Black Family Technology Awareness Web Resources
A large and growing number of America’s Black Families are making technology an important part of their daily lives. They regularly use the technologies that affect most facets of their lives. In fact, nearly 50% of Black Families are actively using computers in their homes and close to 30% have access to the Internet at home. These numbers are encouraging but when compared to White non-Hispanic families with computers in over 85% of their homes and home Internet access approaching 60%, the gap is serious, important, and not closing.
The Black Family Technology Awareness campaign is aimed at helping those Black Families who aren’t taking full advantage of today’s technologies. Technologies that can significantly improve their quality of life. The campaign’s goal is to eliminate the Digital Divide for those families by exciting them about the importance of having a personal computer and Internet access at home and by explaining how they can and why they should make that a reality in their lives.
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 Khan Academy The premier learning portal on the web. |
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Free Technology for Teachers. Free Resources and Lesson Plans for Teaching with Technology |
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12 Dozen Places To Educate Yourself Online For Free Here at “Marc and Angel Hack Life” we enjoy sharing practical thoughts on a broad range of topics pertaining to life, hacks, productivity, aspirations, health, work, tech and general self improvement. We promise you will not find a regurgitation of someone else’s point of view on our site. Regardless of the topic at hand, these views are our own |
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Apps and Devices for Schools Apps and Devices for Schools |
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LearnOutLoud's Free Courses Collection The LearnOutLoud.com Free Courses Collection features over 400 free online courses available on audio and video. In this collection you'll find free college level courses from top universities such as Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UC-Berkeley, UCLA, MIT, and many other prestigious institutions of learning. We've also added free courses from other sources such as podcasts, YouTube channels, and more. And these are all available for free on audio & video formats such as streaming video or MP3 audio download. Start a free course today! |
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Detroit Digital Justice Coalition The Detroit Digital Justice Coalition is comprised of people and organizations in Detroit who believe that communication is a fundamental human right. We are securing that right through activities that are grounded in the digital justice principles of: access, participation, common ownership, and healthy communities. |
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Android Freeware Best and Free Software for Android mobile platform. |
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TED-Ed TED-Ed's mission is to capture and amplify the voices of great educators around the world. We do this by pairing extraordinary educators with talented animators to produce a new library of curiosity-igniting videos. |
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Coursera We offer high quality courses from the top universities, for free to everyone. We currently host courses from Princeton University, Stanford University, University of California, Berkeley, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor, and University of Pennsylvania. We are changing the face of education globally, and we invite you to join us. |
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RepYourCity RepYourCity.com aims to be a hub for all community activity online and offline. We will utilize the free flow of the broad Internet and promote our technology as a tool to propagate offline community engagement through. Our overall goal is to redefine social networking and what it means to truely represent one’s city. |
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Help and How to for Windows Our team has one simple mission: provide complete tutorials for Windows users. We cover Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows Phone and some of the older versions of Windows. We want to offer quality, not quantity. You might see our site updating less often than others but that's because we will do our best to offer quality articles. |
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Online Education Database Whether you're a teacher looking to incorporate new media into a classroom setting, a homeschooling family, or a parent hoping to supplement the day’s formal coursework, the following resources offer some particularly great examples of using digital technology to get kids exploring the universe. They’re fun. They’re free. And they feature a diverse selection of topics and strategies, meaning almost every user will find something of interest. |
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Hacker Highschool Security awareness has to be the continuing practice of a skill and not the continuous reminder of a threat. That's why we need high school students to actively take on real hacking attacks. Like a fire drill or even driver education, students need real practice if they want to learn how not to end up a victim. Hacker Highschool is a set of lessons and a practical means of providing cybersecurity awareness and critical Internet skills. The program contains free security and privacy awareness teaching materials and back-end support for teachers of accredited junior high, high schools, and home schooling. There are multiple workbooks available in multiple languages. These are lessons that challenge teens to be as resourceful as hackers, including safe Internet use, web privacy, using the Internet safely for research, avoiding viruses and Trojans, legalities and ethics, and more. |
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