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Weaving the Web Into Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Emily at Emily's World offers her thoughts about "Integrating Web Sites into Teaching." Starting way back in 1995-96 when the web was just starting to explode with content, I focused a lot on searching skills, information literacy skills, how to organize and retrieve your finds, etc.

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MCON13: Working with Millennials

NTEN

To them, there isn''t a distinction between work and life and this is a lesson that Nicole has taken in her own approach to work. In addition, Fifth Third Foundation decided to focus on financial literacy teaching kids in classrooms about money management.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools. The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation. " New Heights Educational Group.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. It is a new form of teaching, not just skill-based learning. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Microsoft Corporation.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

Urban Sprouts teaches youth to grow, harvest, prepare, and eat vegetables from the school garden in order to help them to become more engaged in school, eat better, exercise more, and connect with the environment and each other. Britt Bravo: What does a typical class day look like? And some of them had gardened before.