EcoKids-Environment Archives - Page 18 of 36

Congratulations to the 2009 Digital Media and Learning Winners!

April 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

April 15, 2009 No, it was not me. Remember this post about kids coping skills and resiliency? Same song, second verse. The MacArthur Foundation and HASTAC folks will announce 2009 winners tomorrow to the world, but here’s a sneak peek of who won which ironically, I had just stumbled upon yesterday and sent to my research associate Rebeca Montealegre Boyte who was outbound to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2009 DML winners, Amy-Jussel, bootstrap, Boys and Girls Club, Digital Media and Learning Competition, Disney Nature, Dizzywood, DML, EARTH, Elf-Island, Fresh Producers, gaming for good, Good Quests, GWLN, MacArthur-Foundation, MiLLEE, mobile for good, Mobile Movement, Plant-It 2020, tree planting, UC Davis, WLW

Do Older Kids Outgrow Easter Egg Hunts and Dyeing Eggs?

April 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

April 12, 2009 Passover, Easter and religious convos aside, let’s just say EVERY generation seems to love spring fun and festivity. My parents hosted a pack of 85 year olds in an impromptu ‘just do it’ session awhile back and you’d think those ‘kids’ were 8 and 5 not eighty-five. In my house today, the Easter bunny got a bit creative with the teen scene, to hide her basket … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Bella Sara, Chris Carvalho, digital allowance, dyeing eggs, earning, Easter, Easter baskets, Easter egg hunts, Elf-Island, incentives, Kids, learning, motivators, neuro theory, Passover, positive media, praise, rewards, SmartyCard, Spring, spring cleaning, teens, youth, Zookazoo

3 Sisters Adventure Trekking: Changing the Game Through Sport

April 7, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

April 7, 2009 How can you empower women, make change happen with a quick click and take that Nike swoosh to the next level of youth and cultural change? Those of you who have ‘friended’ me on Facebook already know I’ve been championing my WLW (Women Leaders for the World) gal pal, Lucky Chhetri from Nepal who co-founded 3 Sisters Adventure Trekking, a sustainable geotourism … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 3 Sisters, 3Sisters Adventure Trekking, adventure, Amy-Jussel, challenge, climb, Daughters, Empowering women, empowerment, EWN, female pioneers, Game Changers, girls, GWLN, hike, Himalayas, journey, Lucky Chhetri, mothers, mountaineering, Nepal, Nike, outdoors, social responsibility, The Girl Effect, Three Sisters Adventure Trekking, Trekking, women in sport, Women Leaders for the world, world changing

Get Out of Your Own Life! Environmental Influence on Kids

March 30, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Mar. 30, 2009 Mea culpa for the unannounced vanishing act, but I’ve been out of town interviewing teens in a different ‘pocket’ of the greater Bay Area, exploring how environmental influences (peers, nature, geography) shift the volume and decibel level of media intake among kids and where we might learn some 'best practices' to leapfrog into a healthier place for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 12 Going on 29, be yourself, beach volleyball, branding, Buckminster Fuller, CDC, consumption, defiance, Dr. Jessica Illuzzi, Dr. Peter Scheidt, Early-Sexualization, Earth Hour, eco, EcoSentience, environmental influence, Green-Teens, health, holistic, Kids, National Children's Study, NCLI, NCS, NextNow Collaboratory, NIH, organic, Peer pressure, Pop-Culture, preteen, Santa Cruz, self-worth, teenagers, well-being, world cafe

First Day of Spring! See It Through A Child’s Eyes

March 20, 2009 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Mar. 20, 2009 It’s overcast here on the water today, which shifts my annual spring ritual into a different lens of wonder. Whenever things get too wacky in my world (and lately, that’s been hourly) I instinctively start removing clutter of the mind, media, and heart to time travel back into childhood, and just stop ALL stimulation. These days I worry that kids never fully … [Read more...]