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Three Reasons Kids Need Digital Literacy and Citizenship Education

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Photo by WhiteAfrican. As a parent of wired kids, I think teaching digital literacy is very important for parents to do. Three reasons kids need digital literacy and citizenship education — and three ways to provide it – Guest Post by Emily Esch. Teaching them to use creative tools responsibly?

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Sean MacEntee. We’re streaming video, posting photos, sharing personal information and listening to music, not to mention “checking in” wherever we go. At Common Sense Media , we believe that treating others’ information carefully, and teaching others to do the same, is a key factor in building and maintaining trust.

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Tech2Empower: The Llama Pack Project

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In the photo, the team is walking her through some of the technical parts of the new system. That photo above is a picture of one of Mr. Luis’s llama looking straight at me part way through our trek. They teach local families healthy llama breeding practices, tourism services and environmental literacy.

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To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and Is That The Question?):GlobalGiving’s Experiment With Facebook Promoted Posts

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But how will you know the answer if you don’t set up a test and use measurement and data to help you answer it. This is called “data literacy” — setting up a hypothesis and a way to measure it – and analyzing the results and deciding how to improve. To Promote or Not to Promote? (…and

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Step-by-Step: How To Set Up A Nonprofit Listening Post (Twitter - Part 1)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Photo by Andy Field I think Chris Brogan said that the secret to Twitter is listening (or search), not blasting your message out. 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. I'm paraphrasing.

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Durff's Slide Show: Why Integrate Blogging

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. Did you have to use your own photos as part of the assignment? What are you trying say about the connection between blogging and literacy?

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She was teaching an engineering course, and her students were using simulation software to model turbines for jet engines. He has an intricate hierarchy of file folders on his computer, and he sorts the photos on his smartphone by category. She’d laid out the assignment clearly, but student after student was calling her over for help.

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