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...]
A bouquet of thanks to all of the mothers out there who are sharing their knowledge and tips for making the world a better place for kids, including favorite visionaries and parenting communities... Such as? The bounty of mom bloggers at BlogHer, the EcoMom Alliance, Literary Mama, CityMama, SafeMama, Green Mom Finds, Eco-Child’s Play, Anti-Racist Parent and new … [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...]
Never fails…Every time I try to pre-slate a feature it gets bumped to the backburner because something pops up with date-driven, time-sensitive urgency that merits attention. No exception here, as this is too good to pass up, with YALSA and readergirlz using marketing and media tactics to form social community, both online and offline. Thursday, April 17, it's … [Read more...]
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