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A Social Media Helpline for Schools: I Can Helpline

May 19, 2015 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

May 19, 2015 Once upon a time, call-in centers were helpful first responders to direct levels of care, staffed with human specialists not robots, touch tone prompts, and layered redirected voicemails … [Read more...]

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Survivor, The Lunch Table Edition: SEL to Prevent Bullying

September 6, 2011 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Sept. 6, 2011 As school starts this week for the very few left that haven’t had summer short-circuited with August start dates, we’re continuing our focus on solutions-based media to ramp up Social … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ADHD, Anne Collier, Annie Fox, anti-bullying, Are You My Friend?, autism, bullying, bullying legislation, Bullying Prevention, Can I Sit With You?, CASEL, Choosing Civility, clicks and cliques, compassion, coping skills, Cyberbullying, digital drama, Electric Eggplant, empathy, first day of school, good and bad bullying programs, kids emotional health, lunch table, mean girls, Michael Buckley, middle school, Middle School Confidential, netfamilynews, Odd Girl Out, owning up, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rachel Simmons, resilience, Rosalind Wiseman, SEAL anti-bullying, SEL, SEL to stop bullying, social cruelty, Social Emotional Learning, social schoolyard, special needs, Survivor The Lunch Table Edition, Talk To Me.org, The Respect Institute, The Trevor Project, What the Buck, WhiteHouse Conference on Bullying Prevention

Rachel Simmons Chats About Mythbusting “Mean Girl” Media

August 31, 2011 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Aug. 31 2011 Transitioning back to school is tough, especially when media and marketing blitzes the ‘what could be’ fear dynamics of peer acceptance based on what you wear, how you look, and who you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Adinas-Deck, Amber Riley, Anne Collier, Back to school, bullycide, bullying, Bullying Prevention, Connect Safely, Curse of the Good Girl, cyber safety, digital abuse, digital angst, digital citizenship, digital drama, Digital Literacy, Facebook Safety Tips, Formspring, Girl Tips, healing, internet-safety, Jason Rzepka, JC Penney tee, kidlit, Kids Online, mean girls, Mean Stinks, media influences, media-literacy, My kid would never bully, Odd Girl Out, online safety, parenting, preteens, Rachel Simmons, Reality Bites Back, Rosalind Wiseman, safety and technology, sexting, social-media, texting, textual harrassment, thats not cool, trash talk, tweens, Words hurt

Spring Break Sanctuary: Ideas To Celebrate Screen Free Week

March 23, 2011 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

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 … [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

Raising Authentic Girls: Rachel Simmons’ “Be You! The Real Girl Tour”

August 31, 2010 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

August 31, 2010 “Be you!” Riiiiight. In a media environment that cynically exploits how to act, what to wear, why to buy and who to be, girls are repeatedly told to "be themselves." GirlsHealth … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, assertive girls, authenticity, automatic thoughts, Back to school, bad girls, Be You!, Be You! The Real Girl Tour, be yourself, bullying, cliques, confident girls, Curse of the Good Girl, Daughters, digital drama, Drama Queen, emotional intelligence, Facing Criticism, female aggression, females, frenemies, girl culture, Girl Tips, girl-empowerment, girls, girls health, girls inc., Girls Leadership Institute, GLI, Good Girls, Gossip Girl, inner voice, Jess Weiner, Kids, kids coping skills, mean girls, Odd Girl Out, overachievers, parenting, perfection, popularity, power moms, preteen, puberty, Queen Bees and Wannabes, Rachel Simmons, real girls, relationships, Respect Rx, Role Modeling Resiliency, Rosalind Wiseman, self-esteem, self-talk, self-worth, social schoolyard, socioemotional health, supergirls

Age of Conversation & Kids: Digital Citizens v Snark Tanks

May 26, 2010 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

May 26, 2010 When I mention social media being part of kids’ identity, parents often cringe and squinch up their faces like I’ve force fed them BeanBoozled Jelly Bellies in pickle and ‘rotten egg’ … [Read more...]

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6th Grade Boy Pulls A Susan Boyle To Trump LadyGaga

May 20, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

May 20, 2010 Riddle me this… What dynamo 6th grade boy from Edmond, Oklahoma performed LadyGaga’s Paparazzi managing to segue the local audience from ‘ho-hum, just another piano number’ talent show … [Read more...]

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Using Kid Lit To Read The Right Message About Bullying

April 18, 2010 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

April 18, 2010 Many of you know I clench when I hear the word ‘reporter’ (even though I’m one and the same, it’s different when you’re behind the keyboard) because media has powerful potential to … [Read more...]

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30 Sep

📣@MediaLiteracyEd has just released its updated Core Principles of Media Literacy Education 📣

Read this article by @megfromm to learn more about these essential principles and how they've evolved to meet the demands of our changing media landscape ➡️https://media-and-learning.eu/subject/media-literacy/namle-the-core-principles-of-media-literacy-education/

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It’s a movement.

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26 Sep

Started FREE @knightfdn AP course "How to Use ChatGPT & other Generative #AI Tools in Newsrooms" to debrief myself in time for media literacy week on the pros/cons of low/high risk automation practices & protocols #MediaLitWk #medialiteracy #NewsLiteracy

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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