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29 Nov 09

Teachers begin using cell phones for class lessons - washingtonpost.com

  • Spanish teacher Katie Titler has used cell phones for students to dial and record themselves speaking for tests.



    "Specifically for foreign language, it's a great way to both formally and informally assess speaking, which is really hard to do on a regular basis because of class sizes and time," Titler said.



    Jimbo Lamb, a math teacher at Annville-Cleona School District in south-central Pennsylvania, has students use their phones to answer questions set up through a polling Web site. Instantly, he's able to tell how many students understood the lesson.



    "This is technology that helps us be more productive," he said.

20 Sep 09

Child welfare: The nanny state | The Economist

  • Some kinds of spending on children do work, but many should be improved or scrapped. No country gets it all right, though some (like the Nordic ones) do better in general than others (notably, America). Government spending per child varies a lot, as do outcomes; but the correlation is not strong.
15 Jul 09

Twitter and teens: Challenging the idea of the young digital native | Media | guardian.co.uk

  • Last November, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found the median age of Twitter users in the US was 31, higher than 26 for Facebook and 27 for MySpace.
  • In a battle of the teen prognosticators, 16-year-old Daniel Brusilovsky, writing on TechCrunch says that teens don't use Twitter because it's a completely open network and anyone can see your status updates. Teens prefer the privacy of closed networks such as Facebook. Brusilovsky said it makes teens feel "unsafe".
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13 Jul 09

The Generation M Manifesto - Umair Haque - HarvardBusiness.org

Twitter is not for teens, Morgan Stanley told by 15-year-old expert | Business | guardian.co.uk

  • "Teenagers do not use Twitter," he wrote. "Most have signed up to the service, but then just leave it as they realise that they are not going to update it (mostly because texting Twitter uses up credit, and they would rather text friends with that credit). They realise that no one is viewing their profile, so their tweets are pointless."
  • He stressed that his peers were "very reluctant" to pay for music and most had never bought a CD, with a large majority downloading songs illegally from filesharing sites.
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12 Jun 09

apophenia: Twitter is for friends; Facebook is everybody

  • What Dylan is pointing out is that the issue is that Facebook is public (to everyone who matters) and Twitter can be private because of the combination of tools AND the fact that it's not broadly popular.

apophenia: is Facebook for old people?

  • I asked her if her friends also gathered on Facebook and her face took on a combination of puzzlement and horror before she exclaimed, "Facebook is for old people!"
  • He messages with his mother and his youth pastor on Facebook and he waxes elegantly about how he thinks that Facebook is just as popular among adults as it is among teens. He believes that the reason that people switched to Facebook was because it was more "mature."
11 Apr 09

Teens Love Aggregation and 'Free', Newspaper Study Finds | Epicenter from Wired.com

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    Teenagers aren't likely to pay for news and love aggregation sites, according to a new study. This is especially bad news for online newspapers since two of the big industry ideas right now are a) charge for content, and b) put the aggregators out of business.

  • Don't overload them. Less is more: Reduce the volume of
    information. The teens in the study's focus groups craved a "top
    headlines" approach and "a simplified overview of the news they often find at Yahoo, Google, AOL and their e-mail providers."
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