Digipreneurship University to Offer Upgrades on Mobile Wifi Devices

Mobile WiFi Made Easy

Skip the search for public WiFi with a mobile hotspot that gives you Internet access when you need it. The NETGEAR Fuse is slim and sleek, making it easy to take with you in your backpack, purse, or pocket. But more importantly, its user-friendly design makes it easy for everyone to use – just power on and connect.

Harness the Power of LTE

Harnessing the power of the Sprint’s Spark LTE network, the NETGEAR Fuse Mobile Hotspot allows you to enjoy LTE connectivity on any WiFi enabled device with the touch of a button. It’s small enough to fit in the palm of your hand, and it’s powerful enough to connect up to 10 WiFi devices and last up to 10 hours on a single charge. With advanced built-in security options, you have the full control over who shares your connection so that your data can stay protected no matter where you go.

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The Promise: My Brother’s Keeper

The Executives’ Alliance to Expand Opportunities for Boys and Men of Color, launched in April 2013, is a growing network of national, regional, and community foundations. Our 30 member institutions engage in a broad array of initiatives and activities to support boys and men of color, including the recently announced White House public-private partnership My Brother’s Keeper. We applaud the nine alliance members and other foundations for joining the Obama administration in this important initiative.

The Executives’ Alliance is committed to:

  • Using our collective and individual voices to affirm the value and contributions of boys and men of color as indispensable to our nation’s success
  • Focusing the attention of policy makers to address and dismantle structural barriers to opportunity for boys and men of color; and
  • Increasing, leveraging and coordinating investments such that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

We are open to all philanthropic organizations that want to invest in America’s future by giving their support toward expanding opportunity for boys and men of color. We offer a venue for philanthropic organizations with a shared focus to connect with each other.

To learn more about the Executives’ Alliance, visit www.boysandmenofcolor.org/executivesalliance, or contact Jordan Thierry at jthierry@frontlinesol.com. Follow us on twitter at: @bmocexecallianc.

To learn more about philanthropy’s partnership with the Obama Administration through My Brother’s Keeper, go to: www.whitehouse.gov/my-brothers-keeper.

Florida’s Digital Classroom Symposium in Tampa, FL

Join education tech developer and Digipreneur, Jermyn Shannon El at the Museum of Science and Industry, located at 4801 E Fowler Ave., Tampa, Florida 33617, for Florida’s Digital Classroom Symposium.

The State of Florida, local school districts, universities, not-for-profit education foundations, along with business and technology companies are all interested in this discussion; we have approximately 350 registrants.  The panelists and moderators are equally enthused, and we expect a productive and fruitful exchange of ideas.

Tomorrow’s format allows for five panels, each with a 45 minute duration.  During the initial 25 minutes, panelists will share their thoughts and observations. The remaining 20 minutes will be for questions and answers.  Audience members will have two options for submitting questions.  One option will be via Twitter, with a dedicated hashtag for each panel and there will also be microphones circulating in the audience.

Event Objectives:

Primary:

  • Advance student achievement by merging educational practices with digital innovation. Teaching professionals discuss with hi-tech specialists, adapting technology for enhanced learning.

Secondary:

  • That school systems uncover the effective approaches for integrating technology.
  • That technology providers collaborate toward enhancing student learning in doing so also grow their business.

 

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Senator John Legg proudly announces Florida’s Digital Classroom Initiative Symposium.  This event will be hosted at Tampa’s Museum of Science and Industry (MOSI) on Thursday, November 13, 2014, from 8:00 AM to 1:00 PM.  Education professionals and hi-tech specialists will discuss adapting technology for enhanced learning and advancing student achievement.

