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Nearly a decade after the World Wide Web became widely available, a significant gap persists between minority and white students in their use of that potentially powerful educational tool, according to a federal report.
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Last year, when researchers Justin Patchin and Sameer Hinduja conducted an Internet survey of about 1,400 young people, 34 percent of the respondents reported having been bullied online.
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Yale University said on Wednesday it will offer digital videos of some courses on the Internet for free, along with transcripts in several languages, in an effort to make the elite private school more accessible.
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"It's not that the U.S. education system is not good. It's just that it's impossible to give personalized education at an affordable cost unless you use technology, unless you use the Internet and unless you can use lower-cost job centers like India," he said over a crackly Internet-phone line from Bangalore. "We can deliver that."
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Tech Tales builds on the Storytelling Exchange, helping 7th graders write stories about their lives and turn them into short movies, or digital stories. During this one-month program, Streetside brings a mobile digital media arts lab into the language arts classroom, helping each student take a story idea from pre to post production. Students learn crucial technology and literacy skills.
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The Center for Digital Storytelling is a California-based non-profit 501(c)3 arts organization rooted in the art of personal storytelling. We assist young people and adults in using the tools of digital media to craft, record, share, and value the stories of individuals and communities, in ways that improve all our lives.
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Unicel has teamed up with a national educational organization (The Empower Program) to create StandUp!, a program designed to help its communities better understand how bullying and cyber bullying are affecting our youth. The StandUp! program consists of a national speaking tour to middle schools, a guide titled "StandUp! What Every Parent Needs to Know About Cyber Bullying", as well as this web page.
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i-SAFE Inc. is the worldwide leader in Internet safety education. Founded in 1998 and endorsed by the U.S. Congress, i-SAFE is a non-profit foundation dedicated to protecting the online experiences of youth everywhere. i-SAFE incorporates classroom curriculum with dynamic community outreach to empower students, teachers, parents, law enforcement, and concerned adults to make the Internet a safer place. Please join us today in the fight to safeguard our children’s online experience.
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A valuable resource for educators is www.UthTV.com (pronounced “Youth TV”). Uth TV is an online community of youth (14-24) sharing original video, audio, image, and word creations. Members create profiles, upload their original art/media, receive feedback/ratings from community members, and gain high-profile exposure for their creations.
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Making lists and counting changes meaning of "friends". But Amanda Peters, 17, of Pinole, Calif., worries that friending teaches teens bad social skills. "All these friendships aren't real," says Amanda, who recently wrote a story for a teen literary journal about how friending is getting out of control. "If anything happens where you get annoyed with them, you can just delete them from your list.
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Nearly a decade after the World Wide Web became widely available, a significant gap persists between minority and white students in their use of that potentially powerful educational tool, according to a federal report.
Last year, when researchers Justin Patchin and Sameer Hinduja conducted an Internet survey of about 1,400 young people, 34 percent of the respondents reported having been bullied online.
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