educators

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...]

Filed Under: Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #DigCit, #diglit, #edchat, #iCANHELP, #SM, Amy-Jussel, Anne Collier, anti-bullying, Bullybust, bullying in schools on decline, Bystanding vs upstanding, Cyberbullying, digital drama, educators, empathy, I Can Helpline, internet-safety, Kids health, media in schools, monitoring social media kids, Net Family News, online harassment, preventing suicide contagion, school climate, SEL, Social Emotional Learning, social media helpline for schools, social media in schools, social networks schools, Sprigeo, UK Safer Internet, Upstanders, zero tolerance policy

Media Vamping: Twilight Talking Points, Bite Me Brouhaha

July 9, 2010 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

July 9, 2010 “There’s an obsession among many teens today for all things vampire, and it looks like the craze is now leaving a mark…literally.” So goes the opener for CBS News Early Morning Show … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: addiction, AIDS, blood swapping, CDC Dating Violence, Center for Media and Childrens health, children, CMCH, copycat media, dating violence, Dr. Michael Rich, Eclipse, education, educators, gender equity, girls-self-worth, GLI, health, how to talk to girls, Love Bites, media-literacy, messages of new moon, New Moon, objectification, obsession, OCD-Obsessive Cullen Disorder, Parenting-Teens, possession, preteen-self-esteem, Rachel Simmons, relational aggression, romantic notions, self-destructive behavior, Stefanie Meyer, stephenie meyer, teen bites, Teen Twilight Trend, teenage girls, TwiHards, Twilight, Twilight activity plan, Twilight Fan(g)s, Twilight Moms, Twilight study guide, Understanding Teens, vampire bites, Vanessa-VanPetten

Noah! Welcome to the Digital World, Baby! (PBS Early Learning)

June 16, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

June 16, 2010 Personal post today to welcome (in over 325 languages) Shaping Youth advisory board member Dr. Robyn Silverman’s new son into the world of global digital citizenship. Born: Mr. Noah … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: achievement gap, Between the Lions, Brain Science, children, Digital, digital citizens, Dr. Robyn, Dr.-Robyn-Silverman, Early Learning, education, Education Nation, educators, Edutopia, emerging-technology, GLEF, John Boland, Kids Island, kindergarten, KQED, media-literacy, Noah Stone Silverman, parenting, PBS Education Network, PBS Kids, PBS Teachers, preschool, Raising Readers, ready at five, SEL, Sesame Street, Sid Science Kid, socio-emotional learning, SRI, STEM, SuperWhy, Symposium, teaching, tech, technology and youth, Tim Olson, zero to five

She’s The First To Rock For AfricAid! Support Girls Education Worldwide

June 10, 2010 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

June 10, 2010 It’s ironic. As schools let out for summer and kids in the US fist-pump with glee that they’re OUT, there are young girls in Africa doing the same thing when they find out they’ve … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2010, Africa, AfricAid, Ashley Shuyler, benefit concerts, changing the world, children, concerts, connecting cultures, dreams, education, educators, fundraisers, girl revolution, girls education, Girls helping girls, Girls Who Rock, Girls Who Rock New York, Girls-Rock, girls-self-worth, GirlsWhoRockNY, goals, GWLN, June 10, leadership, Lenka, life skills, Music, music makes a difference, Music-mentors, Narada Michael Walden, New York City concerts, opportunity, performances, Playing for Change, school, She's The First, STEM, Tammy Tibbetts, Tanzania, teachers, The Girl Effect, The Kisa Project, Three Cups of Tea, underprivileged, worldchanging, Worldshapers, youth, Zambia