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Meta-funded program teaches tweens about online exploitation

Mashable Tech

Victims of such exploitation often believe they are messaging with another teen and eventually share a graphic or explicit image of themselves. The content offers videos, scripted lesson plans, and interactive classroom activities. The person then threatens to make the picture public unless the victim pays them.

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This new language app is like Netflix meets Masterclass, but for learning French

Fast Company Tech

Julien Frei and Lea Perret [Image: 6pm in Paris] Learning as a lifelong journey Perret imagined 6pm in Paris as a way to help students learn French beyond the classroom. Originally from Toulouse, France, Perret moved to New York 17 years ago and has been teaching French in the U.S. since then.

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Kodland, which teaches kids digital skills, grabs $9M to scale its online coding school

TechCrunch

The courses focus on group- and project-based learning, teaching kids digital skills including coding, website building, games creation, animation and video editing in a way that’s structured to be more fun and interactive than traditional classroom-based lessons. It notes its platform does also offer one-to-one teaching.

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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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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

The Kosch-Westerman Foundation connects terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology. Founder and executive director Pamela Clark says, "Without GoToMeeting, there would have been no way to teach these kids." " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation. " Inward Bound Mindfulness Education.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

Qgiv

Giving Initiative For Teens – Homelessness and Poverty. This is a screenshot of the Giving Initiative for Teens’ Homelessness and Poverty campaign page, an example of a faith-based peer-to-peer event.]. In May of 2020, they decided to start a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign to help combat poverty and homelessness.

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. "We are in a moment of time where 57% of teens produce and share media. Dr. Mizuko Ito made the point that digital learning is happening primarily outside fo the classroom and in more of a social and play context.

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