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 … [Read more...]
Gifts of Time, Tech Training for Dad’s Day
June 13, 2013 by 2 Comments
June 13, 2013 Our family just wrapped up an impromptu multi-generational digital debriefing with all ages in town for teen graduation. “Wait, how’d you DO that?” became the common refrain of the day, … [Read more...]
Kids & Voting: The Ultimate Show-n-Tell
November 1, 2010 by 5 Comments
Nov. 1, 2010 Everyone’s buzzing about getting out the vote, but if you’re under 18, what’s a kid to do, besides prodding parents to find their nearest voting spot? Google Election Center's gadget … [Read more...]
Age of Conversation & Kids: Digital Citizens v Snark Tanks
May 26, 2010 by 8 Comments
May 26, 2010 When I mention social media being part of kids’ identity, parents often cringe and squinch up their faces like I’ve force fed them BeanBoozled Jelly Bellies in pickle and ‘rotten egg’ … [Read more...]
The Laramie Project: Using Media to Teach Tolerance 10 Years Later
November 13, 2009 by 6 Comments
Nov. 13, 2009 It’s fitting that The Laramie Project premiers locally tonight in San Mateo on Friday the 13th, as the theater production resurrects a haunting melancholy on the ‘unlucky’ and fateful … [Read more...]
Storybird Kids Online Book Community Hatches Creative Fledglings
September 10, 2009 by 15 Comments
Update 11-19-2014: Storybird Studio (Q&A here) launches for educators today, as a "suite of easy-to-use creative, administrative, and social tools for writing, reading, and storytelling" … [Read more...]
Eileen Clegg: Capturing Knowledge Via Visual Insight
November 6, 2008 by 14 Comments
When I was asked to present a workshop with all the powerhouse thought leaders and academic bigwigs this past spring at the 6th annual CCFC summit: Consuming Kids: The Sexualization of Children and … [Read more...]
The Age of Conversation 2: A Tribe of 237 Leading Change
October 31, 2008 by 20 Comments
AOC2--Double the flavor, double the fun! (quick, name that ad!) The ever prolific Seth Godin of Purple Cow fame (yes, I’m proud to be one...moooo!) has a new book out called … [Read more...]
Dream It. Do It. Youth Grants For Social Change in Virtual Worlds
October 30, 2008 by 12 Comments
PDiddy-Puff Daddy-Diddy dude step aside, as THIS is the kind of D.I.D.I. initiative that I want to see out there!!! D.I.D.I. stands for Dream It. Do It…An Ashoka Youth Venture effort with … [Read more...]
Media Simulations Where Kids Cast Their Vote: Silly or Sage?
October 14, 2008 by 7 Comments
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 … [Read more...]
Young Innovators: Get Out of the Garage and Into the Marketplace!
September 5, 2008 by 9 Comments
Calling all social media wünderkind, changebloggers, and humanitarian twitterati and digerati of the millennial set (yes, this means you, Alex Steed) there’s ‘gold in them thar’ … [Read more...]
Kids, See How You’re Smart: Use Your Intelligence(s!)
August 27, 2008 by 22 Comments
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...]
