National Cristina Foundation 60 Apples

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    •     Sustainability Partner:  National Cristina Foundation Mission:  “The National Cristina Foundation works to promote technology reuse by educating businesses and the public that technology resources coming out of their first place of use can be given a second productive life for developing human potential…The National Cristina Foundation and our grassroots partners are bound by...

    Self Organized Learning Environments

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      • “Self Organized Learning Environments” SOLE installation in Carrick neighborhood, a new group of Crestfield Campers and the CJ Friday crew with a bunch of new faces. All are included with this weeks post.

      CJ and SOLE

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        • Part 1: New volunteers at Computer Reach at Construction Junction and a new project in Pittsburgh serving Bhutanese refugees called the Pittsburgh SOLE .. Funding by The Fisher Fund of The Pittsburgh Foundation. Part 2: The S.O.L.E. concept was pioneered by Sugata Mitra of India, now professor at Newcastle University in the UK. Computer Reach...

        Pittsburgh Post Gazette

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          • TechMan: Grassroots effort to give computers to those who can’t afford them March 10, 2014 11:13 PM By Ced Kurtz / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette One of the most ambitious programs to rehabilitate used computers and get them back into the community at low or no cost is concentrated here in Western Pennsylvania. Computer Reach has worked...

          Apple Computers Going to Kenya

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            •                                           Date:  March 4, 2014 Recipient Organization:  Upako Center Location:  Kawangware, Nairobi, Kenya Description:  Upako Centre, a community based organization, is God’s Agent of change physically, spiritually and socially in the Kawangware community of Nairobi, Kenya.  Upako Centre provides...

            How Tablets, Smart Phones Have Changed the Learning Landscape for Young Children

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              • Theo, 2, gets a turn on the iPad while his 4-year-old brother Max watches.  Credit Deanna Garcia / 90.5 WESA http://wesa.fm/post/how-tablets-smart-phones-have-changed-learning-landscape-young-children Bill Cosby once said “the essence of childhood, of course, is play.” But play for children today is sometimes very different than it was even five or 10 years ago, as the prevalence of...