Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. To mention a few: . To mention a few: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 11, 2021

Having better tools to teach remotely are critical for situations when the physical experience has to be shut down, but even when things are “back to normal”, better tech can still enhance what educators and students can do, and to whom teaching can be delivered. “Now everyone is much more focused on multi-modality.”

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 24, 2021

The number of low-income students attending college is increasing: According to a 2016 report from the Pew Research Center , the total share of undergraduate college students who come from low-income families increased from 12% in 1996 to 20% in 2016. More posts by this contributor. 10 Men Making Waves For Women In Tech. Are adaptable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2006

I am fascinated by the possibilities of blogging in the foreign language classroom. I am pleased that students who were somewhat limited in their exposure to multiple points of view on issues and culture are now being introduced to them and like this are broadening their horizon. This Blog is an experiment. The tools of Web 2.0

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters. Nadia Khan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Based on that message, at the following 30th TED conference in Vancouver, Canada, I delivered an onstage exhortation to fellow technologists to secure their customers’ sensitive information in response to Edward Snowden’s surprise virtual TED interview. And we do this at a per-book cost less than one-tenth of the traditional approaches!

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Tableau

OCTOBER 6, 2021

In fact, Tableau recently commissioned Forrester to investigate the data literacy gap, and according to The Great Data Literacy Gap: Demand for Data Skills Exceeds Supply , only 66% of surveyed academic decision-makers rated data literacy and skills as important for students to learn to graduate, compared to 81% of recruiters. Nadia Khan.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

In conjunction with Aulas en Paz (Peaceable Classrooms), a multi-component pedagogical project designed to promote social and civic competencies and conflict resolution among primary-school students, Dance 4 Peace was designed, implemented, and evaluted in public schools in the outskirts of Bogotá.

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2021

An Indian startup that began its life after the global pandemic broke last year said on Tuesday it has concluded its third financing round as it enables hundreds of thousands of teachers in the world’s second-largest internet market to run classes online and serve their students. Bangalore-based Teachmint said today it has raised $16.5

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

In my interview, I shared that I didn’t know a modem from microwave, but that I had the passion and curiosity to learn and teach others. He described the method as an alternative to technology lab classroom skills-based trainings. My passion was the opportunity for learning and that’s what motivated me.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

In a statement, Felix Ohswald, co-founder and CEO of GoStudent said: “Education has seen a whirlwind of change, from remote classrooms to increased academic ambitions, and we believe there is a big opportunity to transform how students learn all over the world by expanding access to quality education.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This means new challenges ahead in scaling Bookshare.org to serve every single student with a print disability in the U.S. In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

Content delivery is less important then the skill to making sense of it and that needs to be what “classroom time” is about. The instructor’s role should be to facilitate this understanding for their students, not dump content on them. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 16, 2008

Since I was a first year college student at UC Berkeley, I have been working with students and schools in low-income communities and have grown increasingly aware of how educational disparities keep children from reaching their potential. That lead me to Jennifer Rauch, the co-founder of The Generation Project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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TechCrunch

APRIL 17, 2023

That business has seen some encouraging traction, with 15,000+ teachers from 2,000 schools using its tools to teach math to 350,000 students. Innovamat has brought the fun of learning math to our students and the joy of teaching math to our teachers. Most recently, it started its first K-5 pilots in the U.S., in New Jersey.

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TechCrunch

MAY 15, 2023

The interviews are led by top TechCrunch editors (and me). Identity and identifying a good deal Today’s interview was led by TechCrunch Global Managing Editor Ingrid Lunden. Today’s interview was led by TechCrunch Senior Reporter and edtech expert Natasha Mascarenhas. I’d love to have you watch the events live.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

Since 2011, Tableau Academic Programs have been supporting the growing need for data skills by offering free resources for learning and teaching Tableau in the classroom - 1.6 million students - and counting - have acquired data skills through our program. To mention a few: . To mention a few: .

