in the cloud

“A lot of teachers are on Facebook as general-population consumers,” said Jessie Arora, the founder of Teacher Square, an organization that helps teachers share information around educational technology. “[But] they aren’t on Facebook with their teacher hats on.”

For instance, 27 percent of respondents use Edmodo, the social learning site that is as much a classroom-management tool as it is a network. That’s up from 3 percent in 2007 and equal to membership on Google+.