off the grid

Digital Detox: Checkin Out For A Shaping Youth Founder’s Retreat

March 4, 2011 by Amy Jussel 3 Comments

Mar. 6, 2014 This year the sundown to sundown National Day of Unplugging is Friday March 7, 2014 through Sat. Mar. 8. Join me? For more digital detox beyond media management and awareness raising, (which is a regular ritual for me) please check out the upcoming Screen Free Week challenge May 5-11, 2014. Definitely "not for beginners"...but always very worthwhile.More posts on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Always-on, Avoid technology, Be present in the present, CCFC, digital deluge, Digital Detox, Digital Diet, Generation M, Get out of your own life, Going dark, Info Overload, IORG, Media Balance, media-literacy, National Day of Unplugging, off the grid, partial attention deficit, Reboot, Reboot your life, Sabbath Manifesto, Screen Free Week, spring break sanctuary, Taking A Break From the Net, Tech detox, Tech fasting, Too much content, Tune Out, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged

Media Slave? ReShaping Habits For More Summer Fun

July 27, 2010 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

July 27, 2010 “Why aren’t you posting on Shaping Youth every day like you used to, Amy? Are you on summer hiatus like the networks?” Um, I guess that’s what you’d call it. Frankly, it never occurred to me that I needed to ‘inform’ people that I was trying to eke out some ‘white space’ and life balance in the name of healthy media consumption, because it seemed like an … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ameba TV, blog slave, Cat in the hat knows a lot about that, Center for Online Addiction, copyright act, data deluge, data-mining, digital overload, digital-culture-play, DMCA, fair use, Generation-Digital, get outside, GLTR-Girls, Huge, Inception, information overload, infovore, internet addiction, Janet Lansbury, life balance, Mappy Friends, Media management, media slave, Media Unplugged, mind games, NCLI, need for play, off the grid, play outside, policy, power of play, privacy, privacy hearings, real life, skiboat, spring break sanctuary, Summer of Link Love, tmi, Twitter, unstructured play, wakeboarding