On Friday, digital education dominated the kidsphere, spanning from my own NextNow collaboratory peer, Claudia L’Amoreaux of Second Life, speaking at the Smithsonian on storytelling and innovation in the metaverse (interview here), to the Joan Ganz Cooney Center at Sesame Workshop’s first annual symposium on the impact of digital media in educating children. … [Read more...]
Shaping Youth's fellow semifinalists in the 2008 Echoing Green competition are founders Tim, Alex, and Antuan, of Envirolution who made it along with yours truly as one of the top 25% of global orgs applying. Alas, both of our orgs lost the top slot, but role modeling resilience like an "Ahnuld" movie moment, we're 'baaaaaaack' and both of our fledgling organizations have … [Read more...]
August 11, 2015 Update Check out these 31 healthy ideas for kids' snacking by Play Fuel which draw from industry marketing tactics as well!On a "how low can you go" level of problematic food industry sidewinders, today UConn Rudd Center released the 98pp report on how kids of color are particularly targeted with junk food, soda. (78% of Spanish TV targeted kids with junk, black … [Read more...]
With school winding down it may seem like an odd time to engage people interested in getting better food into schools, but Shaping Youth is big on ‘planting the seeds’ to nourish knowledge… especially since we’ll be rolling out the film, "Two Angry Moms" in the fall throughout the S.F. Bay Area! We wrote all about Amy Kalafa & Susan Rubin's … [Read more...]
Life by the scale is a sorry state of affairs regardless what age you are, but yesterday's Preteen Alliance event made it clear to me that parents and educators are battling for their kids' nutritional balance online, offline, in-school, in-game, in extracurricular sports and beyond. (not just the 'junk food marketing' and the TV influence as KFF's Food Study reveals, but the … [Read more...]
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