Tech Soup
JULY 15, 2015
[The concept of] family literacy is also very important in our community. Parents want the kids to have that opportunity to learn, but sometimes parents are not always the best teachers," says Bricker.
Get Fully Funded
MAY 29, 2023
If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent.
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Non Profit Quarterly
DECEMBER 14, 2021
This was part of the national conversation when schools pivoted to online classrooms, which catered to families with reliable internet, ample supply of modern devices, and space to use them. CVAs lament how technology gaps can exclude some people in systematic ways. During the pandemic-induced quarantines, these gaps widened.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 24, 2009
While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. Spend some time at the beginning of your presentation explaining to your audience how you will respond to the twitter stream and audience members are more likely to use it responsibly.
Tech Soup
JUNE 22, 2015
The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. No one would expect to have to protect terminally ill children from hackers, but co-founder Brian Westerman discovered that some of the kids the foundation was helping were being spied on through their laptop cameras.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 19, 2006
The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. Media literacy and creation skills can't be add-ons in schools, but have to be integrated across the curriculum in all subjects. It starts in the home.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JUNE 13, 2007
Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. MacArthur Foundation.
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