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Can Digital Kids Click With Nature, Wildlife?

October 21, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Aug. 25, 2016 Update Celebrate 100 Years of our National Parks with FREE admission today! In honor of this centennial milestone, a quick roundup of children's media designed specifically to get … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: Children and Nature, compassion for animals, Defenders of Wildlife, digital kids, digital technology and outdoor play, eco literacy, Environmental Education, environmental stewards, habitat loss, nature apps, nature deficit, NCLI, No-Child-Left-Inside, NWF, play outdoors, tech and nature, TiltWorld, wildlife, wildlife encroachment, World Wildlife Fund

Tumble Leaf: Outdoor Play and Discovery via Amazon Kids

July 22, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Update May 11, 2015 While Tumble Leaf continues to rake in multiple awards including five daytime Emmys, Amazon Studios Greenlights Six New Pilots for Kids. (mostly ages 6-11, one PreK) Here's hoping … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment Tagged With: Amazon Kids Shows, Amazon Original Programming, Amazon Prime, Amazon Studios, applied science, Blue's Clues, Brain insights, brain plasticity, building brains, camping and outdoors, Children and Nature, Creative Galaxy, critical thinking PreK, developing children's brainpower, discovery through play, Dr. Alice Wilder, early childhood education, eco literacy, educational psychology, experiential learning, experiential play, Fred Rogers, free range kids, get-outdoors-kids, hands-on learning, Kelli Bixler, kids and nature, Kids programming, kids quality TV, maker movement, media and education, media-literacy, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, Outdoor Education, Outdoors Rx, play outdoors, power of play, quality kids TV, screen time, sensory play, STEM, streaming TV, Stuart Brown, summertime science, tots and tech, Tumble Leaf, TV alternatives, Wild Kratts nature

Look Up! Perfect Anthem for Screen Free Week

May 8, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

May 4-10, 2015 is Screen Free Week I'm being called for jury duty, so who knows where that lands...meanwhile, here's a links list below reprising resources to enjoy time out and about unplugged!Screen … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Pro-Social & Positive Picks Tagged With: 101 screen free activities, Beyond screen time, CCFC, critical thinking and media, digerati, Digital Detox, digital learning, disconnect to reconnect, emotional wellness, family time, FOMO, Gary Turk, get outside, information overload, kids and screens, kids media influence, Look Up, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, Nature deficit disorcer, obesity prevention, personal branding, play outdoors, Project Wild Thing, reconnecting kids with nature, Screen Free Week, screentime, sedentary screens, sit time to fit time, social networking boredom, tech free schools, tech sabbaths, unplug, virtual stage

Nat’l Wildlife Federation’s Ubooly Toy Deal + New Digital Kids Report

January 3, 2014 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Jan. 2, 2014 From the amazing Explore.org livestream media and National Geographic critter cams to the gaming immersion into the world of wildlife via Animal Jam I’ve been thinking a lot about the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Animal Jam, balance screen time with green time, be out there, Children and Nature, children and screens, connecting kids to nature, Consumerism, digital kids, digital technology kids, digital-culture-play, Disney Nature, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Friending Fresh Air, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Mobile Media, National Wildlife Federation, nature and wildlife apps for kids, nature apps, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, play outdoors, play outside, Project Wild Thing, Ranger Rick, Richard-Louv, screens in nature, screentime, Sharing Nature with Children, tech and nature coexist, The Nature Principle, Ubooly, Winter Wonderland Photo Contest

Dot Complicated: Holiday Media Management

November 19, 2013 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

Nov. 19, 2013 Ditch the tantalizing Instagram food shots and showy status updates. Halt turkey tweeting. Spare the live streaming of the family fest. MAYbe use the Pinterest prep cheat sheets if you … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM Tagged With: children’s media use, Common Sense Media, DOT, Dot Complicated, Facebook, get outside, impact of excessive screen time, kids media influence, kids-media, Media management, media mindfulness, media monitoring, mobile media kids zero to eight, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, nature-kids, No tweeting while you’re eating, over-sharing, play outdoors, Randi Zuckerberg, Richard-Louv, screenstaver, social media vs face time, Stop Sharing on Thanksgiving, Thanksgiving stereotypes, totally wired, wired lives, zero to eight

Will Kids Reconnect With Nature…At School?

