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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

Remote learning for refugee children in Lebanon: Malala Fund Education Champion Nayla Fahed created Tabshoura, an award-winning e-learning platform that helps Syrian refugees and girls in vulnerable communities in Lebanon learn for free. It doesn’t require internet access. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. A few months ago, I attended Microsoft Citizenship's YouthSpark Connection event and heard first-hand from recent high school graduates about how dire the need for digital literacy is.

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Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

Tech Soup

Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. The Northstar Digital Literacy Project has 33 questions, but only a few touch on safety and security. This Softpedia article outlines topics to cover when teaching seniors how to safely use the Internet.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Internet connectivity was via a T1 line.

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La Conner Regional Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

In most cases, we sent them the instructions, hardware, and software they'd need and then stood back and watched how the installation went. They also have a homework help program for school children and offer a variety of digital literacy computer classes. Internet connectivity was via a T1 line.

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Delicious Bird Tags and Technology Integration

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm working with an afterschool program/ctc lab to develop an instructional technology plan. The poetry program uses poetry books recommended by ReadBoston , one of the first citywide programs designed to help children learn to read. It unites children, families and the community to help children be successful readers by third grade.

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Weaving the Web Into Teaching and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In my opinion, websites need to have more instruction on how educators can make use of the site." " Over the years, I taught many workshops for arts educators on how to integrate the web into the curriculum, although not as much recently since I have two small children. If you have, I would like to know.

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