Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. It works well for students in the United States, but we’re still not reaching American adults to the extent we would like.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

In early education, children learn the fundamentals of reading and writing in order to communicate, collaborate, and contribute in the world. According to the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner, there are over 75 million unemployed youth between the ages of 15-24 and that there are twice as many unemployed young people than adults.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

As always, we try to use this blog post to speak from our experience as a learning technology partner to organizations that provide continuing education and professional development. We manage continuing education (CE) credit transactions: a learner completes a CE activity and receives CE credit, or “credit hours,” in return.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2015

It has trained more than 470 students seventh grade and up in 13 libraries throughout Silicon Valley. Students bring their own laptops to a public library, and receive instruction from high school-aged instructors. "It's definitely easier for us to connect with the kids, since the age gap isn't that big.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 28, 2008

(To learn more about the Sharing Foundation, see this article ) I've been reaching out to my network, and Vicky Davis is one of the people I turned to for to ask for help with the from her network of wired educators. Computer education groups repeat on a rotating basis. One of the students asked if Google was the best search engine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2008

Nonetheless, there is a nonprofit perspective and my instructional materials and experience speak to that audience. I've worked with other groups - small business, higher education, librarians, educators, and others, but never all mixed up. So, I changed delivery tactics and it worked! The discussion was fantastic.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

This projection is set to grow throughout at least the next two presidential terms, and I for one would like to help educate potential users on all of the great features of which they can be getting out of their learning environments. Topic 2: Where is the LMS Industry Going? Just what exactly should people be able to do within my LMS?

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2006

Campus Compact Campus Compact is a national coalition of more than 950 college and university presidents - representing some 5 million students - dedicated to promoting community service, civic engagement, and service-learning in higher education. I love placing college students in service learning positions.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Sometimes, this even included an army of college students going door-to-door, ICU nurses convincing hospital staff to join, businessmen calling meetings to let their employees know about the contest, and other offline work. It was definitely a full time job during the last 2 weeks of the contest. How did they do it?

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Gyrus

JULY 7, 2016

The manner in which education is perceived varies uniquely between these two platforms. The goal output of educational LMS are forming a foundation of understanding on a chosen path of learning, whereas employee training is strictly ROI (Return on Investment). Organizational Definitions. Educational Terms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. Guide your students to conversations and resources. Research to incorporate in instructional materials. Collaboration on student projects or other ways. What does this mean in an educational context ? Step 1: Find People. Hiring people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

Back to the Roots’ mission is to make food personal again through the passionate development of tools that educate and inspire, one family at a time. Instead of spending months or years developing a program, SamaUSA launched with a Minimum Viable program (MVP): a 10-week training program and a first cohort of 20 students.

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