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Accessibility - CA IT Strategic Plan - OCIO

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Letter From the Governor (pdf). Letter From the CIO (pdf). Creation of the OCIO. Promise of the OCIO. Governor's IT Reorganization Plan. Striving to be Number 1. Information Technology in California state government. Wins for California's Information Technology. What we know about IT in California. Focusing Our Talent For Success. Mirroring the Public's Priorities. Vision of California's Future. From Goals to Action. 2009 Statewide IT Capital Plan (pdf). 2009 Statewide ITCP Concept List (xls). The main n...

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Lifestyle — Literacy 2.0

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Study: Love Your Kids by Liking Them. A survey of nearly 500 teens and their parents reveals that social networking between kids and their parents leads to stronger family ties. Or, is it the other way around? Continue reading ». A Digital Gap Between Kids and Parents. A new study finds there is a significant disconnect between what kids do online and what their parents think they do. Is this just a new flavor of an old problem? Or is something else going on? Continue reading ». Continue reading ». A ser...

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Healthcare — Literacy 2.0

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Skin Cancer App Study Sends a Warning. A new study finds that some mobile apps intended to diagnose the most life-threatening skin cancers deliver dangerously inaccurate and misleading results. Continue reading ». Digital Health Companies Feeling Robust. The world’s largest consumer electronics trade association reports dramatic growth in the number of digital health and fitness companies exhibiting at its annual trade show — a harbinger of digital health things to come. Continue reading ». A newly relea...

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admin — Literacy 2.0

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Articles posted by admin. USC Kids Tricked Out with Adobe Sweets. The USC Annenberg School struck a deal with Adobe to provide the Adobe Creative Cloud to every student and faculty member free of charge. An enlightened strategy? Or another case of big vendor domination? Continue reading ». LA Schools Face an iPad Predicament. Continue reading ». Petitioning for a Digital Literacy Policy. Continue reading ». LA Schools Put Tablets on the Table. Continue reading ». Study: Love Your Kids by Liking Them.

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Study: Love Your Kids by Liking Them

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Study: Love Your Kids by Liking Them. Contrary to the notion that teens would prefer their parents to butt out of their social media life, a new study finds that “friending” and other social media interactions between kids and parents creates stronger filial bonds. The study by Brigham Young University. Also finds that teens who maintain an online social relationship with their parents tend to exhibit more socially positive behaviors, such as kindness, generosity and lower levels of aggression. 8220;It l...

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Internet Summer of Safety Gets $1M

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Internet Summer of Safety Gets $1M. New Internet safety campaign. In conjunction with Common Sense Media. Seeks to educate kids, parents and teachers about Internet safety. Dubbed the Internet Safety Summer, the program includes a website. And free access to the Common Sense Media Digital Passport app. TWC is reportedly spending $1 million to support the website, the app and a series of public service announcements. Helping kids deal with online safety is a good thing. The more programs the better. No Th...

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Information Illiteracy: A National Pandemic

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Information Illiteracy: A National Pandemic. With twin Master’s degrees in educational leadership and library science, as well as expertise in educational technology, Glen Warren straddles the worlds of the classroom and the library as well as the worlds of technology and information. That makes him, by his own admission, an odd bird in the growing movement to integrate digital literacy into education and society. Spoke with Glen on the eve of the annual CUE conference about the current state of digital ...

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Cyber Safety: A Pragmatic Prescription

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Cyber Safety: A Pragmatic Prescription. Gwenn Schurgin O’Keeffe, M.D., F.A.A.P. Is one of a handful of celebrity pediatricians who makes the rounds on television, radio, conferences and online offering advice to fellow physicians and parents alike. She appears regularly on programs such as CNN’s. Issues with Jane Velez-Mitchell. In addition to being adept with a sound bite, O’Keeffe is known for doling out advice that is founded on common sense as well as medical knowledge. The report presents a research...

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Education Tech: It’s a Whole New Game

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Education Tech: It’s a Whole New Game. In 2007, the year the iPhone was introduced, the venerable children’s TV programmer Children’s Television Workshop (now named Sesame Workshop. Spun off a nonprofit research and production institute intended to do for digital media what. The mission of the Joan Ganz Cooney Center. Previously, Levine oversaw the Carnegie Corporation of New York’s work in early childhood development, educational media and primary grades reform. He was a senior advisor to the ...Can the...

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CBC California Broadband Cooperative | Digital 395 Middle Mile Project

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The Digital 395 Middle Mile Project. A 583-mile fiber network that mainly follows the U.S. Route 395 highway. Much of the region between Carson City, Nevada and Barstow, California, has limited, insufficient broadband middle mile capabilities, dependent on decades-old telephone infrastructure, leaving wide swaths of the Eastern Sierra region of California and Nevada unserved. The Digital 395 Middle Mile also proposes to:. Serve up to 237 committed community anchor institutions. For isolated populations o...