Jan. 2013-Shaping Youth has taken a first ever, full month long blog hiatus until Feb. 1, 2013. You can follow our posts on Twitter in the interim while we unplug the blog to repower the system with fresh approaches to timely topics you care about concerning media and marketing's impact on kids. Media management and recapturing focus has been challenging for many of us in … [Read more...]
Digital Detox, Blog Hiatus, and Fresh New Focus for 2013
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Alone Together, attention economy, connected learning, digital deluge, Digital Detox, Digital Vertigo, emotional wellness, FOMO, Generation-Digital, information overload, kids-media, Media management, MLK, MLK Day of Service, multitasking, Screen Free Week, social-media, unplug
Spring Break Sanctuary: Ideas To Celebrate Screen Free Week
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