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Reach and Teach Kids in Fun, Fresh Ways: Ten Under $10

December 21, 2009 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Dec. 20, 2009 In my last post I went for ‘free media finds that are priceless year-round,’ today I’ll nudge it up a notch to prove you can gift meaning and mindfulness without spending a fortune (not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: anti-princess, budget, butterfly origami, cartoon novels, children, Comics, edu tech, Free the Children, frugal, gifts, girls are not chicks, graphic novels, green, It Takes A Child, Kids, Kids Are Heroes, Liam O'Donnell, Manga, manners, Me to We, meaningful media, Media Meltdown, media-literacy, nonviolence, organic, parenting, reach and teach, RezEd, self-esteem, socially responsible, stocking stuffers, teachers, teens, Truce, Truce Toy Action Guide, tweens, under $10

Kids’ Online Ethics Part 3: Community Solidarity; Marketing Cheats

July 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 12 Comments

At the recent Ypulse Nat'l Mashup, I chatted with teen virtual goods wünderkind Asuka Martin also interviewed here by Benett Carter about Teen Second Life. I'm fascinated by her composure in handling … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: 350.org, Angela-McBride, Asuka-Martin, branding-cultures, Cheat-Codes, copybots, Dizzywood, Easter-eggs, Electronic-Arts, Ethics-virtual-worlds, Game-Cheats, Gamine-Expedition, GoodPlay-Project, in-game-marketing, informal-learning, Izzy-Neis, kids-creative-content, Kids-gaming-secret-codes, Kindly-High-School-SL, machinima, marketers-using-game-cheats, neopets, New-Life-for-Old-Soles, online-communities-kids, Radical-Trust, Recycleworks, RezEd, Sam-Gilbert, Sara-Grimes, Second-Life, Sight-Night, Step-It-Up-2007, Teen-Second-Life, Teen-virtual-worlds, Tiger-Woods-Xbox-cheat, tweens, UGC-teen-apparel, Virtual-to-real-world-play-patterns, YPulse, YPulse-Mashup-virtual-worlds, Zookazoo

Kids’ Gaming Ethics and Immersive Virtual Worlds (Part 2)

July 25, 2008 by Amy Jussel 19 Comments

Are "cheat codes" a symbol of impatient multi-taskers incapable of working through frustration that need to leap frog over the hard part of life? Or a conduit to open new challenges at higher levels … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Amy-Jussel, Asuka-Martin, Avatars-behaving-badly, BlogHer-Second-Life, Cheat-Codes, Cheats, danah-boyd, Dizzywood, Easter-eggs, Elf-Island, Ethics-Gaming, ethics-immersive-worlds, Game-Cheats, GameBoy-cheats, Good-Play-Project, Guitar-Hero-Cheats, HulalaGirls, internet-chat-moderation-kids, Izzy-Neis, Kids-Virtual-worlds, Michael-Carter, moral-panic, NetFamily-News, online-communities-kids, Product Placement, RezEd, Sandra-Foyt, serious-games, Teen-Second-Life, Webkinz, workarounds, YPulse, Zookazoo

Are “Game Cheats” a Misnomer? Kids, Ethics & Virtual Worlds

July 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Yesterday I had yet another mondo three-hour lunch with Michael Carter, PhD, mastermind of informal learning and Chief Playwright at cool new upstart virtual world Zookazoo. (feature forthcoming on … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Consumerism, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Avatars-behaving-badly, Barry-Joseph, Cheats, digital-culture-play, digital-identity, digital-youth-research, DYR, Game-Cheats, Game-Ethics, Gold-farming, Howard-Gardner, informal-learning, MacArthur-Foundation, Michael-Carter, MMORPG, Neopets-Fanatic, Nick-Yee, RezEd, Sam-Gilbert, Virtual-worlds-kids-ethics, World-of-Warcraft, WoW, Ypulse-Mashup, Zookazoo