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There are more public libraries than Starbucks (more than 17,000) in the United States. These libraries serve as community hubs that support and empower local community members’ social, political, and personal well-being. #community #engagement #support #wellbeing #cities #cityplanning #architecture #urbanism #design Gensler Latinoamérica

Hi! 👋🏽😄 My name is Tony, and today I want to talk to you about an amazing film I watched called Butterfly In The Sky, starring LeVar Burton. The impact Reading Rainbow had on my generation brought a tear to my eye. As I watched the film, I felt chills hearing about the struggles educators faced trying to bring free educational content to the masses. Eerily, it parallels what we’re seeing today. Back in the late 80’s and 90’s, congress wanted to shutdown PBS, removing iconic children’s programming like Sesame Street and Reading Rainbow. Today, social media is under similar scrutiny and various platforms are under investigation for negatively impacting young people’s lives. Times may look different, but there are similar forces at play. I walked out of the film with a few pages of notes, ideas, and questions to answer. The only reason I didn’t walk out with more was because writing complete sentences in dark a theater was much harder than I realized ☝🏽😅 In my digital community work, I aim to create spaces that help people learn and grow as PEOPLE, not just customers. Creating opportunities for people to share their unique stories safely. Creating settings where differences are appreciated, celebrated, and valued. Online spaces where users are transformed into neighbors. This film reminded me of how important intentionality, professionalism, and curiosity are to working in public education. It’s all about bringing humanity to digital spaces. If you haven’t seen it yet, I highly recommend it! 🦋🌈📖

The skills that are necessary to build the ideal Community are far greater than just being able to cut wood and build something. Creating an ideal community? Start with operational excellence and communication first! There are so many parts of the freedom nation that required tons of work that no one will actually see beyond its output. The technical elements that allow us to coordinate and plan and design the ideal Community have taken almost 20 years to build. I have always thought that God was giving me a clear way to develop the community that I deeply desire to build. I started my career as a software developer and graphic designer at 17. Can I tell you how much that is played a role in trying to build a Freedom Nation. We are moving into an absolutely automated future. If you haven't noticed the future where computers software and Technology play a major role in everything we do has come is here and we are either deeply entrenched or deeply out of date. If we even hope to be able to accomplish something with the magnitude of becoming city builders, a feat that no black company has achieved the date, then we will have to master the multitude of disciplines from being able to put grates in the streets and pipes as well as to planning every single inch and monitoring every single action. What is more important than everything else is that we have to find a way to effectively communicate all of the various things that are going on inside of our ideal Community to its members at all times. That requires a technically Advanced set of individuals that want to be the citizens and residents of this community.

Nearly 1 in 5 households in Allegheny County lack internet access & 10% of Pittsburgh households don’t own a computer, according to Technical.ly. Here are some local organizations to help financially challenged residents if they need tech support or internet connection: Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh Literacy Pittsburgh Partner4Work Pittsburgh United Way of Southwestern Pennsylvania atiya irvin-mitchell #internet #InternetAccess #accessibility #TechSupport #broadband #BroadbandForAll

An interesting and recommendable approach.

https://lnkd.in/eiWxk89c Research reveals how playful-aggressive elements contribute to child development A child's play may seem simple, but it represents one of their main forms of expressiveness. Through games and games, she interacts with the physical and social environment, builds and internalizes knowledge and produces culture. And it also creates and affirms your peculiar way of being in the world. “When they play, children construct, through their peer culture, different ways of playing and playing, which are not always understood by an external observer, but which give them cohesion and meaning. Through play and play, children create bridges between fantasy and reality, interact and constitute themselves socially”, explains researcher and Physical Education teacher Raquel Firmino Magalhães Barbosa. Upon entering her master's degree, Raquel began a study to understand children's imagination under the influences of television media in contemporary leisure culture. At that time, the research revealed that the component of playfulness, fighting and aggression were present in the majority of games observed and recorded with children. They appeared spontaneously and were intensely associated with cartoons. In her doctorate, completed at Ufes in 2018, the professor deepened these studies and built her thesis on what she defined as playful hybridism. When playing, children combine fantasies, languages and behaviors. Regardless of the type of play, a common characteristic is the connection between the real world and the fantasy world. Observing these aspects, the researcher considered the hybridity of the game. She says that “Playful hybridity is understood by the intertwining of actions and symbolic aspects that can arise from the combination of different behaviors during the game. In this study, what was evident in children's games was the articulation between three headings: playfulness, aggressiveness and nonsense”. Real world and fantasy come together through play. https://lnkd.in/eiWxk89c

"As champions of lifelong learning, libraries are a place to quench curiosity, access technology, and explore new ideas, hobbies, and careers. Increasingly, libraries also offer patrons a welcoming space to meet their neighbors to discuss and resolve important issues."   We made it to the top! ⬆️ VPL's Inspiration Lab, made possible by community support, is the first example of libraries making this space, offering access to technology, and then watching community connection and creativity unfold.   https://lnkd.in/gE6BAT5M

15-year-old starts #community service program to teach senior #residents how to use basic #technology #friends #family #CTO #CFO #SMB #Entrepreneur #Neighbor #teens #parents #wife #husband #mom #dad #Employers #technews #Cryptonews #Blockchain #fourthindustrialrevolution

You would think public libraries are not getting much use these days, especially from young people, however Gen Z and millennials have been increasingly drawn to them. Using them as using them as social spaces and for their aesthetic. Despite not all identifying as readers, over half of the people people surveyed in 2022 visited physical libraries within the past year. Much of this can be attributed to TikTok and #booktok featuring library-related content and also lead to an increase in book sales. Despite funding cuts and legislative threats, public libraries appear to remain cherished spaces for the younger generation seeking authenticity and community. “Libraries have never been just about books. These are community hubs, places to connect and discover. For an extremely online generation that’s nearly synonymous with the so-called ‘loneliness epidemic’, libraries are increasingly social spaces, too.” —Betsy Reed, The Guardian US #library #booktok #reading #genz https://lnkd.in/gttncfv4?

Interesting read.