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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

She refused to see a PG-13 movie until she was actually 13. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She doesn't like to hear bad words. Leave a comment »

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Thinking tech for a 14 year old with autism

Judi Sohn

She refused to see a PG-13 movie until she was actually 13. Not so much for content, as I explained, but to make sure that she's not using it in school to play games or watch videos when she's bored. Any other suggestions for giving a young teen an iPad? She doesn't like to hear bad words. Leave a comment »

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Guest Post by Nina Simon -- Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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Self-Expression is Overrated: Better Constraints Make Better Participatory Experiences

Museum 2.0

There are so many more people who join social networks, who collect and aggregate favored content, and critique and rate books and movies. Allowing visitors to select their favorite exhibits in a gallery or comment on the content of the labels isn’t seen as valuable a participatory learning experience as producing their own content.

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NPTechTag Roundup: Election Debriefs and Wikis in Your Kitchen!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It will be interesting to see if this advice holds true for the voters of the future based on Dannah Boyd's post " What i mean when i say "email is dead" in reference to teens. CHBN provides a free service for broadcasting member-generated political video content. "Do young people have email accounts?

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Mall Science: Lessons in Consumer Appeal

Museum 2.0

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Big Data Without Defining Success First Is A Big Mistake

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DoSomething.org has a big hairy social change goal: To harnesses teenage energy and unleash it on causes teens care about by launching a national campaign. It was a text campaign where teens opted in to receive texts on their mobile phones from the “baby.”

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