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Data and the Human Touch

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. Sophia and her family were left confused and concerned about her future in the classroom. There were several years where Kevin struggled in school because his vision was blurry and this made reading normal size print grueling.

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Zerofootprint: A Cool Approach to Sustainability

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Do they leave the lights on in all the classrooms all night? As a human, I zero in right away on the schools that are spending ten times as much per student as their most efficient comparable schools in the same neighborhood. Are they running the heat with the windows open during the winter? Are they using a boiler built in 1910?

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Visiting Schools in Pohnpei

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. We went into a classroom where I could immediately tell that the teacher there as well as one of the students both had the condition. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

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You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. . - Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better.

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Indian Publishing legend visits Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He’s been a grassroots publisher/distributor (with a unique operational model) for decades and has spent years riding buses to obscure corners of his state to read works of literature to people in living rooms, classrooms and various public spaces…I think his humility, dedication and generosity touched all of us who were a part of his visit.

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Beijing School for the Blind

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We visited the English language classroom. These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

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With Bookshare, our student members can access and read the books they need—in the classroom, at home, and on the go—and have a fair opportunity to succeed at school just like their peers without disabilities. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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