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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning. Since participants were from organizations working on similar content areas, this helped everyone. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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The Digital Divide Doesn't Exist

NTEN

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning.

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The Faces of International Development

Forum One

Can we really debate one laptop per child and mobile access when kids may really just need food, clothes and school books? Empowerment is key. Congratulations to SID for encouraging empowerment and asking organizations to step back and really focus on where the heart of their international development pursuit lies.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Students get a minute to think about the question on their own and then answer it using a mobile device that sends their answers to Mazur’s laptop. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions. Next, he asks the students to turn to the person sitting next to them and talk about the question.

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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We had wifi in the room and participants brought their laptops – this give us the opportunity for open lab time or what I call “shoulder to shoulder” learning. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. One participant told me that she never learned so much about social media in so short a time.

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