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#MyTechFrenemy

TechCrunch

Some students at the MyTechBestFriend academy have always been a little suspicious of the program and its founder, Mary Awodele. Founded by Awodele in 2020, MyTechBestFriend (MTBF) launched to public acclaim, especially within the Black tech community. The students attending her academy, MyTechBestFriend, were upset.

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How a bot-fighting test turned into edtech’s most iconic brand, Duolingo

TechCrunch

Von Ahn grew up in Guatemala City, where he saw firsthand the wretched state of public schools in impoverished countries. student at top-ranked Carnegie Mellon University when he attended a talk by Yahoo’s chief scientist about 10 of Yahoo’s biggest headaches. CAPTCHA’ing a market. Image Credits: Duolingo.

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IRL is a new social network taking on Facebook groups

The Verge

A handful of universities have now let students enter their school emails to gain access to virtual events and group chats. And Shafi is right to identify groups as a critical area in social networking, as people are increasingly moving away from communicating primarily in public feeds to private chats. Image: IRL.

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Live Blogging ONG Web 2.0 Conference in Romania sponsored by the Soros Foundation in Bucharest

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Talked about the problem of wiki spam and how easy it is to administrator. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students. He talked about the growth of wikipedia. Encourage them to work as a team.

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ASU Lodestar Center Blog: Research Friday: Why Do People Stop Giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

And I tell my students that Ill give to any of the worthy causes they pour their hearts into, but they have to ask me in person (not on Facebook)! The reality is, we're all bombarded with digital messages and shares and likes and spam. Currently (on my lowly grad student budget), I only give money to one nonprofit org.

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Interview with Brooklyn Museum's Shelley Bernstein

Museum 2.0

Spam, obscenity--they just aren't an issue at all. We get so much spam on MySpace, whereas on Flickr and Facebook and the blog we never get spam. We’d received a video PSA from Pratt students, and I proposed the contest. Even criticism has been very contructive. MySpace is, but Facebook isn’t.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

the Exploratorium is a place high school/junior high students go on field trips and make snarky videos at their teachers' behest (source: YouTube ). I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. If I'm an engaged spectator in the groundswell--using Yelp!

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