Text messages has, as many millions of frequent user know, earned is place as a high value tool despite its relatively low-tech nature in a world increasingly filled with smartphones and tablets. It works on nearly every phone regardless of how smart, or not, it is. It is so ubiquitess and useful that one company launched a service that speifically targets a perceived need in the K-12 school space.


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Teachers, students and social media seem to be all the talk these days when it comes to education and policies that need to be put in place. First, you have the teacher who called her class "lazy whiners" on her blog – which caused all kinds of problems for her and the school district. Then ...

Read More: Missouri Teachers Say Social Media Law Interferes with Education

After the English Teacher at a Philadelphia high school was suspended for things she said about her students on her blog, it made schools take a closer look at their policies and propose a social media policy. The teacher has since won her court case and is allowed to teach again, but the whole situation ...

Read More: School District Proposes Social Media Policy for Teachers

If you can't beat ‘em join ‘em right? That's the way a group of educators in New Jersey are looking at students' love for all things social media. Instead of fighting it, they're embracing it. The Freehold Regional High School District has its own Twitter account, @FRHSD, and Superintendent Charles Sampson blogs on his own ...

Read More: Teachers Encourage Students to Log On and Get Connected with Social Media

Just in time for back to school, Missouri teachers fight new social media law.


Read More: Missouri Teachers File Suit Against Social Media Law

Scholabo is the private social network for primary and pre-schools. The site isn't meant for pupils though – it's more aimed at bridging the divide between parents and teachers.It launched to the UK market in February 2011, and it's designed to provide a secure ‘gated' community where schools can send child reports, news, updates and private messages to parents.Additionally, the platform enables schools to share things like classroom learning resources, school photos and event inform [...]

Read More: Scholabo: A school social network for parents and teachers

Getting ready for back to school? So are Missouri teachers. However, they will have to make some adjustments to lesson plans as Missouri adjusts to new social media law.


Read More: Missouri Teachers Up In Arms Over Social Media Crack Down