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Trying to duplicate the success of blockbuster Web sites like Club Penguin and Webkinz, children’s entertainment companies are greatly accelerating efforts to build virtual worlds for children. Media conglomerates in particular think these sites — part online role-playing game and part social scene — can deliver quick growth, help keep movie franchises alive and instill brand loyalty in a generation of new customers. -
1voteMegan Meier’s suicide made headlines because she was the victim of a hoax. Lori Drew, another mother in the neighborhood, said in a police report that she had created a MySpace profile of a boy, an invention named “Josh Evans,” and that she and her daughter had manipulated Megan into thinking that this fabricated person liked her.
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1votelong with their children, many parents oppose the ban, saying the students need to be able to call home quickly in case of an emergency. The mayor argues that the phones are a distraction and could facilitate cheating on tests.
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2voteApple enables educators to expand their curriculum to meet the mobile and media-rich learning styles of today’s students. iPod extends teaching and learning beyond the normal classroom hours, allowing students to easily and continuously learn. iTunes and iLife let them access, create, share, and communicate knowledge, and iPod provides students the ability to learn as they live — on the go.
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1voteAlthough few college students actually take cell phone calls in class, sending and receiving text messages during a lecture has become an acceptable part of cell phone culture, according to research from James Katz, professor of communications at Rutgers University and director of the Center for Mobile Communications Studies, and Jing Wang, a professor of Chinese language and culture at MIT.
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1votehe city is planning an intensive campaign that would use cellphones to help motivate students, most of them minorities and from poor families, in two dozen schools. The pilot program will include mentoring and incentives for high performance, like free concerts and sporting events and free minutes and ring tones for their phones. Every student in each of the schools will be given a cellphone.
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2voteUntil that moment, I had thought that the magic of the information age was that it allowed us to know more, but then I realized the magic of the information age is that it allows us to know less. It provides us with external cognitive servants — silicon memory systems, collaborative online filters, consumer preference algorithms and networked knowledge. We can burden these servants and liberate ourselves.
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1voteBut even as students have been told to leave their iPods at home, the school here in Hudson County has been handing out the portable digital players to help bilingual students with limited English ability sharpen their vocabulary and grammar by singing along to popular songs.
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1vote''You've always had the right to take a phone to school and take a phone from school,'' Mr. Bloomberg told reporters. ''You just don't have the right to bring it into the school, and that's not changing.''
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