Update 2013: National Parks Traveler reports NPS is considering adding Wi-Fi. This is a classic point/counter-point debate in terms of perpetuating the disconnect with nature or 'bridging' worlds w/safety-GPS techno tethers as modern day carabiners. Weigh in w/your thoughts? Here's more from Children and Nature Network. (Original Post 2006/Tweens and "Outdoor Ed") … [Read more...]
We're barely back to school, it’s not remotely close to Halloween, yet the mass muck of Christmas consumerism is filling the aisles, as marketers turn up the volume on pester power to target parents relentlessly. Wal-Mart is leading the techno-begging frenzy with a whimsically cheerful interactive toyland site of smarmy back-talking elves with attitude. These … [Read more...]
Seems the 15 minutes of fame for this New Jersey fellow expired last season when every kid on the planet seemed to be fist-pumping to the original Numa Numa sing-along-n-boogie Romanian craze...but he’s baaaack, with Numa Numa2 and he’s gone to the big leagues. At this point he may even have an agent & handlers... Every tween … [Read more...]
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