Select panels will cover an array of topics, addressing the goals, challenges and needs of educators, students and employers.  The State of Florida, local school districts, universities, not-for-profit education foundations, along with business and technology companies, will share their insights, with the following leaders participating:

  • Jason Allison, Chief Information Officer & Executive Director, Florida Agency for State Technology
  • Tina Barrios, Assistant Superintendent of Information Systems & Technology, Polk County Schools
  • Anna Brown, Chief Information & Technology Officer, Hillsborough County Schools
  • Kurt Browning, Superintendent, Pasco County Schools
  • Neil Campbell, Policy Director for Personalized & Blended Learning, Foundation for Excellence in Education
  • Joseph Clark, Vice President, MGT of America
  • Craig Cowden, Chief Network Officer & Senior Vice President of Enterprise Solutions, Bright House Networks
  • Michael Eugene, Chief Operations Officer, Orange County Schools
  • President Andy Gardiner, President of the Florida Senate
  • Michael Grego, Superintendent, Pinellas County Schools
  • Don Hall, Deputy Superintendent of Operations, Manatee County Schools
  • Senator John Legg, Florida Senate, District 17
  • Juhan Mixon, Executive Director, Florida Association of School Administrators
  • Tom Moffses, Superintendent, Hamilton County Schools
  • Senator Bill Montford, Florida Senate, District 3
  • Alexis Muellner, Editor, Tampa Bay Business Journal
  • Ron Nieto, Deputy Commissioner of Innovation, Florida Department of Education
  • Thomas O’Neal, Associate Vice President of Research & Commercialization / Executive Director of the Business Incubation Program, UCF”
  • Trish Parrish, President, Florida Association of Colleges for Teacher Education
  • Don Pemberton, Director, UF Lastinger Center for Learning
  • Chase Stockon, Chairman, Tampa Bay Technology Forum
  • James Welsh, Assistant Director, USF Florida Center for Instructional Technology
  • Cameron Wilson, Chief Operations Officer & Vice President of Government Affairs, Code.org

The Florida Legislature directed the Florida Department of Education to develop and implement a 5-year strategic plan for establishing digital classrooms (2014 – HB 5101).  This $40 million initial plan is to support individual school districts with their respective efforts of integrating technology in classrooms.  With the goal of improvement in student performance, it seeks to merge educational practices with digital innovation.

Anyone wishing to attend this event may register at:  http://tinyurl.com/EdTechFL.

Global Entrepreneur Hackathon for Education

This fall, 70 young adults will congregate in Croatia for 10×10, a hackathon to tackle challenges facing education on a global level.

Innovative technology is poised to revolutionize the way people learn on a global level. With countries from around the world being represented on teams, the diversity in cultures and experience will contribute to new perspectives on such a universal subject as education.

10×10 is open to developers, designers, and non-technical people who want the chance to create original solutions to improve education for millions worldwide. Selected participants will be provided with travel to Croatia as well as accommodations while competing in the hackathon.

The hackathon will be held directly before the GEC2, a gathering where policymakers and entrepreneurs will discuss the Entrepreneurial Mindset. The competition will be a hands-on experience for young people to demonstrate ways in which the next generation of entrepreneurs can make a difference in a global context.

The topics teams may explore are endless, but we are proposing a few critical challenges to education worldwide to start team brainstorms. The challenges include:

  • Access to education;
  • Quality of education;
  • Funding of education;
  • Entrepreneurial education;
  • Access to mentors; and
  • Access to education across borders.

Enroll Today will kick off with short talks from experts in the field highlighting major obstacles facing education. On-site mentors to help with business ideas and developer support will be provided to assist teams as they collaborate to create innovative products.

Learn more about 10×10 and apply to join us in Croatia if you have what it takes to hack education for the greater good!

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Have You Flipped Your Classroom?

Have You Flipped Your Classroom?

Digipreneurship specialists are dedicated to the blended learning model because we realize the huge amount of confusion and misinformation surrounding school safety and attendance during the Covid crisis.  There is no doubt virtual learning is the “go-to” method of education and will likely remain the best viable instructional methodology. 

This article was originally published by…TheDailyRiff.com


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Thus the purpose of this article is to list out what we believe it is and what we believe online education is, as opposed to what it is not.

