Feb. 14, 2017 Valentine's Day Update: More ways to encourage reading, with therapy dogs (via MindshiftKQED Learning) and a few "Kidlit" picks for Valentine's Day that streamed across my desk, here and here...Off to my new tutoring gig at Reading Partners.org! Jan. 16, 2017 MLK Weekend: Book Three of March is out with Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell and John Lewis' much needed … [Read more...]
Selling Reluctant Readers: 10 Marketing Tactics To Amp Up Fun
Filed Under: Advertising, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Andew Aydin, banned books, behavioral change, book gimmicks, Boys and Reading, celebrity readers, childrens reading resources, comic books, comics in the classroom, decline in reading, digital media, digital storytelling, edu tech, education, forbidden fruit, Gamification of reading, Getting Boys to Read, graphic novels, GuysRead.com, Harry Potter Alliance, kidlit, Kids & Family Reading Report, kids choice, kids reading less, kids reading more, March, March Book Three, March Book Two, Mo Smells Pink, Nate Powell, online reading, operation teen book drop, PBS Kids, PBS Reading, pleasure reading, Read Kiddo Read, readergirlz, reading, reading games, Reading is Fundamental, reading resources, Real life heroes, Reluctant Readers, Rep. John Lewis, Room to Read, Scholastic study, Storybird, storytelling, Super Why, superheroes, SuperHeroes Documentary, SuperWhy Storybook Creator, teaching with graphic novels, teen lit, Teen Read Week, Tornado Warning, using marketing tactics, Will Smith running and reading, YA books, YALSA
Media Simulations Where Kids Cast Their Vote: Silly or Sage?
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 voting, “because the next four years affects your future as much as any adult.” (ahem, maybe more, kidlets!) Truth is, I missed posting yesterday because kids were … [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