Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. Currently, Mackey is working at McCann-Erickson Worldgroup as a Desktop Support Level I. Libraries Building Bridges.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

I had just read a paper about the LINCOS project in Central America, so this was fresh in my mind. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. She's very sharp!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

It was there that she discovered her passion for teaching others: "When I was working with kids with autism or ADHD, something happened within me where I identified with their experiences. New Heights, by promoting literacy through a wide range of programs, has produced radical results. Inspiring Optimism Through Results.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

million people through national media outreach, including an appearance on "Good Morning America." New Heights Educational Group is an educational support and literacy center for families with children who are struggling in school. The organization's project on Last Polar Bear reached 26.5

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 4, 2007

This year's speaker was journalist, Samantha Power , who received the 2003 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction for her book, A Problem from Hell: America and the Age of Genocide. Anya Achtenberg will be teaching an online workshop, Writing for Social Change: Re-Dream a Just World, later this year. You can subscribe to her blog here.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

They wanted to create a literacy program for themselves because now there was a school where their children could go to school, but they felt embarrassed that they couldn't support their children because they themselves were illiterate. That isn't the case in the developing world.

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