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The next time a teacher in the Granite School District in Salt Lake City receives a Facebook friend request from a student, he or she might do well to click “Ignore.” In an attempt to avoid some of the issues that have popped up elsewhere when students and teachers connect via social networking sites, school officials have proposed a ban on any such online intermingling. Continue reading »
North Carolina Middle School teacher Rex Roland has an interesting method for motivating his students. He calls them “losers.”
A teacher who was spending the school day online posting vulgar comments on a local newspaper’s website has lost his job. So why is everyone mad at the editor who turned him in to school officials?
Kurt Greenbaum of the St. Louis Post Dispatch e-mailed the school when he noticed the it was the source linked to a commenter who had repeatedly tried posting a dirty word for part of the female anatomy. Continue reading »
If only we’d had this kind of excuse back in the day! A kid whose Kindle was caught up in the raft of recent glitches that have caused books to disappear had a very simple explanation for not turning in his George Orwell report: the Kindle ate my homework.
Owner Amazon has been dealing with a host of angry owners of the digital readers after two Orwell books were removed from libraries without their permission. And now the teen whose book AND notes were lost is suing. Continue reading »
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