Future Tense If you use Facebook, you’re probably familiar with the sort of post shown in the image above. It’s called “like-baiting,” and it has run amok on the social network in recent years. That’s because the software that determines what we see at the top of our Facebook news feed is tuned to show us posts that lots of other people have liked, shared, or commented on. Corporate brands, media outlets, and other "content producers" have learned this, and many now use like-baiting to game the system. People’s responses to like-baiting fall into three categories. It’s that third group that’s been ruining things for those of us in the first group. In a blog post on Thursday, Facebook announced that it’s tweaking the news feed to crack down on like-baiting, along with other forms of “spammy” content. Facebook will also be taking aim at pages that routinely re-post old photos and videos in a bid to squeeze more likes out of them.
Story of the Week Free-Ed.Net London Review of Books · 11 April 2013 Culture Making | Andy Crouch, Nate Barksdale and friends on faith and culture Why Schools Don't Educate I accept this award on behalf of all the fine teachers I've known over the years who've struggled to make their transactions with children honorable ones, men and women who are never complacent, always questioning, always wrestling to define and redefine endlessly what the word "education" should mean. A Teacher of the Year is not the best teacher around, those people are too quiet to be easily uncovered, but he is a standard-bearer, symbolic of these private people who spend their lives gladly in the service of children. This is their award as well as mine. We live in a time of great school crisis. Our school crisis is a reflection of this greater social crisis. I've noticed a fascinating phenomenon in my twenty-five years of teaching - that schools and schooling are increasingly irrelevant to the great enterprises of the planet. Our form of compulsory schooling is an invention of the state of Massachusetts around 1850. Now here is a curious idea to ponder. It's not enough.
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