Today’s students are digital natives, and they are using their devices to connect with each other all the time during school. A new infographic looks at just how many of them are using social networks, and what they are doing on those social networks during school. The infographic also asks how schools can harness this social force for learning.
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What I like about this platform is that it helps me organize my project. I can enter my overall goal and then break it down in steps, so I know exactly what I have to do in order to achieve my goal. I love it when social media becomes proactive like My Dream Machine.
Have you ever wondered how the social media environment in which we live today affects the students of today? How Facebook, YouTube, Tumblr, Twitter, Wikipedia, iPads, Kindles, and other new technologies are impacting the way that today’s students learn and the way that they are educated? A new collaborative project from the Digital Ethnography department at Kansas State University explores these questions and more, via an interactive HTML5 video collage featuring the visions of students today.
Being constantly connected to each other and to the plethora of information on the web has a serious impact on college students’ mental health, a new study reports.
Exams are a lip-biting, head-pounding experience for any student, but imagine you had to write an exam in the middle of a teacher strike with only half of the course material under your belt. Talk about stress. Students in South Africa were facing this situation when a think-tank, a social network and a large group of volunteers came to the rescue in an innovative implementation of social networking in the school system. Details and implications of this move are discussed below the jump.
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Today marks the launch of Xplana.com, an online learning platform for students, educators and institutions. With 200,000 free learning materials – such as textbooks, course notes and lectures – in its searchable databases at launch, Xplana.com is aiming for 1 million by January first, making it the world’s largest repository of online learning material. This goal might sound ambitious in itself, but Xplana.com goes even further: it hopes to be an informal, social learning platform fully compatible with all online learning management systems. We had the chance to talk with Robert Reynolds, the Director of Design and Research at Xplana.com, about his thoughts this new educational social network on the block.
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Grockit, an up-and-coming social network for students, has just received $7 million in its latest round of funding. In previous rounds, Grockit received funding from Reid Hoffman, founder of LinkedIn and Mark Pincus, founder and CEO of Zynga. Led by Atlas Venture, the current round of funding also saw previous investors Integral Capital Partners and Benchmark Capital contribute.
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