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Tata Consultancy Services in Mumbai

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We discussed literacy and access for the blind, and I learned about one of Mr. Kohli's passions, which is adult literacy. Citing a lack of trained teachers, TCS had built a PC-based curriculum for teaching reading in 40 hours. As we pulled into the outsourcing zone, my laptop was registered at the gate.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

And…they know technology, so they’re also an asset to help teach other volunteers. A participant from Virginia working in education explained: Because of COVID and the lockdown, our population of 18-to-24-year-olds exploded in the last six months… We’ve never had this many young adults in our program before.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Patrons can also bring their own laptops and tablets and use the library's free WiFi. Lane is planning to do a game design class and is excited about using the MultiPoint Server system as a teaching tool.

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How to Write Effective Web Copy (Part 1): Make It Readable

Connection Cafe

American Literacy is Iffy. Peters, principal of Beverly Hills High School, announced today that the entire school faculty will travel to Sacramento next Thursday for a colloquium in new teaching methods. In this case, students care far more about getting a day off school than a teaching conference. Writing is a way of thinking.

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

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. Founder and executive director Pamela Clark says, "Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach these kids."

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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 can't just teach them to think about media, but making it on your own terms." It starts in the home.

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