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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

This rule change will give more than 18 million low-income Americans $9.25-a-month "Closing the digital divide will take more than one year and more than one policy change. "Mobile computing has boomed, and usability has improved to the point where tablets will start replacing laptops as the mobile computing device of choice.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. In Haiti, a typical adult has just five years of schooling, and the literacy rate is just 53 percent. Donors really are heroes that make it possible for organizations to change lives. And your gift made it happen.

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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. Interested in games for learning and social change. Emphasis is on digital literacy. How do you measure the change?

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

We wanted to know how technology use has changed in volunteer management, especially through the pandemic. As one CVA with a medical nonprofit explained: Our volunteer workforce demographic is changing. The changes in technology are more difficult for some of our older volunteers.”. and Canada about their technology use.

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Wisdom 2.0: Balance in A Hyper Connected World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided to have a different experience than live tweeting and even taking notes on my laptop. I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. I use pen and a note book to take notes!

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? 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.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tool of choice has changed from IRC or Meebo to Twitter and the use of hashtags. What's different is that the backchannel is being used in non-technology conferences. It is being used less for remote participation and more for people in the room.