Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. More Stories, Let's Add Yours.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Their project began with just one or two kids attending classes with the help of a camera and a clunky laptop. A Sickening Discovery.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. More Stories, Let's Add Yours.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

But last year, over Thanksgiving, I sat next to a man who was working on his laptop (not an activity that invites conversation), creating a presentation on elementary education and technology. A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2008

Robin Yap left a comment that he was leaving for Manila to teach social media to educational technology students, so I decided to part with my cherished copy of Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging. My ultimate dream would be to send Dave Warlock 's Classroom Blogging over to the Sharing Foundation's fledging computer school.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

Training on a hoard of ICT topics is available on-line and in the classroom. The GE Crotonville Center is the legendary example An easy "ask" for your local corporations is: can I get a donated seat in your classroom? Students are among the most technology savvy people I know. Share your technology experiences and frustrations.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

InvestWrite is the innovative writing competition that complements SMG and integrates critical thinking and language arts components to reinforce the financial decision-making skills that students learn in the classroom. . There’s an app for that! There are i ndividual and corporate programs available to participate!

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

This USB modem is handy for someone who often travels with their laptop, and needs broadband access as they go. Schools can extend access beyond classroom walls to students without technology resources at home. It must be purchased separately for $120 ($10 per month, paid annually in advance). CLEAR Stick Atlas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2007

Stephen Downes points to his post with the following commentary: This would be pretty funny if it weren't such a sad commentary on our media, not merely for using a photo of Brian Lamb and his laptop out of context, but in pandering to a resurgent anti-computer and anti-networking sentiment.

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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. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students. CVAs lament how technology gaps can exclude some people in systematic ways.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

If you look at the photo closely, you'll notice that Alex replicated her Mac sticker cover for her laptop. I attended a lecture on the use of technology in the legal classroom last month in Second Life, facilitated by Rebecca Nesson. Teams of Harvard Law students enrolled in Evidence will serve as the lawyers. I learned a lot.

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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. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

If you want to keep up with the One Laptop Per Child (OLPC), check out the wiki. This month, the Horizon Wikispace , where teams of students and teachers from around the globe are discusisng and creating what impact of these six emerging technologies in the classrooms. Check out Greenlight Nigeria and Mobile Monitors.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Instead, you can say, “Hey, you are helping us to change the lives of kids like Sam, and I know that that’s why you give because you want to see more students have mentorship and change the trajectory of their life. You’re helping to change lives of these students.” Here’s the link for you to give.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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