Search Results for: feed

Grown Up Digital: Don Tapscott’s Latest On ‘Generation Net’

June 15, 2009 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

June 15, 2009 “A revolution doesn’t happen in society when you adopt new tools, a revolution in society happens when you adopt new behaviors.” That digital premise opens up the debate for the 21st century tug-o-war of perception between what Wikinomics author Don Tapscott of Grown Up Digital calls the ‘smartest generation’ and what his nemesis, Mark Bauerlein of Emery … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Academics, Amy-Jussel, behavioral shifts, born digital, core curriculum, core knowledge, cultural literacy, Daniel Brusilovsky, Digital, digital debates, digital-natives, Don Tapscott, edge.org, Gen Y, Generation Me, Generation-Digital, Generations, Growing Up Digital, Grown Up Digital, impending demise of the University, Josh Shipp, knowledge sharing, Mark Bauerlein, Max Marmer, Millenials, Net Generation, NetGen, NextNow Collaboratory, pedagogy, Plato and a platypus, Reason.com, school, smartest generation, taking it global, TakingITGlobal, teens in tech, The Dumbest Generation, The future of work, totally wired, Wikinomics, Wikipedia, Yes we did, YPulse

G-Force: Can Guinea Pigs Help Kids Get Active? Humana Hopes So!

June 12, 2009 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

June 12, 2009 Just finished a phone interview with some of the Humana Games for Health team to see if their new free game called OPS (Operation Planet Savers) passed the sniff test of 'goodwashing' in their Disney dealings to promote the upcoming G-Force movie coming out next month as a Jerry Bruckheimer first in the 3D big screen. “OPS” is aimed at launching kids into … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 3D animation, active kids, active lifestyle, Add new tag, CDC, COPPA, diabetes, Disney, Disneynature, EARTH, EIU, Environment, field day, fitness, G-Force, gadgets, game developers, gaming for good, get kids moving, gizmos, green, ground attack, Guinea pigs, Hg4H, HopeLab, Horsepower Challenge, humana, Humana Games for Health, HumanaGames, Jerry Bruckheimer, Kids health, NCLI Act, old school, online to offline, Operation Planet Savers, OPS, outdoor play, Playnormous, races, relays, secret agent, sedentary lifestyles, serious-games, spy games, spykids, training missions, Unplug Your Kids, Verb Yellowball, video games

Youth Advice Slinger With A Story to Tell: Josh Shipp

June 8, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

June 8, 2009 One week ago today I watched Josh Shipp, a guy who self-defined as a high school class clown with hair that “looks like a chia pet” open the Ypulse Youth Marketing “Mashup” as keynote speaker. Josh Shipp is the kind of guy who charismatically creates a following like the Piped Piper, and ends up senior class president on a lark (he used the slogan “Shipp … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth Tagged With: acting out, advice, advocates, AspenSpin, Be bold, commencement address, dating tips, Dear Abbey, Dear Abby, digital generation, entertaining inspiring and empowering teens, foster care, Hey josh TV, Hey Josh!, Hey Josh.com, Josh Shipp, JumpShipp, Keynote Ypulse, kids identity, MediaSnackers podcast, motivational speakers, MTV, overcoming adversity, Paul Hawken, quit something you're bad at, Respect Rx, service learning, Shipp happens, square peg in a round hole, survivors, Tapestries-of-Hope, teens, tweens, youth, youth empowerment, youth pulse, youth voices, youth-marketing, YPulse, Ypulse-Mashup

SmartyCard: Summer Screen Time For The Quiz Whiz

June 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

June 2, 2009 Been at Ypulse all day with updates to come, so here's part two in the SmartyCard series! Message for summer study time? Save a tree, ditch the workbooks! Without fail, every year I tossed one of those hefty 'grade level' workbooks into my Costco cart for home-study hopes...And every year I shake my head as I tear out the few used pages in order to gift it to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: academic fundamentals, Academics, brainiacs, children, core curriculum, Cramster, Digital playground, Doing School, earn points, education, grade 3-6, learn and earn, learning, memorization, Mobile Prep, Points for goods, quizzes, rote learning, SmartyCard, Stressed Out Students, Summer, summer school, summer slide, Summer Study, teachers, virtual goods, Virtual-Worlds, Workbooks

HopeLab Launches “Sticky Notes” Blog To Make Their Thinking Visible

May 31, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

May 31, 2009 I know our friends at HopeLab have been active on Twitter and their own Facebook group and use SlideShare and all that, but as I’ve said many a time, microblogging and 140 character sound bites don’t quite get into the ‘deep dive’ I’m seeking when it comes to solutions-based thinking. Richard Tate has just announced HopeLab’s new “Sticky Notes” blog which will … [Read more...]