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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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TikTok teens’ latest passion is enterprise software

The Verge

Five days into the new year, and TikTok’s hottest 2021 trend is teens using enterprise software to go viral. As if the coronavirus pandemic hadn’t already blurred the lines between work and home enough, students and teens are going viral on TikTok after making Notion boards that mimic teen Tumblr feeds.

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Yahoo’s teen millionaire Nick D’Aloisio on Snapchat, entrepreneurship, and education

The Next Web

It should come as no surprise that Summly founder, teen millionaire, and startup darling Nick D’Aloisio loves Snapchat. D’Aloisio is a huge proponent of startup education, and believes entrepreneurship begins in the classroom. To D’Aloisio, the natural human behavior isn’t to journal everything.

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Hey Nonprofits: Here Comes Gen Z Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

These potential donors are teens (and pre-teens) with a passion for social change and who grew up not knowing what it was like to not to have a cell phone or be connected to Facebook. Many nonprofit fundraisers know about and have specific strategies to reach, cultivate, and solicit baby boom donors, Gen X donors, and Gen Y donors.

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MathAndCoding Turns the Library into a Coding Classroom (Part 2)

Tech Soup

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. Bricker says that there is also another benefit, perhaps an unplanned one, to having teen volunteers. like Texas, where one instructor will be heading to college.

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Apps for Youth, By Youth

Tech Soup

As more tablets and smartphones are making their way into the classroom, it makes sense that there are a number of apps aimed at helping young people with their education and job preparedness. While the app is only available for Washington voters, it could potentially be adopted for other states. School and Job Preparedness. iStudiez Pro.

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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. Gift Guide: 20+ STEM toy gift ideas for aspiring young builders.

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