TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The funding was led by Seae Ventures , with participation from Fiserv , Mass Mutual , Citizens Financial Group , Astia Fund , NBA stars Kevin Durant and Carmelo Anthony, and actors Anthony Anderson and Lance Gross. million to teach financial literacy to kids. Goalsetter raises $3.9

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

While at Copper, Rush led efforts to teach children about investing, but found that replacing the word “stock” with “crypto” was driving more engagement. million investment from Madrona, The Venture Collective, Santa Clara Ventures and a group of angel and individual investors. Stack banks $2.7M

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Our mission is to lower the barrier of entry to learning analytics and build data literacy skills in future generations. . or “How can I, as an educator, get better at Tableau to teach students?” Tableau Academic Programs works towards data literacy for all, such as our data literacy curriculum for higher education.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Privacy has always been an important topic in digital literacy. Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. And when websites or services rely on big data, certain groups are at a disadvantage.

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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

Our mission is to lower the barrier of entry to learning analytics and build data literacy skills in future generations. or “How can I, as an educator, get better at Tableau to teach students?” Tableau Academic Programs works towards data literacy for all, such as our data literacy curriculum for higher education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

And while I haven’t done an in-depth map of this space, I keep thinking that a network of intermediaries (people who teach skills, connect skilled volunteers, generate discussion — those data nerds ) is missing. (I I may be wrong, let me know in the comments).

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Kindful

JUNE 8, 2021

But some general knowledge about financial literacy will bode well. Take advantage of National Literacy Month. Teach them about fundraising. Simply getting new members to understand how to read a finance statement is another first step to financial literacy for board members. Take advantage of National Literacy Month.

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Tableau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Despite data skills being the most in-demand skill in today’s (and tomorrow’s) job market, there’s still a data literacy gap. . Start building your data skills—for free—with the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. To fill this void, we created the Build Your Data Literacy Trail on Trailhead. . Data Literacy Basics.

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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.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 12, 2013

For the past six months I have worked with YWCA Maricopa County , expanding its Own It Financial Education program , which provides low-income women and families a free education teaching them how to become financially stable and independent. One of the first classes I organized at the YW was for a group of young teenage mothers.

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Tableau

JUNE 11, 2022

According to a recently released Forrester Consulting study commissioned by Tableau about data literacy and culture in global enterprises, organizations that have a companywide mandate to their data literacy training have higher employee satisfaction levels with training offerings than those that focus at the team or department level.

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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.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Doyobi , a Singapore-based professional development platform, wants to give educators new, more engaging ways of teaching STEM subjects. Curiosity, imagination and empathy are just as important as literacy and numeracy skills,” he said. The edtech boom has focused primarily on students, but teachers are learners, too.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

At Tableau, we have had a front-row seat to the rising need for data skills across all organizations, all communities, and groups. 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

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Over the past few years, I have seen human rights groups become much more sophisticated about how they use technology to document human rights abuses. If a human rights group has a computer stolen or seized, the information it contains can put victims and witnesses in danger of retribution.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

One corporate chief executive offered extensive in-kind support for our digital literacy enterprises that provide the disabled access to talking books and teach reading to teenagers and adults who are not yet literate. I was impressed and encouraged with the thoughtfulness and engagement of the chief executives in my small group.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2022

AARP Innovation Labs, the incubator program, highlights the many facets of aging in its CES’ virtual presentation with a roster of startups that were divided into five groups: community, clinic, wellness, financial services and housing. Goalsetter raises $15 million to go B2B with children’s financial literacy app.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“These next years will be critical for leaders as they strive to become more digitally resilient, to raise their enterprise intelligence, and take advantage of opportunities,” said Dan Vesset , group VP, Analytics and Information Management market intelligence and advisory practice at IDC. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

According to a survey by the University of California at Santa Cruz , the number of working African American business owners fell more than 40% during the pandemic—a much steeper drop than other racial groups. Becoming a customer can help these businesses stay open and serve their communities’ needs, whatever they may be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

The next day, the whole group had an opportunity experience The Llama Pack Project first hand, by going on a half-day trek in the Sacred Valley. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy. That is what the #Tech2Empower program is all about!

