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Fister, Barbara – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2008
The author discusses an incident in which a student was threatened with expulsion for his involvement in a Facebook-based study group. Because the incident involved Facebook, it hit the news, with stories appearing in major Canadian dailies. It also became a web event, with a Facebook support group, photos on Flickr, and hundreds of blog posts.…
Descriptors: Web Sites, Social Networks, Discipline, Cheating
Gilroy, Marilyn – Education Digest: Essential Readings Condensed for Quick Review, 2004
IT is one of the most common (and unsettling) occurrences in today's classrooms--the ringing of a cell phone, often punctuated by some silly tune or sound effect that announces to everyone that a call is coming in. Inevitably, educators say, it happens during an important part of a lecture or discussion, just when a critical point is being made,…
Descriptors: Telecommunications, School Policy, Classroom Techniques, Information Technology