New Jersey Educators Increasing Social Media Use In Curriculum

The Asbury Park (NJ) Press (8/31, Boyd) reports that an increasing number of "New Jersey educators say they're not going to beat youths' affinity for social networks, so they might as well join them," and are now "doling out info on Diigo, tailoring assignments to Twitter and getting student feedback from Facebook as part of the curriculum." For example, in "Freehold Regional High School District," the district is on Twitter, the superintendent "blogs on his own webpage," and a few "district teachers use Twitter as a teaching tool and their numbers are expected to rise, officials said."