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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. Don’t run to play Mario just yet though — the game has to be specially designed to fill in lapses in brain activity from the start! Around Gender.

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Great reads from around the web on August 16th

Amy Sample Ward

Technology | The Observer – "American writer Nicholas Carr's claim that the internet is not only shaping our lives but physically altering our brains has sparked a lively and ongoing debate, says John Naughton. ." The internet: is it changing the way we think? Below, a selection of writers and experts offer their opinion."

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Solutionary Women: Jessica Jackley Flannery of Kiva

Have Fun - Do Good

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. When I got an opportunity in high school to travel a little bit, I went to Haiti with a church group, and that was the first time that I really saw abject poverty.

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