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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three reasons kids need digital literacy and citizenship education — and three ways to provide it – Guest Post by Emily Esch. An 8-megapixel camera on your phone? Who knows what’s coming at us?

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Cell Phone Literacy Ideas in China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I just had a great meeting with Jenny Zhao where we talked about the cell phone industry in China. Jenny manages the China operations for a global cell phone technology company. One of our dreams for the Route 66 technology is that it could be used to teach reading to people all over the world, in English as well as other languages.

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Upcoming Webinar on July 30: Adult Library Programs Gone Mobile

Tech Soup

Bringing mobile devices into adult library programs can be an excellent way to promote library e-media and teach digital literacy skills. mobile training webinars Community Tech Centers tsevent library mobile phones libraries event tsevents Accessible Technology digital divide community' Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Corporate Citizenship and Digital Inclusion: Empowering Communities, Nonprofits, and Public Libraries

Tech Soup

For example, summer camps or after-school programs located in these parks can take advantage of the free Wi-Fi to teach computer classes or stream educational movies. Microsoft is also dedicated to making technology accessible to all people through special settings in its software (like Windows 8) and hardware (like Windows Phone).

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A Social Publishing Strategy by John Gautam, Pratham Books

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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4 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Keep Data Private

Tech Soup

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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4 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Keep Data Private

Tech Soup

It's been almost three years since Edward Snowden's revelations about the National Security Agency's (NSA) surveillance of American's online and phone communications and records. " If you do any sort of digital literacy work or job training, privacy and online security is likely already a big part of your curriculum.

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