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Edutopia blogger Vicki Davis, in the first half of a pro-and-con discussion about social media in the classroom, positions it as a vital life skill and provides 12 positive examples of classroom use.

Banning mobile phones from schools has the effect of providing pupils with an extra week's education over an academic year, researchers say.

Social media and smartphones are becoming the main news source for young people, according to a major report into the future of news.

This infographic profiling a teacher's guide to social media was produced by Online Colleges, and appeared on EdTech Digest.

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Makerspaces, wearable technologies and adaptive learning technologies are three of the six technologies that will have a profound impact on higher education within the next five years, according to the NMC Horizon Report: 2015 Higher Education Edition, released today by the New Media Consortium and the Educause Learning Initiative.