Welcome to Taplets, Inc!
Our Mission: Taplets, Inc. is empowering the underserved to advance themselves economically by intersecting literacy, technology innovation, diversity and business education.
Today we live in a digital world. From cell phones that can surf the web to cars with GPS systems, the way we used to do things have forever changed.
This means that everyone will eventually have to have training in various areas to be more competitive including technology. Our philosophy is to create strategies of endurance by reworking the bridges that illiteracy and lack of access to modern technology education creates.
Promoting technology education is an important goal to promote social inclusion of the underserved.
Let’s take a look at how Taplets intersect these life skills to help our clients advance….
Being literate is important for individuals since reading, writing, and thinking skills remain crucial for being able to navigate through life and of course, the Internet. The Internet has become the driving force behind how people live and conduct business. Knowing how to use this powerful tool effectively is where Taplets comes in.
We refer to this as Technology education. This new age technology is also transforming the art of learning and teaching. The demand for computers and on-line skills will be driven by the degree of education in the population.
According to Robison and Crenshaw, in their large cross-national study that mass education correlated directly with high levels of societal Internet access. Mass literacy and education serves to grease the wheels of economic development which creates conditions for a greater ‘technology savy’ of society.
It is in the realm of the Internet communication has progressed the furthest, combining text, backgrounds, photos, graphics, audio, and video in a single presentation. The decreasing costs of technology devices means more people can have access to that same power.
Promoting technology education helps to diminish all sorts of socioeconomic lack that affects everyone. Not having proper technology education creates unfamiliarity and discomfort with the operation of a computer that can obviously affect people’s productivity. Technology education training leads people to become producers in our society creating products and jobs whereas others are simply passive recipients waiting in line for the jobs.
Combining Technology, Adult and Entrepreneurship education Taplets works to lift people out of poverty by providing practical applications. We believe that the solution to North Carolina’s growing unemployment is to encourage workers to become business leaders through entrepreneurship.
Within our growing organization program participants learn from real-life experience…
This has helped bring about our Taplets Gone Green recycling program. We recognize that one of the world’s fastest-growing industries is sustainable technology. The use of which creates over 20 million tons of metal each year. Through Taplets Gone Green we educate individuals of the importance of recycling. Running this program creates jobs, supports our other programs, and teaches participants job skills in green technology, refurbishing, and recycling.
Taplets Gone Green Recycling Program
A technology center will be vital to citizens statewide with far reaching results. We chose the gone green recycling program to help fund the building of our center because recycling is something we can all do. Taplets’ goal - Turning Trash into Technology TM
Taplets seeks to offer a variety of coursework in technology skills. Courses are designed by Taplets staff and volunteers, all of whom have experience in either technology, Adult education or the creation of educational materials. For additional coursework we provide access to the Goodwill Community Foundation online learning website. Taplets embarks on a goal to build the largest technology center in North Carolina where program participants will have access to more technology and business skills trainings.
Reversing the trend of growing unemployment in North Carolina will require a new business leadership. As of 2009 the unemployment rate in North Carolina was 10.6%, almost 1.5% above the national average. A large percentage of the newly jobless citizens of North Carolina were displaced by factory closings and cutbacks in long-standing companies. Between 2005 and 2007 over 8 million workers lost their jobs due to closures and downsizing. Many of these jobs are not coming back.
The changing job market is putting less educated, less skilled workers at a greater and greater disadvantage. Many of the low-skill, low-wage jobs are being eliminated or moved overseas into cheaper labor markets. According to a study for the Southern Agricultural Economics Association: “The US Department of Labor estimates that 90 percent of new high-growth, high-wage jobs will require some post secondary education, in comparison to decades past, when even a high school dropout could find a position in the manufacturing or agricultural sectors that would support a family in a middle-class lifestyle.”
The only way for these displaced workers to find a sustainable, reliable income is to create new jobs. That is the Taplets solution: we encourage workers to educate themselves in the emerging employment sectors, and to start their own business. This creates new leaders in businesses that are able to kick-start the local economy by providing new jobs and serving as an example of what is possible.
Taplets, Inc. is creating a perceptive that is unlike any other in North Carolina. Our philosophy is to teach underserved individuals by providing them with a comprehensive study that enables them to be a success.
Whether you are from North Carolina or not, you may be able to benefit from programs that we offer. SUPPORT Technology Education!
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