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Deconstructing Thanksgiving Stereotypes: The Mediatrician Is In

November 22, 2010 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Nov. 25, 2015 Update: Couldn't resist this timely SNL Adele Thanksgiving skit slamming stereotypes...Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours! Nov. 27, 2014 Update: Favorite post to add this year for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Adele SNL Thanksgiving skit, Ask the Mediatrician, bringing history to life, Center on Media and Child Health, childrens media, classroom 2.0, CMCH, Critical-thinking-skills, Dr. Michael Rich, education, Growing Up Digital, Harvard Medical School, Harvard School of Public Health, history, immigrants, Indians, Kids, Macys parade, Media-Influence-Kids, media-literacy, Media-Rules!, multitasking, native Americans, new demographic, pilgrims, Racialicious, real Thanksgiving story, stress free kids, Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving stereotypes, The Mediatrician, Wired for Distraction, youth

Meaningful Manga: Graphic Novels and Growth

December 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Update: May 21, 2014 Our friends at Reach and Teach have added another clever manga style illustrated book called "A is for Action" which merits an update! I love the seeding of social change in a fun … [Read more...]

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The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later

November 13, 2009 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful … [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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30 Sep

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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