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Bay Area Teens Share the Love of Coding (Part 1)

Tech Soup

It was recently recognized by the City of San Jose for raising awareness of computer science among teens. The Power of Kids Teaching Kids. It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. He saw the potential of Java as a language and tried to expose Vineet to it.

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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. It’s all about teaching digital literacy and citizenship: the knowledge and skills necessary to think critically, behave safely, and interact responsibly in a digital world. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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Reflections of a Nonprofit Heart

ASU Lodestar Center

When I was a young teen, for example, my twin sister and a girlfriend would pass around a football during lunch hour. Exclusive Screening of Saving Philanthropy. Don't miss a very special screening of Saving Philanthropy: Resources to Results. Click here to find out more. Inevitably (and happily) boys would steal our football from us.

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5 Reasons Why You Should Make Mentoring A Priority

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She shared, “The experience with the teens was amazing. Mentoring is a choice to share your experience and knowledge with others. It will transform your emotional state, improve your relationships, build your happiness quotient, and teach you the importance of gratitude and will help you make Your Network Your Net Worth.

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Get to Know the Lodestar Center: Anne Kotleba

ASU Lodestar Center

When they leave here, I want my students to continue to question, learn, teach, and continue to use their education to change the world. A lot of what we existed were drop-in projects—people coming in to teach one activity or work on a project and then leave. I’m very grateful to those young people for teaching me so much.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Trying to engaged the teen-to-twenty-something who normally may not use the research library. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Future Babycastles is in Williamsburg, just opened. Questions and Discussion.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

"We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. There is a gap in social skills, experience, and knowledge when you only have 10-15 minutes of access in library versus 24/7 access at home. We need to understand the properties of how knowledge is exchanged and developed in these peer-based online networks.

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