The Flipped Classroom is NOT:

  • A synonym for online videos. When most people hear about the flipped class all they think about are the videos.  It is the interaction and the meaningful learning activities that occur during the face-to-face time that is most important.
  • About replacing teachers with videos.
  • An online course.
  • Students working without structure.
  • Students spending the entire class staring at a computer screen.
  • Students working in isolation.

The Flipped Classroom IS:

  • A means to INCREASE interaction and personalized contact time between students and teachers.
  • An environment where students take responsibility for their own learning.
  • A classroom where the teacher is not the “sage on the stage”, but the “guide on the side”.
  • blending of direct instruction with constructivist learning.
  • A classroom where students who are absent due to illness or extra-curricular activities such as athletics or field-trips, don’t get left behind.
  • A class where content is permanently archived for review or remediation.
  • A class where all students are engaged in their learning.
  • A place where all students can get a personalized education.


In the upcoming virtual learning series, we will discuss more in-depth how to go about flipping the class and the stages involved in doing so successfully.

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Prince and Essence Partner for Innovation Fund

Prince and Essence Partner for Innovation Fund

The Rebuild The Dream Innovation Fund is partnering with Essence and Prince to launch our newest initiative, #YesWeCode, at the 20th Annual Essence Festival on July 4-7 in New Orleans.  On Tuesday, Dec. 3rd, Essence Magazine released the following press release, announcing this partnership.

#YesWeCode asks: What if you were given the opportunity to flip the current American status quo / economic landscape upside down? What if youth from the east side of Detroit, the southside of

#YesWeCode is a response to the negative image of low-opportunity youth in America. The unnerving death of Trayvon Martin has given us an opportunity to create a bold, game-changing strategy.

Chicago, the fourth quarter of New Orleans, etc. came together in collaboration to build amazing game-changing apps, support one another in partnership, mentorship and entrepreneurship and to begin elevating the condition of low-opportunity neighborhoods across the country? What if we mobilized the nation around the #YesWeCode initiative to train at least 100,000 youth from low-opportunity neighborhoods to become high-level computer programmers?

#YesWeCode is a response to the negative image of low-opportunity youth in America. The unnerving death of Trayvon Martin has given us an opportunity to create a bold, game-changing strategy.

“I always remember how Trayvon Martin’s hoodie was seen as a justification for his murder,” says Van Jones, the founder of The Rebuild the Dream Innovation Fund and #YesWeCode.  “But billionaire Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg wears hoodies — and nobody shoots at him. So let’s flip the script: let’s give our hoodie-wearing youth the same tools, training and technology that the kids taking over Silicon Valley have. I hope #YesWeCode creates 100,000 ‘Mark Zuckerberg’s’ — and that a whole lot of them look just like Trayvon Martin.”

So, what if youth of color, girls, and low-income youth were given the space and motivation to “geek-out” during a hack-a-thon, a robotics competition or a pitch mixer? Is that the secret sauce to increasing their economic employability and their neighborhood’s social prosperity? No, not entirely. You are. And you’re equipped with all the tools they’ll need – energy, excitement, wisdom, cultural values and tradition, coding knowledge, business and investment “know-how”, passion for economic justice, a commitment to thriving communities and to diversifying technology innovation.

Join the movement.  Become a part of #YesWeCode.

3 Reasons Why You Should Go to Hackathons

3 Reasons Why You Should Go to Hackathons

Here are a three main reasons why women should attend hackathons:

It’s the Best Way to Learn

Hackathons have provided a really powerful vehicle for getting new people into the tech world. They provide the perfect opportunity to dive in and learn a ton. It doesn’t matter how basic or advanced your skills are, hackathon will be a great place to learn something new.

Become Part of the Community

There’s no better place to get more involved with the tech community than at hackathons. You will make friends, have fun and possibly even find co-founders for your startup. So whether you are an experienced hacker, CS major or just taking a peek at the tech world, you should start with attending your first hackathon.

Create a Ripple Effect

We have gotten really good at convincing young males to attend hackathons. Leaders in the male-dominated hackathon community have convinced their male friends to join. After someone goes to their first good hackathon, that person immediately begins asking when the next hackathon is, and the next thing you know, they have become evangelists themselves, inviting their friends.

