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Teachers Sue Over Absurd Facebook Law

11:11PM August 22, 2011 | Mario Aguilar

Missouri teachers really want to hang out with their students online. In fact, they’ve just filed a lawsuit for the right to do so in response to newly inked state law that seeks to prohibit student-teacher interfriendship. More »


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Missouri Bans Teachers From Being Facebook Friends With Students

1:15AM August 2, 2011 | Casey Chan

Here’s a primer on what’s illegal in Missouri (some cities): owning a PVC pipe, having oral sex, minors buying lighters, minors buying cap pistols and now student-teacher Facebook friendships. Seriously, that’s banned. More »


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NSW Teachers Can Now Tweet Their Students

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9:57AM April 29, 2011 | Nick Broughall

Good news everyone! NSW public school teachers can now get their social networking skills on, with the NSW government lifting a ban on teachers using sites like Twitter and Facebook at work. More »


News

Teacher Made Student Play ‘Strip Video Games’ At His House

2:00PM March 3, 2011 | Brian Barrett

Larry David Twigg, a 53-year-old computer teacher from Waterloo, Iowa, was recently arrested for having a 17-year old student of his play “strip video games”, take a “chocolate syrup shower” and make a snow angel in his boxers. More »


Gadgets

Little Voices Coach Teachers Over Headsets, Thanks To Bill Gates

7:20AM March 2, 2011 | Kat Hannaford

Just like the technology that NFL coaches use, teachers in the US have been hooking up wires to their ears for mentors to whisper nuggets of help into when training. The Gates Foundation wisely invested its money in Teach for America, giving them enough money to purchase the headsets necessary for live-coaching newbie teachers. More »


Computing

Human Teachers Are No Longer Affordable

3:10AM January 19, 2011 | Hamilton Nolan

Victory over America’s failing, overcrowded schools! In Florida, America’s smartest state, they’ve figured out a successful formula for bringing down class sizes: just let the kids be taught by a computer. More »


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Watch The World’s Coolest Maths Teacher Troubleshoot Haunted PC

3:06AM November 2, 2010 | Brian Barrett

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This man is unarguably the greatest maths teacher in the history of maths teachers. Or at least the greatest at pulling off large-scale video projector pranks that leave you laughing, stunned and a little bit awed. More »


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Creepy Teachers Using Facebook For Creepy Things

2:00PM October 19, 2010 | Matt Buchanan

“This is sexy” is not a comment a teacher should post on a student’s Facebook photo. But that’s what Chadwin Reynolds allegedly wrote on a photo posted by one of a half dozen female students he friended on Facebook. More »


Gadgets

Panasonic’s Multitouch Interactive Whiteboard Would Make Me Learn Stuff

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12:30PM August 25, 2010 | Nick Broughall

When I was at school, whiteboards were as boring as trying to explain calculus to the dumb kids. But whiteboards today are interactive, and the latest model from Panasonic has introduced the most exciting technology of them all*, multitouch. More »


Japanese Elementary School Kids Now Being Taught by Saya the Robot

6:23PM March 10, 2009 | Elaine Chow

Elementary school teachers watch out. Japan’s trying to make you obsolete! In lieu of a real flesh and blood person, one primary class in Tokyo is now getting a robot teacher named Saya.

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