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TechCrunch

MAY 24, 2022

” The process of assessment and tutoring works much as it did before, when schools would contract out to private psychologists in their areas to perform in-person interviews. “The reality is not all students are even going to get to the point where they get qualified. Image Credits: Parallel Learning.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Through its Education and Community Outreach programs, the Symphony helps bring music into the lives of over 14,000 school children each year - students who may not otherwise have access to a symphony. That school is amazing – it’s offering students the chance to be immersed in the Mi’maq culture and language for 7 hours a day.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

We saw the potential in this story and dispatched a reporter and photojournalist to interview the town's residents, write up a feature for our online newspaper, and create a photo essay. A TEALS teaching assistant for a classroom in rural Kentucky noticed the transformation of a young man involved in the program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2007

The role of the Journalist Panel is: These journalists will be given priority access to the teachers and on a permission basis will be allowed to interview students with teachers present. The purpose is to promote wider scale discussion and pursuit of collaborative projects among the K12 classrooms. Who had input?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

While I was there, I got a tour, visited some classrooms, and talked to a few students. In one classroom, I queried the students about their social media use. In the article, the author interviewed Walter J. according to a recent Pew Internet and American Life Project.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

This week's Solutionary woman is Viet-Ly Nguyen, a former co-worker from Streetside Stories , who I interviewed for my Big Vision Podcast last winter. Our writing workshops focus on autobiographical writing and storytelling, and we actually do a lot of storytelling performance and theater with the students.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 28, 2021

So, even if a student is attending a lower-priced college, such as a community college, all that time being put in could have been used towards earning money, so that comes at a cost to the learner. Salesforce is a perfect example of a platform that’s powering business, but is very rarely taught in college classrooms.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 16, 2014

There’s probably a specific classroom you remember from those earlier days, and a teacher who left a huge impact on your life. After all, their organization was built to provide programs that help students in the classroom by providing resources and making education interesting. And PENCIL, Inc.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 8, 2012

In 264 pages, Dixon, with ten years of classroom experience in public, private and charter schools, shares his deep knowledge of social media to provide detailed descriptions of the best online tools available for school leaders. Dixon addresses the issues of school policies, online student safety, and whether or not to use Facebook.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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AccelEvents

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

These types of events may also provide a sense of community when distance learning, so it is important to put your best foot forward and consider a more sophisticated virtual event platform so that you are sure to impress parents, students, and possible donors. Schedule one night for your students and family members to meet each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2015

And last year, when I interviewed Barb Newhouse, President & Chief Executive Officer ALS Association and discuss the Ice Bucket Challenge, she mentioned they acquired many new “Gen Z” donors. But it is more than the technology, it is also their passion to do good in the world. The Giving 2.0

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NTEN

AUGUST 16, 2011

Ludwig is a game aimed at educators and students alike. Since most educational games struggle to find logical ways to be integrated into a classroom, Ovos took a different approach by creating a game based solely on curriculum-based material. JURY FEEDBACK. THE BOTTOM LINE.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2016

We’d like to provide our readers with a peek into what we do each day to accomplish our mission by introducing members of the faculty and staff via short interviews and conversations. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance (NLA) is a student association for undergraduates interested in nonprofit careers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2005

So, I tracked him down for an interview. I formed Community Networking Technologies (CNT) with another law student (Rachel Ogdie, now my wife Yeh!) We taught our NetCorps students skills such as running meetings, performing needs assessments, project management, etc. After a little digging, I figured it out was Carnet Williams!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

If you want to learn more about what I’ll be talking about, read this interview in the Guardian. And there is Jack Andraka , a high school student who got obsessed with finding a cure for cancer and created a test that can detect pancreatic cancer. Gen Z By The Numbers. They are not content to just sit and click.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Gateway to the Arts is a Pittsburgh-based organization that exposes young people to the arts through performances, classroom visits by professional artists, and integration of arts into school curriculum, all with a staff of six. “They specifically asked us to introduce them to members of our audience they could interview.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

He hasn't neglected the traditional tools either - yesterday he and I as well as Elisa Camahort were interviewed on the BBC about this issue. Here's her advice for educators, students, and parents on how to stop Cyberbullying Today!: SHARE - Plan to show this video to your students. The Human Genome project.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

.” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We then gave them access to referrals and you know what, 90% of the students did not follow up on the referrals. They had to deal with their own students and their own curriculum. And so we identified this desire, right? We listened to them.

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