Efforts to reconnect Americans face challenges in a lonely time

It’s been called an “epidemic” of loneliness and isolation. The “bowling alone” phenomenon. By any name, it refers to ...
Edutopia

Building Social Skills With Games in Kindergarten

Classic tabletop games like Uno, Jenga, and Connect Four might look like simple fun, but at Gilles-Sweet Elementary School in Fairview Park, Ohio, kindergarten teacher Keri Laughlin uses them as ...
The Verge

ICE is building a social media panopticon

The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. The agency’s latest surveillance contract is an ’assault’ on democracy and free speech. is a news writer who ...
Accounting Today

Building the skills of the future

Technical skills will never go away, but there's a whole other set of leadership and 'soft' skills that firms can't afford to neglect, says consultant and coach Erin Daiber of Well-Balanced ...
New Republic

ICE Building Social Media Surveillance Team to Hunt People Down

ICE may be watching your TikToks. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is preparing to build a 24/7 social media surveillance team in an effort to deport even more people. On Friday, Wired reported on ...
ZDNet

Students are using AI tools instead of building foundational skills - but resistance is growing

There is growing concern about student dependence on AI. Today's computer science grads might understand less about IT systems. Some technology professors are pushing back against AI in classrooms.
Entrepreneur

How Building Tech With No Tech Background Taught Me the Most Valuable Skill in Business

The most valuable skill in business today is translation — the power to bridge vision and execution, clarity and complexity, strategy and reality. The most valuable skill in business isn’t your ...
Cal Alumni Association

Building a Bridge Between Social-Emotional Learning and Character Education

When challenging student behavior arises, the instinct in many schools is to turn to discipline: assigning detention, suspension, or removal from class. But John Gasko, chief well-being officer at ...
Engineering News-Record

Adaptive Reuse of a Chicago Tall Building Gets Social Media Boost From "The Skyscraper Guy"

As cities around the country grapple with soaring office vacancies in their urban cores, one developer in Chicago is using social media to drive interest in his plan to convert office space into ...
Education Week

Can Tech Teach Kindness? 5 Tools That Build Social Skills

Technology—from social media to cellphones—is often blamed for causing bad behavior among students, especially middle schoolers. But when used intentionally, technology can also promote kindness, ...
The Verge

Here are three new apps building out the open social web

Bonfire Social, Channel.org, and Bounce are creating new ways to move around the open web. Bonfire Social, Channel.org, and Bounce are creating new ways to move around the open web. is a news writer ...