Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage!

Syria 196

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 10, 2013

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. We don’t know if the student ever gets past Chapter 1. Of course, data has to be collected in ways that match our value systems and respect ethics, privacy, and informed consent.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. government or even (heavens!)

eBook 277

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The other axis represents systems change: does the world work better and differently now as a result of these efforts? They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

Change 100

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). Bookshare is an online library for people who can’t read standard print books. government or even (heavens!)

eBook 107

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