Doug Engelbart

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 digital innovation advocate Tiffany Shlain, renowned for her work unraveling the giant hairball of media messaging and technological shifts impacting humanity on a global scale. … [Read more...]

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Vanished Edu-Game: 11 Yr Old Rylan Reports “Back from the Future”

June 19, 2011 by Amy Jussel 10 Comments

June 20, 2011 Mission? Make learning fun. Investigators? Preteens. GameQuest? STEM studies, deeply rooted in gaming fun. I’ve been saving this post about MIT MediaLab/Education Arcade's Vanished game for today’s opening of the Games For Change festival in NYC, since their keynote speaker Al Gore has been taking questions @G4C on Twitter about best practices to engage … [Read more...]

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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’ flavor. Some parents perceive social media to be one behemoth danger zone of Facebook/Formspring/Game Chat/Text-fest "words that wound"---injuring kids like drive-by hit-n-run … [Read more...]

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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 functioned as one global brain with seamlessness and ease. Now as a nonprofit? Not so much. The nonprofit world is new to me, with all kinds of new fiefdoms to learn, toes to step on … [Read more...]

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Shaping Youth Sponsors She’s Geeky: Where WIT & Wisdom Flourish

January 25, 2010 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Update Jan. 9, 2017 Coming up...Jan. 28, 2017 my favorite "unconference" convenes called "She's Geeky" which I've written about since its inception, with posts from 2007 and for years thereafter in a 2009 3-part STEM series and 2010 sponsorship and beyond...I highly encourage any and all to attend and experience the magic of no holds barred straight shooting, … [Read more...]

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