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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

Generative AIs went from entertaining but ultimately not very useful to possessing, and the change happened overnight.  Generative AIs have the power to transform education. While our upcoming session at bbcon 2023 will focus on where the tools are, we also hope to help shape conversations about where generative AIs are headed.

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Does Your Nonprofit Need Some Data Therapy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments).

Data 101
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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years.

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Networked and Hyperconnected: The New Social (and work) Operating System

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The presentation looks at how younger generations are always connected and are multi-taskers who count on the Internet as their external brain and approach problems in a different way from older generations. It raises the question (unanswered) whether this is a good or bad thing. Being strategically future-minded.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What does the next generation of learning environments look like? Emphasis is on digital literacy. Government funders have a congressional mandate for evaluation of anything that is funded and to use quantitative methods and research analysis. Working on a series of research studies on the benefits of games.

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The Next Step: Performance Management Systems

NTEN

Will you track results of adult literacy tests or teens transitioned into work programs? Easy Support for Capturing Unique Client Records: Does the system automatically generate unique client identifiers complete with key demographic, baseline and outcome data? It should also provide tools for flexible, customized data analysis.

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

For example, a "voting tools" session facilitated by WeVote generated discussion among participants on the barriers to voting and how to reduce them. There were 36 participant-generated sessions on topics as varied as: Addressing sex trafficking in the city. " I saw this principle in practice in the sessions I attended.

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