Jan. 2013-Shaping Youth has taken a first ever, full month long blog hiatus until Feb. 1, 2013. You can follow our posts on Twitter in the interim while we unplug the blog to repower the system with fresh approaches to timely topics you care about concerning media and marketing's impact on kids. Media management and recapturing focus has been challenging for many of us in … [Read more...]
Digital Detox, Blog Hiatus, and Fresh New Focus for 2013
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Alone Together, attention economy, connected learning, digital deluge, Digital Detox, Digital Vertigo, emotional wellness, FOMO, Generation-Digital, information overload, kids-media, Media management, MLK, MLK Day of Service, multitasking, Screen Free Week, social-media, unplug
Youth Call to Service: MLK Day Off? Make It a Day On!
Jan. 16, 2017 Update This year it's particularly poignant to contrast the ethics, integrity and service values of our outgoing President Obama with the stark greed, corruption, and narcissism of the incoming oligarchy that threatens our very democracy, so this is a call to action for each and every American to serve not just today, but year-round. On the #MLKDay … [Read more...]
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