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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Additional resources: Digital Skills Framework — a taxonomy of digital skills, plus further learning resources to help build skills in each area, aimed at global nonprofits. Using adult learning principles in technology trainings — an NTEN Digital Inclusion Fellow shares a few key lessons about how to (and how not to) train adults.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This morning I attended the MacArthur Foundation Digital Learning briefing that was taking place at the Natural History Museum in NYC. The MacArthur Foundation announced that it will be funding a five-year $50 million initiative, mostly for research, to try to understand how young people are using digital media and its impact learning.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. Photo by Rikomatic.

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