Social media is turning education upside down. “Kids are coming to the Columbia University library now mostly to use the coffee bar,” says Kate Wittenberg, Director of Columbia’s Electronic Publishing Initiative (EPIC). “This upsets librarians. Yet the Columbia Library page on Facebook has over 1,000 friends. They are coming to the library […]

The second panelist explained how her company is helping social media expand. Karon Weber recently joined the Yahoo!’s Youth and Education Research Group after two decades of developing digital animation software. She said that social media operates at the intersection of people, media, and technology.

Karon Weber.  Click for larger image.
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Handheld technologies are emerging as powerful educational tools for six reasons, said the third and fourth panelists, Jennifer S Groff, Program Manager, and Eric Rosenbaum, Research Manager, from The Teacher Education Program at the Massachusetts institute of Technology (MIT). Game Boy game consoles, cell phones, play stations, Tamagachi toys, Palm Pilots, and pocket […]