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On gadgets and gumption and a Forbes blogger’s myopia: You can’t just Google your way out of poverty. Lesson for the DPLA here?

Can you really Google your way out of poverty—no small issue when 146 million Americans are poor or at least in the “low income” category? The Digital Public Library of America isn’t saying that, but so far, the DPLA has shown more interest in upper-level academic needs, such as better-than-Google reference tools, than in libraries [...]

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Tablets for Toddlers and Families proposal: The frugality angle

Free iPads or other tablets for low-income families with young kids? Not just for reading to toddlers but also for delivery of content and services in areas ranging from childcare advice to nutrition? My further thoughts, especially on the tablets as family literacy promoters, are on the way. What kind of reading software might be [...]

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How a national digital library system could help promote early childhood learning—and academic and vocational success later on

“People need people to learn, at least when they’re young.” Toddlers at a kid-low wooden table—drinking orange juice. Four decades later, as a ex-poverty beat reporter, I still remember that scene from the Head Start program for an Ohio factory town. The juice made sense, given the long-known link between nutrition, brain development, and learning [...]

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