Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2006

The paper gives examples of different forms of participatory culture: - Affiliations (memberships - formal and informal - in online communities). He also identifies the new literacies and skills -- and while he is talking about this in the context of children and education. Expressions (media creation, mashups, etc).

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