Media Literacy – Page 27

Rudolph: A Parable On Bullying, Peer Pressure & Soaring High

December 17, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Dec. 17, 2010 Media madness has hit some new toxic tipping points lately, from sexualized cues for tweens to slink around like a ho-ho-ho (great awareness-raising via this new PTC study) to teen pot use rising after years of decline, and of course the influence of Miley's latest messes surging sales of ‘salvia’ ... Sooooo today I’m (re)running Lessons From Rudolph about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Annie Fox, anti-bullying, bullying, cerebral palsy, confidence, disabilities, frenemies, Glenda Watson Hyatt, I'll Do It Myself, Kidlutions, kids media influence, Lessons from Rudolph, Middle School Confidential, Miley bong hit, Miley Cyrus, Parents Television Council, Peer pressure, PTC, Race to Nowhere, Red Nosed reindeer, Rudolph, Salvia surge, Teen pot use rising, The Me Movement, Wendy Young

Social Media Rally For Girls Sports Today

December 8, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Dec. 8, 2010 Pop-Quiz from our partner org, San Mateo Starlings Volleyball, serving low-income and minority girls age 12-18: Did you know that girls who participate in sports are: ..."92% less likely to use drugs, 80% less likely to have an unwanted pregnancy, far more likely to graduate from high school and attend college, and far less likely to suffer from childhood … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Ashoka, Ashoka's Changemakers, girls self esteem, girls sports, Girls-Are-Champions, girls-self-worth, Liz Mayta, Nike GameChangers, NWLC, organized sports, Positive Coaching Alliance, positive media, Rally4Girls, San Mateo Starlings, Sports Pay Dividends, Starlings-Volleyball USA, Title IX, volleyball, What did you win by playing?, women sports, Women Talk Sports network

Shaping Youth: Freecycling Kids Books Throughout December

December 4, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Dec. 4, 2010 Black Friday? Cyber Monday? Bah. Other than maybe beach towel joke gifts (silly kilt wraps, hula skirts for our wakeboarding tribe) they didn’t get much outta me this round, as I continue to purge more than splurge. So to continue this “simplify life” theme to FREECYCLE and gift myself some joy this season, I’m passing along a bounty of kids books to you, FREE … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: bargain hunting, Black Friday, book drops, CCFC Book Fairs, children's books, collective IQ, crowdsourcing, Cyber Monday, donate books, eco, eco moms, fiction, free, freebies, freecycle, freecycling, friends of the library, frugal finds, future of books, girls are not chicks, Girls Horse Club, green, horse books, kids books, library, literacy, meaningful gifts, media-literacy, no impact, old school meets new school, paperbacks, peace and social justice, prosocial books, reach and teach, readergirlz, reading, Reading is Fundamental, recycle, riding freedom, RIF, Scholastic, Send Felicity, Story Bird, Storybird, storytelling, Truce Teachers, Truce Toy Action Guide, YA, YALSA, young adult fiction

Celebrities Use Digital Death To BuyLife.org- World Aids Day

December 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 4 Comments

Dec 1, 2010 World Aids Day The "keep a child alive" logo had me at hello. The premise "I've sacrificed my digital life to help give real life to millions of people affected by HIV/AIDS in Africa and India" rings a little hollow, even for Hollywood. Granted, the idea is clever, creative (and a lil' bit creepy) capitalizing on the celebrity zeitgeist (in coffins, with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 7000 people infected, @TapestriesMovie, ADIS awareness, Africa, AIDS, Alicia Keys, Betty Makoni, BuyLife.org, celebrities, Celebs Gone Good, children with AIDS, Digital Death, fundraisers, Get Yourself Tested, Girl Child Network, global health, GYT, HIV, India, Justin Timberlake, Keep a Child Alive, Lady Gaga, Michealene Cristini Risley, Prevention Revolution, sex ed, Sex education, sexual health, starstruck, STD, Tapestries-of-Hope, TOH, UN Aids, WAD, World Aids Day, World Health Organization, Zimbabwe

Deconstructing Thanksgiving Stereotypes: The Mediatrician Is In

November 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Nov. 25, 2015 Update: Couldn't resist this timely SNL Adele Thanksgiving skit slamming stereotypes...Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Nov. 27, 2014 Update: Favorite post to add this year for 2014 comes from Marti Weston's Media! Tech! Parenting! site on gratitude and digital life. Perfect way to continue our November thankfulness posts of positive picks in … [Read more...]