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

The startup’s first product will focus on increasing data literacy within startups. It will group employees into 30- to 40-person groups before putting them into an eight-week learning experience, which includes asynchronous projects and live events. Per Shimkus, he and Yang were able to raise $6.8

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2012

This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. ” This brave group beta tested not only the content in the book, but also the workshop curriculum that I will be teaching during 2013.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 10, 2021

“These next years will be critical for leaders as they strive to become more digitally resilient, to raise their enterprise intelligence, and take advantage of opportunities,” said Dan Vesset , group VP, Analytics and Information Management market intelligence and advisory practice at IDC. and/or its affiliates in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

Since I'm going to be teaching the Listening Module for the WeAreMedia workshop in February, I'm going to write up some step-by-steps on how to do this with different monitoring tools. Social Listening Literacy Skills. Start with a couple of people who you know or who represent the group of people you want to listen to.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

Internet safety can be a tricky subject to teach. essential skill to include in basic digital literacy instruction, but. determining what content to include and how to teach it can present many challenges. design curriculum and teach classes without a fear of becoming outdated. organizations. and up to date.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 20, 2013

"We hope that free Wi-Fi will be a resource that the city and other local groups will be able to use in their efforts to bridge the digital divide and make their community stronger," said Veronica Bell, a senior manager for public policy and government relations at Google, in a statement. Microsoft's YouthSpark. century jobs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

Pew reports that the groups least likely to want to use the Internet are senior citizens, disabled people, monolingual Spanish speakers, adults with less than a high school education, and those living in households earning less than $30,000 per year. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries'

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Tableau

DECEMBER 4, 2020

Just as a professional who takes a job abroad needs to immerse herself in the native tongue, businesses who value data literacy need ways to immerse their people in the language of data. . How to foster data communities and literacy. Executive leadership needs to do more than just sponsor data communities and mandate data literacy.

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Tableau

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The 2020 Zen Masters brought their passion and expertise to a new generation, creating content for our Data Literacy for All eLearning program that provides data skills fundamentals, regardless of skill level. We have offered the 2020 Zen Masters an early invitation to join the 2021 group. We look forward to hearing from you.

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

At Tableau, we have had a front-row seat to the rising need for data skills across all organizations, all communities, and groups. 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

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Virtual advocacy opportunities — Teach volunteers to be strong advocates for your cause. You can also create a social media group to share information about your fundraising campaign. LinkedIn and Facebook are great places to create group pages to share important information with fundraising participants.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Participating VC firms in this new financing include other follow-on investors Mercy Corps Ventures, Coinshares Ventures and Lateral Capital–and new investors such as Circle Ventures, Moonstake, Emurgo, Hashkey Group and BPI France. Jason Yanowitz, co-founder of Blockwoks is one of the angels in the round. .

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

That could take the shape of courses, mentorships or work experience, or dedicated schools such as SoftBank’s Operator School , where a selection of SoftBank’s portfolio companies and network teach tech skills. More people could start or join advocacy groups online, giving underrepresented demographics a platform to be heard.

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Tableau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

We’ll teach you how to make a viz with Tableau that provides uniquely personal insights with an easy to understand interface, step-by-step. Making Groups. To highlight specific metrics on our charts and graphs, we’ll need to learn how to make groups. Playlist Name (Groups). Making Groups. Using Tooltips.

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The Verge

MARCH 12, 2021

By teaching Parrot.Py Both VoiceAttack and GAVPI require more tech literacy than just running a game by itself, and Parrot.Py Microsoft’s Xbox Adaptive Controller was developed with guidance from advocacy groups like AbleGamers to better address the needs of disabled players. requires at least a basic familiarity with coding.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. We had a similar experience recently here at Microsoft when we heard a story about a student who participates in our Technology Education And Literacy in Schools (TEALS) program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2018

Apps and websites cannot replace the communities that have always connected and supported us, but they can help diverse and dispersed groups coordinate care in unprecedented ways.”. Schools must teach digital street smarts … from an early age, kids should learn about bots and automatically-generated content.

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