Brain Based Biz

Brain Cake: Teen Girls Talk Tech & World Changing (Part Two)

January 29, 2009 by Amy Jussel 17 Comments

Update Oct. 22, 2015 Reminder: BrainCake shifted to CanTEENgirl.org in 2011 with heavy hitting sponsorship as a project of Carnegie Science Center. CanTeen has some fun STEM career explorations, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: All Things Girl, Brain Based Biz, BrainCake, BrainCake.org, Brains, CanTeenGirl.org, Carengie Mellon University, Carnegie Science Center, Daughters, feminine, feminism, feminist, femme, geekery, Geeky Girl, girl power, Girl Talk Radio, girls, Girls for a Change, girls in tech, GirlTech, GMSP, Green-Teens, I Am Elemental, math, MIT Media Lab, nerd girls, NIS, npr, safe cosmetics, Saturday Light Brigade, Science, Science Friday, She's geeky, sisterhood, smart girls, STEM, technology, Teens Turning Green, The Girl Effect, women, women 2.0, women engineers, world changing, Youth-Media

Eileen Clegg: Capturing Knowledge Via Visual Insight

November 6, 2008 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

When I was asked to present a workshop with all the powerhouse thought leaders and academic bigwigs this past spring at the 6th annual CCFC summit: Consuming Kids: The Sexualization of Children and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Academics, Age-of-Conversation, Alain Pouissant, Alan Kay, Betsy Burroughs, Bill Daul, Brain Based Biz, Camille Cosby Girls Program, CCFC, CCFC summit, childrens media, collaborative learning, collective knowledge, Consuming kids, Darth Vader, David Armano, Doug Engelbart, education, eight intelligences, Eileen Clegg, ideation, institutional memory banks, Judge Baker Childrens Center, Kids Online Unconference, knowledge management, Luke Skywalker, MIT Media Lab, NextNow Collaboratory, participatory learning, project for the future, Read Write Web, Robyn McMasters, Sexualization of Children and Other Commercial Calamities, shape of thought, Susan Linn, technology, thought leaders, Valerie Landau, visionaries, Visual Insight, visual language, visual learning, VizThink, Web 2.0, Writing on the wall

Kids, See How You’re Smart: Use Your Intelligence(s!)

August 27, 2008 by Amy Jussel 22 Comments

There’s nothing more heart-wrenching to me than a child self-critical of his or her brainpower, tossing off statements about ‘the smart kids” while excluding themselves from this tribe. I see this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: academia, Brain Based Biz, Brain Science, Brains, child genius, childrens intelligence, collaborative learning, Doing School, Dr. Ellen Weber, Dr. Robyn McMasters, education reform, eight intelligences, higher grades, informal-learning, lablob, Learn2Develop, lifelong learning, MITA, multiple intelligence, Multiple intelligences, NCLB, NEA, neuroscience, new horizons for learning, participatory learning, SOS, student achievement, student voices, Students, teaching strategies, teens, thinkers, thinking, two-footed questions