGroup video meetings from TokBox just got significantly improved: the service is now capable of handling up to 200 viewers, with a dozen of them active at any given time. Tokbox calls this new feature Broadcast Video Chat, and the potential group use is significant, including business collaboration or education. What’s more, there’s no software to download, as TokBox works in a web browser.
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