August 14, 2013 by Amy Jussel 6 Comments

Aug. 7, 2013 “Wait, didn’t we already DO this?”That’s the refrain I hear constantly among parents, whether it’s supporting environmental education legislation, or getting junk food out of vending … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment Tagged With: applied science, Children and Nature, citizen science, Discover the forest, eco education, eco literacy, eco literacy in classroom, Environmental Education, Get 'Em Outside, green schools, Kids-Nature, MIT Vanished Game, nature apps, nature health benefits, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, NCLI Coalition, play outdoors, Richard-Louv, science through nature, seeding green, STEM, Sustainability, teaching eco literacy, The Bug Chicks, The Nature Principle

Positive Picks In Media & Marketing: Pigtail Pals, Redefining Girly

May 5, 2011 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

May 5, 2011 To prevent founder flameout and “battle fatigue” in the fight to win the hearts and mindshare of our children, I’ve decided to devote May to “spring forward” with media and marketing … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: age compression, All Things Girl, alternative boutiques, Amy-Jussel, anti-princess, defending pretending, girls clothing, Janesville Wisconsin, kids free to be kids, Melissa Wardy, mompreneurs, online retailers, open ended play, Packaging-Girlhood, PigTail Pals, PigtailPals, play, play outdoors, Pop culture impact on kids, power of play, preserving childhood, putting the child back in childhood, Redefine Girly, redefining girly, selling out kids, sexualization of children, small business, Whimsy Bees, Women of Worth, work from home, worthy small business

AHA & Nintendo: Tag-Teaming Innovation To Get Kids Moving (Pt2)

February 3, 2011 by Amy Jussel 5 Comments

Feb 3, 2011 When I was invited to attend the “Power of Active Play” summit hosted by the American Heart Association and Nintendo, my synapses were firing in Howard Rheingold mode, wondering if this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: academic benefits of play, AHA, American Heart Association, Amy-Jussel, CES11, children, digital-culture-play, exergaming, exertion games, gaming, Get active, Health 2.0, Health Gamers, healthy games, Hope Lab, Humana Games, Humana Games for Health, IFTF, Innovations in getting active, Jane McGonigal, Kids at play, Kids health, kinetics, Let's Move, motion control systems, National Institute of Play, Nintendo Wii, obesity, physical fitness kids, play, play outdoors, Play promotes creativity, Play Works, PlayWorks, Power of Active Play Summit, power of play, Recess Counts, RWJF, scientific benefits of play, Second that e-motion, Verb Yellowball, wellness, Why play matters, Wii Are Family, Wii Fit

Power of Play Series: (Pt 1) Play Works!

January 29, 2011 by Amy Jussel 15 Comments

Jan. 29, 2011 No doubt about it, I need more PLAY in my life. You? I'm rereading Dr. Stuart Brown's Play: How it Shapes the Brain, Opens the Imagination & Invigorates the Soul and following the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: academics and play, AHA, American Heart Association, Amy-Jussel, children, digital-culture-play, exergaming, Get active, Innovations in getting active, Institute of Play, Kids at play, Kids health, kinetics, Let's Move, National Institute of Play, Nintendo Wii, physical fitness kids, play, play outdoors, Play promotes creativity, Play Works, PlayWorks, Power of Active Play Summit, power of play, Recess Counts, sensory, sledding, tactile play, Why play matters, Wii Fit

Is It ONLY ME? Disabling Facebook Places In Pursuit of Privacy

August 19, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

August 19, 2010 Today is World Humanitarian Day and I definitely needed this inspiring humanitarian video to gain some perspective on humanity. (fab 4 mins after the jump, and a how-to disable vid on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Vapid Values, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: A Thin Line, Bullyproof, CoParenting, Cruel's Not Cool, Cyberbullying, cyberstalking, Diaspora, Digital, digital abuse, Facebook Places, facebook places lets your friends broadcast where you are, Facebook privacy settings, Facebook-Beacon, Frontline SMS, geolocation, go outdoors and out of reach, how to disable Facebook Places, LBS, Lifehacker, location based services, Media Unplugged, mobile mapping, mobile-social, Parenting-Teens, personal safety, Places, play outdoors, privacy breach, privacy warning, privacy-data-youth, World Humanitarian Day, Youth-Media