AAUW Archives - Shaping Youth

Little Bits & Roominate- Innovate to Educate with STEM

September 4, 2012 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Update July 23, 2014 Wow. From toys to tools...LittleBits launches CloudBit to make any object 'smart'! Sept. 4, 2012 “Light it, push it, twist it, bend it, buzz it, blink it, shake it…” the promo … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: AAUW, Ayah Bdeir, Barbie Dreamhouse, Bare Conductive ink, brain plasticity, circuit boards for girls, circuits, Connected Classroom, Dollhouses, electricity fun, electronic gizmos, encouraging girls in STEM, Every child is a maker, Galaxy Goo, Gender Portrayal, girls and science, girls empowerment, girls in tech, GIT, How to drive STEM careers, Howtoons, imaginative play, Instructables, Lego Friends, Legos for the ipad generation, Little Bits, Make Your World, maker faire, MIT Media Lab, Pink Think, Project Raceway, roominate, Roominate Toy, science for girls, STEM, STEM as toy fun, Stem disconnect, STEM fem, STEM for girls, STEM in classroom, stem toys that make learning fun, teaching electronics, The Scrapkins, WIT, women in engineering, Women in Technology

Media Musts To Wrap Up “All Things Girl” Week (Part One)

December 4, 2008 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

To whittle down to a handful of ‘media musts’ for our grand finale of ‘All Things Girl’ week has been hard, so I’m going to try to shine the spotlight on some lesser … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Shaping Youth "On the Air" Tagged With: AAUW, All Made Up, all things girl week, Amy-Jussel, Animation, APA task force sexualization girls, BlogHer, Blogticker, Cooper and Emily, Daughters, digital sistas, Divine Caroline, ezines, Fem 2.0, Gamine-Expedition, GFC, girl gamers, girl scouts, Girlology, girls, Girls can do anything, Girls for a Change, girls gaming, girls inc., girls make media, Girls-Rock, Girlzone, Go Girls Only, Growing Up Girl, hardy girls, Healthy media choices, healthy women, HGHW, how are the children, I-Can, Jean Kilbourne, Latinitas, Lip magazine, Lynn Tomlinson, media-literacy, Mind on the media, Ms. Knowbody, New Moon, Offerings, Orb 28, Packaging-Girlhood, Real Girls Media, RGM, Sara-Grimes, smart girls, So Sexy So Soon, Studio B, TBIO, Teen Ink, The body project, The Motherhood, Twittermoms, Women 3.0, Women and Media project, wvew.org

Do Youth See Politicians As Puppets?

September 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

As MyDebates.org gives kids a MySpace forum for Social Studies classrooms to attempt to instill a civic sense of ‘how it all works’ with “Who won? Who lost?’ Who made the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2008 Debates, 2008 Presidential Election, AAUW, alignment, Amy-Jussel, candidates, Center for New Futures, children, citizen-journalism, civics, classroom, critical thinking, debate literacy, Debate Watch, Digital Journal, economy stupid, election, fact checking, Frank Baker, GWLN, HSBC ad, Kids, kids voting, McCain, media-literacy, MyDebates, NextNow Collaboratory, nonpartisan, Obama, partisan politics, polarity, popularity polls, presidential debate, Project Vote Smart, Rock the Vote, social studies, Sock puppets, teens, Youth Vote

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