Game-Simulations Archives - Shaping Youth

Media Simulations Where Kids Cast Their Vote: Silly or Sage?

October 14, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

I vote sage. But you probably figured that. Sunday's Kids Pick the President Nickelodeon News special fell off my radar...even with Linda Ellerbee’s encouragement to get in the practice of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 20/20, AEI, Alex Steed, American Enterprise Institute, Cable in the Classroom, civics, curricula, debates, digital activism, digital media, digital sims, Dizzywood, dumbest generation, e-learning, e-lections, elections, Elf-Island, ENISA, Game-Simulations, government, John Stossel, kids choice, Kids Pick the President, KPP, Mark Bauerlein, McCain, Media Literacy Clearinghouse, media-literacy, Millennials Changing America, Millennials Rising, My Political World, Neil Howe, next great generation, Nick News, Nickelodeon, Obama, participatory learning, Politically Incorrect, Politics, Rock the Vote, Should some people not vote, uninformed voters, virtual world elections, Virtual-Worlds, voter registration, Voting Simulations, VW News, Youth Vote, Youth Voter Polls, Zookazoo

Virtual-to-Real World Play Patterns; Sims Used For Solutions?

July 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 8 Comments

Shaping Youth Correspondent Sara Grimes (at left) our hands-on research pro in the gaming arena and a smart as a whip academic to boot, (here's scholarly Sara at ACT Lab) has helped us ALL by … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: BJ-Fogg, Bob-McGinley, Club-Penguin, Club-THE-Penguin, Disney-VizWoz, Game-Simulations, HopeLab, Izzy-Neis, MMORPGs, Persuasion-Technology-Lab, Play-Patterns-Kids, Researching-the-researchers, Sara-M.-Grimes, Terra-Nova, TIA, Virtual-Peace-.org, Virtual-to-real-world-play-patterns, Virtual-World-News, Virtual-Worlds, Virtual-Worlds-Kids, VizWoz, VWN

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