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, a senior at in San Francisco, admits that he would be lost without his smart phone, his laptop computer, his digital camera and his iPod. He was computer literate before he started kindergarten.When he was in junior high,windows 8 activation key Back to college products, Linehan volunteered as a tutor at an elementary school in a lowincome area of San Francisco. He was shocked when he discovered that the children there were not getting computer training. Not only were the school's computers outdated,Office 2010 Product Key, they were left unused in a corner of the classroom. That's when Linehan decided to found No Child Left Unplugged, a nonprofit organization committed to bridging the digital divide through education.The mission of No Child Left Unplugged is not just to enable economically challenged schools to teach technology skills but also to inspire and give students confidence, so that they can compete and succeed. During the 200708 school year, No Child Left Unplugged began its pilot program at , a kindergartenthrougheighth grade in San Francisco's Western Addition. Student volunteers from Stuart Hall, in Pacific Heights, teach computer classes at once a week. Linehan's goal for the program goes beyond installing new computers in the schools and setting up computer labs; he wants to make sure that children learn to use the latest technology so that they can have an advantage in the increasingly informationoriented labor market."When you start young,Office 2010 Product Key, you develop a familiarity and an intuition with computers that you can't really get when you start when you're older," said Linehan,windows 8 key,Microsoft Office 2010 Key available now the respon, 18. "One of the things I've learned is that when people get older and you try to teach them technology, you end up teaching keystrokes. That doesn't work very well because every time there is an update or something changes, the keystrokes change, too."For example, when Microsoft switched to a new user interface in Office 2007, it completely revamped the way people interact with its software. For a lot of people, that caused a great deal of confusion but for those who were really comfortable with computers, who have an intuition for them, it just took a couple minutes' adjustment."A 4.0 student, Linehan was recently accepted into the at ,Office 2010 Product Key, where he plans to major in culture and politics and minor in philosophy,windows 8 activation key Brookside people usual0 r,cheap windows 8 enterprise, theology, history or classics.One of Linehan's longterm goals is to expand No Child Left Unplugged to more schools in lowincome neighborhoods."There's just something different about working with young kids and seeing how excited they get about the opportunity to learn some of the computer programs," said Linehan. "That's definitely my favorite thing about it."Each week, The Chronicle features a Bay Area resident who has won a Jefferson Award for making a difference in his or her community. The awards are administered by the for Public Service, a national foundation that honors community service. Bay Area residents profiled in The Chronicle are also featured on CBS5TV and |
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