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Analyzing Media Messages: A Digital Dogs Demo of NAMLE’s Key Questions

June 14, 2021 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Update! October 26, 2021 Join Lucy & the pups for a Halloween haunt to celebrate Media Literacy Week Oct. 25-29, 2021 as new Halloween coloring pages and Pre-K through grade 2 FREE activities "appear" to seed inquiry early with characters from "The Secret of the Vanishing Bones" new kid lit! Follow the fun with FREE downloads and more ideas in the Parent/Educator Guide at … [Read more...]

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Media Literacy Week: Wait, That Actress is HOW Old?

October 27, 2016 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Oct. 27, 2016 On the cusp of Media Literacy Week, Oct. 31-Nov. 4, 2016 I'm turning over the mic (er, keyboard) to MediaGirls as part of our Media Literacy Week series on creating critical thinkers in and out of the classroom. What happens when the portrayal of teens, usually played by 20-somethings, lands on real life adolescents in the form of body image angst? What media … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Sexualization & Body Image Tagged With: ABC Family hit shows, adolescent body image, body ideals, critical thinking, Freeform teen shows, Gilmore Girls, girlpower, Glee, media literacy week, Media messages, media-literacy, MediaGirls, Michelle Cove, NAMLE, PhotoShop, Pretty Little Liars, Proud to Be Me, Sexualization & Body Image, teen actresses, teen tv, teen-angst, The Illusionists, tweens and body image, twentysomething teens

Media Literacy Week 2016 Spotlight: Camp Reel Stories

October 12, 2016 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Oct. 31, 2016 Official first day of Media Literacy week which runs Oct. 31-Nov.4! Please share critical thinking tips and tools to create a more informed public, so we don't have a plague of fake news, and bogus social media 'shares' sans fact checking and journalism reduced to content marketing! NAMLE has tons of resources and activities to make the week fun, festive and full … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy Tagged With: #DigCitSummit, Amy Jussel Partner, Brenda Chapman, Camp Reel Stories, critical thinking, digital citizenship, Digital Citizenship Summit, Esther Pearl, Geena Davis Institute, gender and media portrayals, gender diversity in media, Girl Fest, maker movement, media as STEM career, media creators, media literacy week, media makers, media workshops, NAMLE, Pixar alums, Pixar in a box, STEAM, STEM, teen girls, Virtual Reality, Worldwide Women

The Science of Character: Hosted by Shaping Youth and Reach and Teach

March 17, 2014 by Amy Jussel 2 Comments

Mar. 20, 2014 Premiering worldwide! Attention students of life...“There are 7.1 billion people on the planet, and each one of us has a unique character,” opens The Science of Character filmmaker and digital innovation advocate Tiffany Shlain, renowned for her work unraveling the giant hairball of media messaging and technological shifts impacting humanity on a global scale. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: #CharacterDay, Amy-Jussel, Character Day, character strengths, cloud filmmaking, cloud films, cloudsourcing, collaborative learning, collective knowledge, connected, Craig Wiesner, crowdsourcing, Declaration of InterDependence, Derrick Kikuchi, Digital Detox, digital filmmaking, digital innovation, Doug Engelbart, firing up the global brain, humanity, humanity rising, Let it Ripple, March 20, Mobile Films for Global Change, NAMLE, NextNow, participatory learning, reach and teach, SEL, Social Emotional Learning, student of life, Students, Sundance, Sustainability, the film, The Future Starts Here, The Mediatrician, The Science of Character, Tiffany Shlain

Shaping Youth at Sundance: Film Finds +Parenting Perspectives

February 21, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Feb. 21, 2014 For the first time ever, Sundance Film Institute added a Sundance Kids division, to introduce and inspire youth with indie films...alas, I couldn’t find anyone who knew about it.It's been a month since Sundance, and though I've asked around repeatedly, even fellow media/screenwriter pals like Dana Moe Halley, who is covering some of the films focusing on families … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: #CharacterDay, Alive Inside, bipolar disorder, boyhood, connected, Connected-The Film, Dana Moe Halley, dementia, Digital Detox, diversity in families, documentaries, Family diversity, film review, independent film, Indie film, Infinitely Polar Bear, information overload, internet addiction, kids and media, Light Web Dark Web, Love Child gaming culture, Mark Ruffalo, Media management, media portrayal, mental disorders, mental health in media, mental health portrayal, Morgan Spurlock, NAMLE, Richard Linklater, Science of Character, Sundance 2014, Sundance Kids, Tiffany Shlain, Web Junkie