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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? Can we help stimulate the creation of far more technology-for-good ventures? Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice.

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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. This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Get A Handle On Your Millennial Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Surges in technology made virtually anything seem possibly if we just give it enough time and effort. And with the introduction of smart technology, this information is only one click or thumb-tap away. Receive his new ebook , Trusted Leadership Advisor by subscribing to his website or follow him on Twitter. You can do it!

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How False Conviction Could Help Science Centers Be More Human

Museum 2.0

It’s not every day that a science center releases an ebook about wrongful conviction in rape and murder cases. This interview is not really about an ebook. My hope is that we can find a way to get it into the science and humanities classrooms in colleges and universities, and I am working on that. You can find it here.

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