Fast Company Tech

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As the technology becomes more embedded in daily life, researchers and educators face two distinct hurdles: teaching people to use these tools responsibly rather than over-relying on them while also convincing AI skeptics to learn enough about the technology to be informed citizens, even if they choose not to use it.

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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

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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. and James L. and James L. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 1, 2021

The startup was founded by Tanya Van Court who had her own struggles with financial literacy after losing more than $1 million in stock during the bubble burst of 2001. million to teach financial literacy to kids. The platform even recently introduced a feature called Goalsetter Invest, which allows users to buy and sell stocks.

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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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TechCrunch

MARCH 20, 2023

Duolingo , a language learning app with over 500 million users, is working on a music app, TechCrunch has learned. The job listing suggests that the app will teach basic concepts in music theory using popular songs and teachers. TechCrunch reached out to the company for further comment and will update if we hear back.

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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. Simple Steps for Teaching Privacy. Eff.org/nsa-spying/how-it-works.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 2, 2021

degree or higher, as well as an international teaching certificate such as DELTA, CELTA, TESOL or TEFL. So, Novakid puts most of its energy into rebuilding a curriculum that works with better design, and includes games. Duolingo recently launched Duolingo ABC , a free English literacy app with hundreds of short-form exercises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I’ve been curating resources and teaching workshops on the topic of information coping skills for a couple of years. His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 28, 2012

I've been working closely with Kevin Lynch, the CEO of the Social Enterprise Alliance, on countering the efforts of Salesforce.com to attempt to trademark the name of our entire field, Social Enterprise.

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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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Tableau

JANUARY 8, 2021

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. Working with data is a necessity for most jobs, and analytical skills can be a huge differentiator for success across all kinds of work—whether corporate, nonprofit, or academic. We define data literacy as “the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

We discussed literacy and access for the blind, and I learned about one of Mr. Kohli's passions, which is adult literacy. Citing a lack of trained teachers, TCS had built a PC-based curriculum for teaching reading in 40 hours. As we pulled into the outsourcing zone, my laptop was registered at the gate.

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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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Tableau

JULY 19, 2021

As enterprises tap into the full potential of their data, leaders must work toward empowering employees to use data in their jobs and to increase performance—individually and as part of a team. Here’s how organizations can improve their data literacy with a four-step action plan: 1. Executives. Role-based training.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

Michele Martin and Tony Karer have been blogging at the Work Literacy blog for several months now. Work Literacy is a network of individuals, companies and organizations who are interested in learning, defining, mentoring, teaching and consulting on the frameworks, skills, methods and tools of modern knowledge work.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Meanwhile, other education companies are using artificial intelligence to train both our youngest learners and working professionals who are looking to upskill and adapt to evolving technologies. Through AI simulations, users can practice real-world communication and work on their leadership skills.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Although most people are familiar with the current trend of growing amounts of data, there is a skills gap in data literacy - defined as the ability to explore, understand, and communicate with data. We are thrilled to expand our work with data skills education with Data Literacy eLearning. Join the data skills movement now!

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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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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

MAY 25, 2022

The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security. Build Your Data Literacy. Data Literacy for All.

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Tableau

MAY 25, 2022

The study, ‘ Building Data Literacy: The Key To Better Decisions, Greater Productivity And Data-Driven Organizations ’, found that despite increasing demand for data skills, inadequate training and investments have left business leaders with a false sense of security. Build Your Data Literacy. Data Literacy for All.

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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. There are no courses in our public school systems that teach students how to use a.

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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

AUGUST 9, 2021

Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. More career preparation is needed for virtual jobs .

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Tableau

JULY 29, 2021

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 After immigrating from Brazil in the 1990s, Katya had worked in the sales and marketing fields before having children. Eleanor Cooper , Pathstream CEO.

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Tableau

AUGUST 9, 2021

Although digital competencies like computer literacy and data skills have grown in importance in recent years, the need for digital skills has never been greater. Educators must develop programs to address the digital skills gap and teach digital literacy. More career preparation is needed for virtual jobs.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2012

She has worked in training and education for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, WebJunction, the Public Library Association, the Northeast Kansas Library System, and more. Learn more about e-reader teaching tips during TechSoup's free 30-minute webinar. Join our webinar on Wednesday, August 29 at 11 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 4, 2025

There are environmental organizations that are working year-round to combat environmental issues, climate changes devastating effects, and more. Climate change is just one example of the environmental issues that these organizations work to negate. Environmental organizations work is important, but often underfunded.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

Under our new CTO, Patrick Ball (see my last President's letter), we are building a tech team to work on our incredibly varied list of projects in literacy, human rights and the environment. Route 66 Literacy Our newest project is Route 66 Literacy, and it includes a demonstration site that anyone can try out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2008

For the past two weeks, he has been teaching ??? Another point about goals: Community Literacies esp. Maybe the most important part of the of a course like this are the community literacies that are accumulated through a community enquiry into new material. The learners found that they could work together and rely on each other.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

Martus is used around the world by human rights workers, attorneys, journalists, government officials and others who need to protect their data and the people they work with. We were thrilled to work with the NHRC as a new Martus partner. For five days, we focused on teaching the NHRC staff to use the Martus software.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2013

Collecting and using data is hard work! If you click something and it doesn’t work, simply click “undo.” Ann Emery works for Innovation Network in Washington, D.C. They help nonprofits make sense of their data, learn from their work, and improve their results. Pay attention to what’s not there—your missing data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

They typically run out of steam when the funding runs out, assuming they worked at all. To my delight, the Akshay Pratishthan school had a focus on teaching students with disabilities: roughly half the students had disabilities and were mainstreamed with students without disabilities. She's very sharp!

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