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Healthy Fear, Healthy Habit: Teaching Privacy to New Internet Users

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Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy. Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum.

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Teaching Online Safety: Building Curriculum

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Last week, TechSoup for Libraries held a webinar called Public Tech Instruction: Teaching the Public on Internet Safety. This was one of the best webinars I've attended (not just because I helped co-produce it) because there was so much resource sharing happening in the comments. Log in and tell us in the comments.

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Microsoft's YouthSpark Initiative Seeks to Close the Opportunity Divide

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Year Up is just one of the five nonprofit organizations Microsoft has partnered with along with the Boys & Girls Clubs of America, City Year, Junior Achievement USA (JA), and Network for Teaching Entrepreneurship. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction. Share your story with us in the comments.

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How a Few Tiny Horses Bucked the Facebook Algorithm

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Gentle Carousel also has a literacy program called Reading Is Magic that brings the horses into schools, libraries, and at-risk youth programs. The photo of Faith with Magic along with her story has 5,302 likes, 1,007 shares, and 1,948 comments as of this writing. Ask for Comments or Have a Call to Action. " This is genius!

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: What It Takes to Lead.

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We welcome your comments and feedback. We too dersire more instruction on financial literacy. Can You Teach a Watchdog New Tricks? A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] Fear not, nonprofit professionals! All You Need is Love.