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Using Media With Mindfulness

April 1, 2011 by Amy Jussel 31 Comments

Update Jan. 14, 2016 Fame focus...don't bite the hook! Adding this excellent post by Ryan Holiday of the NY Observer calling out the recent Rolling Stone ratings raunch along with a slough of infamous examples of "shamelessness." It has a "spot on" tenor and a downright visceral headline: "This is the Hollowed-Out World That Outrage Culture Has Created" Yes. Yes, it … [Read more...]

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Spring Break Sanctuary: Ideas To Celebrate Screen Free Week

March 23, 2011 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

May 6, 2015 This year, "Screen Free Week" has been hardest on me for work related immediacy, as Twitter and 'livestreaming' events have made me feel like Gumby with people pinging and pushing their content under my nose to 'Please help! Look! See! Write about this worthy cause!' Even though Screen Free Week is flexibly interpreted as a customizable mindfulness exercise, I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Alone Together, Amy-Jussel, Campaign for a Commercial Free Childhood, CCFC, Digital Detox, digital drama, digital-natives, Earth Hour, family time, Get 'Em Outside, Going dark, GreenHour, healthy media consumption, human connection, information overload, Kids health, life balance, Media management, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, Middle School unplugged, multitasking, National Day of Unplugging, Nature deficit disorcer, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, Nick News, No-Child-Left-Inside, nurture, reshaping habits, Richard-Louv, Screen free challenge, Screen Free Week, Sherry Turkle, Shutting Down, social-media, spring break sanctuary, Susan Linn, technology, texting, totally wired, TV Turnoff Week, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged, week without technology, wired worlds

Recap of White House Conf on Bullying Prevention, Pt.1

March 18, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Mar. 17, 2011 Unplugging for a day is a respite, but being gone for a week amidst news of tsunami disasters and first ever media moments like the March 10 White House Conference on Bullying Prevention plunged me into perpetual ‘catch up’ mode…Toss in this week’s March 16 FTC Privacy Hearings on Do Not Track policies and datamining behavioral profiles (see key quotes from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: A Thin Line, Adinas-Deck, Anne Collier, bullying, Bullying Prevention, Connect Safely, cyber safety, digital abuse, Digital Literacy, Digital Self-Harm, Facebook Safety Tips, Formspring, internet-safety, Jason Rzepka, Kids Online, March 10, media-literacy, MsTwixt.com, My kid would never bully, online safety, parenting, preteens, Rachel Simmons, Rosalind Wiseman, safety and technology, Self-Bullying, social-media, Stop Bullying.gov, Stop Cyberbullying, togetherville, tweens, WhiteHouse Conference on Bullying Prevention

Quaking Kids and Headline News: How Much is Too Much?

March 14, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Oct. 29, 2012 Update: Nice reminder on talking tips to quell anxiety about Hurricane Sandy, from the Child Mind Institute. Mar. 14, 2011 When I was a child living in Japan through the 8.0 Tokachi-oki earthquake, I remember coming out of hiding to find my pet goldfish had vanished (found across the room under my dollbed weeks later, having sloshed out of the bowl from the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 9-11, 911, Center for Media and Childrens health, childrens fears, coddling kids, disaster relief, emotional health, Fukushima, headline news, helping students deal, Japan Earthquake, Kids and headline news, kids coping skills, Loma Prieta quake, media kids and grief, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, natural disasters kids, nightmares, quake resources, reachout, Tokachi-oki, tragedy, tsunami, virginia tech

Digital Detox: Checkin Out For A Shaping Youth Founder’s Retreat

March 4, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Mar. 6, 2014 This year the sundown to sundown National Day of Unplugging is Friday March 7, 2014 through Sat. Mar. 8. Join me? For more digital detox beyond media management and awareness raising, (which is a regular ritual for me) please check out the upcoming Screen Free Week challenge May 5-11, 2014. Definitely "not for beginners"...but always very worthwhile.More posts on … [Read more...]