We can achieve this same outcome with women. Already, leaders like Tess Rinearson, Katie Siegel, Amy Chen, and Taylor Barnett are taking up the mantle in their own communities.

If you’re a female or male leader in the tech community, reach out to your female friends and invite them to the next hackathon you’re going to.

If you’re reading this post and interested in tech, sign up for the next hackathon near you and make sure to bring at least one other female friend with you. Having her there would make it less intimidating if you’re going for the first time and would make a double impact.

Here are a few places to start looking for hackathons and getting involved with the community:

  • Meetup groups
  • Student-focused hackathons. They have special tickets at the Michigan Hackathon for women and are organizing a free bus from any city in the US that has the most women sign up: bit.ly/hackathonseason2
  • Railsbridge – a non-profit focused on helping women learn to code
  • Hacker League has a list of upcoming hackathons worldwide

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America’s Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow

America’s Entrepreneurs of Tomorrow

written by Mike Green, @Futurists in Tech

They are competitive, creative, innovative, resilient and courageous. If those sound like core characteristics of successful entrepreneurs, they are, and we need to build on them.

It’s no secret that America’s black boys are considered the most difficult to educate, recalcitrant, truant, lost, confused, angry and dangerous demographic in the public-education system. The “school-to-prison pipeline” is an apt description for the millions of black male teenagers who must navigate the tumultuous channels of failed high poverty schools and communities without a committed, knowledgeable adult male to guide them through the daily dilemmas and risk assessments that far too often force them to choose between life and death. This horrific paradigm persists primarily because educators, policymakers, investors and CEOs have also failed at math and risk assessment.

One of the solutions to America’s current crisis of flailing economics in its metro regions and flagging global economic competitiveness lies in the potential of one of the nation’s most promising assets: black boys. America has seen consistent resiliency and success from black males in each generation, despite centuries of degradation and deliberate institutional hostility. In today’s knowledge-based, tech-driven, globally competitive innovation economy, the key to discovering a solution to America’s economic woes requires a different lens through which leaders view investing in black boys. That lens is math.

The nation’s highest growth in entrepreneurship from 2002 to 2007 was among black Americans: 60 percent, more than three times the national average during the same period, resulting in the creation of 1.9 million black-owned businesses.

Saving America’s black boys, by investing in their innovative competitive intelligence through policies of inclusive competitiveness, would yield a future bumper crop of American innovators prepared to compete in a globally competitive, tech-based workforce and to become high-growth, job-creating entrepreneurs. Investing in saving America’s most disconnected demographic is an investment in saving America.

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What is Inclusive Competitiveness?

New job creators also play an outsized role in the development of innovative new products and services that can revolutionize industries and transform entire sectors of our economy. Research shows that innovation has been responsible for approximately two-thirds of our country’s economic growth since World War II.

Empowering these businesses, and embracing an inclusive view of entrepreneurship, is essential to our long-term economic growth and global competitiveness. We need more people across the country to start the types of businesses that make our economy more competitive and our industries more innovative. That’s why we’re making strategic investments that focus on increasing access to capital for high-growth businesses, strengthening entrepreneurial skills training and building regional entrepreneurial ecosystems (through clusters and growth accelerators).

We must also make the necessary investments in STEM fields so that we can have a workforce with the skills and expertise to compete and win in an increasingly competitive global economy.

By making these investments, we will build on our nation’s economic recovery, inject new energy and momentum into our economy, bolster new business starts and leverage the greatest driver of innovation and job creation in the world—the American entrepreneur.  

 — an excerpt from Karen Mills, Forbes

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America21 defines The Innovation Economy as the period in the late 20th and early 21st centuries marked by radical socioeconomic changes brought about by the following:

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Inclusive Competitiveness is girded by three pillars:
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    • Education, specifically STEM (science, technology, engineering, math)
    • Entrepreneurship, especially high-growth
    • Access to Capital, capital formation and investment (including equity, debt and credit)

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