New interfaces show promise for higher ed and K-12 woes

It's no secret that children of the digital age prefer their mobile devices (smartphones and laptops) over their classroom teachers. Kids buy cheap feature phones to check at the door so they can use their smartphones to text under their sleeves -- It's easy when you send 80 text messages a day! -- and they social network on their laptops and netbooks and iPads while supposedly taking notes.

Instead of fighting this, educators ought to look at some of the new software being developed that provides for the use of social networking in the learning environment. Students can use video calling and see themselves and their classmates within an interface that also includes such features as white boards, slides, graded papers, texting, and all the backend information one expects from an LMS.

Learning should be fun!

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