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February Cause Awareness: Black History Month

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You can do this by visiting a Black history museum or African American heritage site, by reading and sharing books written by Black authors, and by exploring Black music history. Their programs are aimed at increasing digital literacy and helping people gain valuable tech skills to funnel into successful careers.

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Building a Digitally Literate Community

Tech Soup

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Tips for monetizing your nonprofit work

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Karla Lant Lead Writer, Museum of Science and Sustainability. If your nonprofit works to teach adults to read, for example, you are definitely working on a natural capital issue. Lant serves as the Lead Writer for the Museum of Science and Sustainability.

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What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This area, content curation , is a social media competency that I’m focusing in my own learning and teaching. If you think about what a museum curator does, it is very similar. One 21 century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. That’s why I invited Robin Good to skype into my session.

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Leading the Participant

Museum 2.0

If the point of the Discovery Center is to teach students the facts of the Grenada invasion, it's reasonable to create a program in which there's a right and wrong answer about what happened in history. This time, the onscreen actors and educator don't say "good job" or reward the students for their desire to avoid invasion. Maybe, maybe not.

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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. He noted that media literacy has to be integrated as a skill set in all places. It can't just teach them to think about media, but making it on your own terms." local time).

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Notes from the Future: Reflections on the IMLS Meeting on Museums and Libraries in the 21st Century

Museum 2.0

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. What are the essential differences and similarities between libraries and museums?

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