Jan.1, 2010 Happy New Year! This joyous photo of youthful exuberance is Bryn Kressin, at left; one of our Shaping Youth winners of yesterday’s Packaging Boyhood book drawing where we pulled names … [Read more...]
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USC Media Student Bryn Kressin & Packaging Boyhood Book Winners!
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 2009 top book picks, AFS, AIFS, API, Aspire Abroad, book, Bryn Kressin, collective knowledge, college, collegiate, contest winners, Curse of the Good Girl, Diane Levin, education, Elizabeth J Meyer, gap year, Gender, Happy New Year, high school abroad, IIE Passport, Jean Kilbourne, language resources, lifelong learning, Liz Funk, Liz J Meyer, Lyn Mikel-Brown, Mamarazzi, Mark Tappan, military brats, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, New Year Resolutions, NYU, Oh the Places You'll Go, Packaging-Boyhood, passport, Rachel Simmons, Rosalind Wiseman, Semester at Sea, Sharon Lamb, So Sexy So Soon, Students, study abroad, SuperGirl, SuperGirls Speak Out, Surfrider Foundation, Suzette Valle, teens, travel, Travel abroad, walkabout, youth internships
Swine Flu School Panic? NGC Now Offers Sick Day Media

Nov. 16, 2009 Tune into the way back machine to get some pertinent media wisdom for today’s H1N1 pandemic scaring the stuffing out of young kids. See the poster at left? It was produced in 1939 at … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 60 minutes swine flu, AAP, at risk groups, Bruce Sallan, Carry on, CDC, Center for Disease Control, channel, daily journal of flu, disease, distance learning, flu, flu.gov, H1N1, H1N1 by the numbers, health, hospitals, hysteria, Keep calm, Kids, KidsHealth.org, learning, lifelong learning, mainstream media, media panic, media-literacy, medical advice, MSM, national emergency, National Geographic, pandemic, parents fears, pediatric, pregnancy, school panic, seasonal flu, sick day school, Swine flu, symptoms of swine flu, teen, thimerosal, tween, vaccine, vaccine controversy, vaccine opponents, wellness, youth
Kids, See How You’re Smart: Use Your Intelligence(s!)

There’s nothing more heart-wrenching to me than a child self-critical of his or her brainpower, tossing off statements about ‘the smart kids” while excluding themselves from this tribe. I see this … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: academia, Brain Based Biz, Brain Science, Brains, child genius, childrens intelligence, collaborative learning, Doing School, Dr. Ellen Weber, Dr. Robyn McMasters, education reform, eight intelligences, higher grades, informal-learning, lablob, Learn2Develop, lifelong learning, MITA, multiple intelligence, Multiple intelligences, NCLB, NEA, neuroscience, new horizons for learning, participatory learning, SOS, student achievement, student voices, Students, teaching strategies, teens, thinkers, thinking, two-footed questions