collaborative learning Archives - Shaping Youth

The Science of Character: Hosted by Shaping Youth and Reach and Teach

March 17, 2014 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Mar. 20, 2014 Premiering worldwide! Attention students of life...“There are 7.1 billion people on the planet, and each one of us has a unique character,” opens The Science of Character filmmaker and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #CharacterDay, Amy-Jussel, Character Day, character strengths, cloud filmmaking, cloud films, cloudsourcing, collaborative learning, collective knowledge, connected, Craig Wiesner, crowdsourcing, Declaration of InterDependence, Derrick Kikuchi, Digital Detox, digital filmmaking, digital innovation, Doug Engelbart, firing up the global brain, humanity, humanity rising, Let it Ripple, March 20, Mobile Films for Global Change, NAMLE, NextNow, participatory learning, reach and teach, SEL, Social Emotional Learning, student of life, Students, Sundance, Sustainability, the film, The Future Starts Here, The Mediatrician, The Science of Character, Tiffany Shlain

CoLABoratory of Creativity: Program for the Future 2010

March 1, 2010 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

March 1, 2010 Once upon a time, I spent 25+ years as a creative director at virtual agency: Copy/Concepts. Collaboration came very naturally to me, as we all divvied up our specialty areas and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Claudia L'Amoreaux, Claudia Welss, Co-evolution, CoLABoratory, Collaboration 2010, collaborative learning, collective intelligence, collective knowledge, Digital, Doug Engelbart, Douglas C. Engelbart, eco, education, Eileen Clegg, firing up the global brain, Future Talk, futurists, Google wave, Hiroshi Ishii, Humanists, humanity, humanity ascending, IFTF, innovation, IO brush, Jim Schuyler, learning, learnlets, Mei Lin Fung, MIT Media Lab, NextNow Collaboratory, PFTF, Ph.D., PhD jokes, problem solving, Program for the Future, Sam Hahn, save the planet, sims, simulation, solutions, Tech Museum, technology, The Tech, Valerie Landau, Visual Insight, visualization tools, World resources, WRSC

Storybird Kids Online Book Community Hatches Creative Fledglings

September 10, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Update 11-19-2014: Storybird Studio (Q&A here) launches for educators today, as a "suite of easy-to-use creative, administrative, and social tools for writing, reading, and storytelling" … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 21st century learning, Animoto, artists, Blurb, character development, child authors, children, collaboration, collaborative learning, community, connecting people through stories, creative, creativity, custom books, Digital, digital play, Dream Village, e-books, Elf-Island, games, GoodQuests, illustrations, Kids, kids online community, knowledge sharing, language arts, learning, library, new media, online communities, participatory learning, play, publishing, self-publishing, SLJ, stories, story starters, Storybird, Storybirds, Storyboard, storyline, student stories, take turns, teens, visual arts, writers, YALSA

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 21 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

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