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Virginia Schools To Teach Internet Safety

In an effort to prepare children and teens for the potential stranger danger on the Internet, Virginia is the first state to make Internet safety classes for all grade levels.It's hard being first and one might imagine all 49 pairs of eyes (assuming one set of eyes per state, of course) will be on Virginia to see how educators implement the program, the messages used, and the methods by which the program is evaluated.

Google Using YouTube To Aid Business

Firms that want to know more about running with Google's advertising program, AdWords, have a video option to check out now.

Students and Twitter

Ever since teaching 6th graders about blogging, I’ve paid more attention to how social media sites can enhance learning. Blogging certainly can improve writing skills and at the same time introduce children to ideas that will make them more marketable when they hit the job force (assuming they do).

One Laptop Per Child Needs a Spreadsheet Solution

Dan Bricklin has ported the SocialCalc spreadsheet to the OLPC XO as an Open Source project. 

Generation Google: True and False

Kids these days. All crazy with the texting and the AIM and the Facebook and the Google. I just don’t understand them.

Education and Marketing

The smallest remarks can sometimes spur the greatest conversations.

PBS Site for Kids 3 to 6

Small children are fighting their parents for the mouse these days. Pretty soon they’ll demand their own laptops and want money to spend on their own music and web sites.

Researchers Scoff At Google Generation

The kids may be able to fly around the web at ludicrous speed, but if a basic search can't find what they want, they could have a tough time digging up more information.

Search Tool for Colleges Emerges

College Kingdom has launched new search tools for students, or anyone for that matter, to search over seven thousand colleges’, universities’, career schools’, and adult education programs’ websites all at once.  

Google & Wikipedia Banned in School Again

So another college professor has banned Wikipedia (and Google). Oh, woe is me. The world is ending. Oh, the stifling of creative thought at institutions of higher learning these days. Censorship! Censorship! Whatever.