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March 7th, 2008

Student Faces Expulsion for Facebook Study Group

Note to self: do not send kids to Ryerson University. They’re a bunch of neo-Luddites.
Study groups may be a virtual trademark of the Ivory Tower – but a virtual study group has been slammed as cheating by Ryerson University.
First-year student Chris Avenir is fighting charges of academic misconduct for helping run an online chemistry study […]

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November 11th, 2007

SimCity OLPC

Anyone who’s been to a third world city knows their governments seriously need lessons in urban planning. That’s why future generations should be happy that Electronic Arts is donating the original SimCity to the One Laptop Per Child project.
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August 15th, 2007

School Board Study Shows Social Networks Educational

Schools that ban social networking sites deny students a powerful educational tool, says a new study by the US National School Boards Association.
A new study released today by the National School Boards Association and Grunwald Associates LLC exploring the online behaviors of U.S. teens and ‘tweens shows that 96 percent of students with online access […]

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July 26th, 2007

Universities Thwart Anti-P2P Amendment

You’d think a bill to renew the Higher Education Act would actually focus on education, right? Apparently, US Senator Harry Reid thinks it should focus on serving the recording industry. Last week, Reid introduced an amendment requiring universities to do the following favors for the RIAA:
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