Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Children love their freedom. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education. During the pandemic, these local education leaders have been critical in identifying and launching initiatives that not only assist girls in continuing their education during school closures, but also help them get back in the classroom when schools reopen.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2021

From the Malala Fund to the University of Maryland to LEGO, the momentum for climate-related change is just beginning — led by insights from children, women and girls, engineers, and investors. We’ve compiled a list of some of the most compelling and promising ideas from across the education, nonprofit, business, and philanthropy sectors.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 29, 2022

From classrooms to districts to state houses across America, they are reimagining education to realize the day when every child has an equal opportunity to learn, lead, thrive, and co-create a future filled with possibility. Success Story: Helping Children Heal With Riley Children’s Foundation +Salesforce.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Children love their freedom. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 29, 2021

We partnered with organizations like UNICEF in their critical work to prevent depression and anxiety in children. And we helped equip educators to better engage with thousands of students when classrooms had to become virtual. It has been a year of challenge and change.

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

A former superintendent of such a district, he explained the basic premise to me: each student, from kindergarten on, has a personal laptop. The schools have open wireless internet, so each student has continual access to the Web. To many of these folks, Bob's wired classrooms seem threatening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

GivingTuesday is done it again with its K-12 Philanthropy Curriculum , a set of lesson plans that teachers can use to help their students participate in GivingTuesday by raising money for a local nonprofit. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. The Giving 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2017

The latter may be due how children are taught in the Finnish educational system. Before I left for Finland, I read Timothy Walker’s Teach Like Finland: 33 Simple Strategies for Joyful Classrooms. And, it pays off as students perform better on educational tests than their peers in other European countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

Rufina’s new job is working for an education software start up that is developing operational software for schools It is called: EnTeEf: “Enabling Teachers’ Effectiveness “ in classrooms. This prompted some amazing questions for children that age anywhere: How many jets did you take to get to India? www.enteef.com.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

And that’s not to mention the hassle that sometimes comes with trying to get young children excited about reading. However, with a read-a-thon fundraiser, you can give your supporters the opportunity to slow down and crack open a book while also teaching young students the value of reading and escaping into exciting stories.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, even if a student is attending a lower-priced college, such as a community college, all that time being put in could have been used towards earning money, so that comes at a cost to the learner. Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Dear Ellen, Your gift could not have come at a better time to guarantee a seat in our program to a deserving student! You answered our call for donations so students could move off our waiting list and into classrooms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2012

Peeragogy comes from Howard Rheingold via his Social Media Classroom and he explains it here: When I participated in the Change: Education, Learning, and Technology MOOC , I grew even more interested in the intersection of digital media/networks with self-directed learners and collaborative learning methods. .” It resonated.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Support for Autistic Children in the U.S. Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

In a recent email, she described her newest project: In years past, our gratitude has been invested in changemakers from the US, Tanzania and Nepal to build classrooms, a library, a children’s technology lab, a temporary home for disabled veterans, and more. With $250, you can make room for a student in a classroom.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2008

The main goal of visiting Micronesia is for me to gain a real-world perspective on schools and books for students with disabilities. The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. Instead of windows, they have heavy screens.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

DPDO supports the operation of fifteen elementary schools in North Darfur and they are responsible for teacher salaries and providing classroom supplies (Total Enrollment: 8300 students; Teachers: 160 plus 56 support staff). Want to learn more and get involved?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents. A Simple Solution for a Complex Problem. What is so special about Ordyslexie?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Support for Autistic Children in the U.S. Because computers in classrooms are so important for disabled children, they make optimum use of the accessibility features in Microsoft Windows and Microsoft Office.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The church sponsors the Beardstown Christian Academy , which is a pre-K through 8 elementary school that serves 110 children. Jay said that they support 30 PC in offices, classroom, and a school computer lab. In the school there are two PCs in each classroom, and the 12-station computer lab is used mostly for research.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

While many children are taught about giving to charity at home, we are seeing more and more philanthropy curriculum being integrated into the classroom. Here’s some examples of 10 big time philanthropists who are kids, including a 13 year old who raised $600,000 for charity. The Giving 2.0

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 9, 2008

So, in Hong Kong and in Beijing we saw sensory stimulation rooms for these children. We visited the English language classroom. We enjoyed getting a chance to chat with a couple of the students who were impressively fluent. Students and staff all get the chance to experience massages at the hands of the trainees.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. The program offers year-round dance lessons and an annual event in which 80 children are joined by volunteers from professional dance schools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 30, 2011

We all had the " An apple a day keeps the doctor away " motto ingrained into our heads as children. It's August, school's back in session, and besides traffic being a pain in the you-know-where again, children are back in the classroom with their thinking caps on. What I'm reminiscing-ly trying to get at here is.we

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2006

Learning.now is a weblog that explores how new technology and Internet culture affect how educators teach and children learn. This newly launched blog on PBS TeacherSource is written by Andy Carvin , thought leader on the topics of digital divide, nonprofit technology, and educational technology.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2015

It is comforting to know that 200 trees were planted, that 50 dogs found loving homes and that a classroom of 45 students went on a field trip – all thanks to donors like us. If you believe that all children deserve access to quality food, and an organization has said that it is their belief, too, you want to hear about it.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

No matter your position or place in life, it is imperative to create opportunities for children, so that we can grow up to blow you away.”. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. And they are already blowing us away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2007

We need to encourage the development of easy to use, safe, classroom environments that can be controlled by the teacher but also allow students to enter 3D virtual environments. If we do not advocate for effective classroom measures in second life, we will have to take it as it is. Are you preparing them for that?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2014

To facilitate this initiative, nonprofit leaders must actively recruit students, teachers, and administrators to visit their organizations and utilize their resources. With these efforts, children will make arts and cultural participation a habit, and continue this habit into their adult lives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

He could no longer keep up with his peers in the classroom. In the United States, there are all too many students like Kevin, who are denied equal opportunity to engage in the same curriculum as their peers without disabilities. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

.” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. This includes some of the most basic student essentials.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

Doron doesn’t work with A students or B students. Today, there are thirty kids fidgeting in a classroom, talking to their friends, messing with their phones. He strategically includes images of students from Pajaro Valley High, so when he asks, “See anyone you know on here?” Before their teen years, children are sponges.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 27, 2021

Teach For America (TFA) is an education nonprofit operating in support of a vision that one day all children in the United States will have the opportunity to attain an equitable and excellent education. Success Story: Creating Engaging Student Journeys With St. Changing the Technology Strategy. Written by Blake Becker.

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