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Dream It. Do It. Youth Grants For Social Change in Virtual Worlds

October 30, 2008 by Amy Jussel 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...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Nutrition & Wellness, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: $1000 youth grants, A childs war, Ashoka, Avatars, Barry-Joseph, crowdsourcing, curriculum, DIDI, DIDI grants, Digital Media Learning Competition, DML, Dream it do it, Global Kids, Hastac, health, Health 2.0, HopeLab, kids collaboration, machinima, millennials, MMORPG, participatory learning, peer-to-peer, positive social change, RezEd.org, Ruckus Nation, RWJF, Scribd, Second-Life, seed funding, SL, Social entrepreneurs, Sustainability, teen health, Teen-Second-Life, teens, TSL, virtual learning, Virtual-Worlds, Wellness 2.0, youth empowerment, youth grants, Youth Ventures

150 Kids’ Virtual Worlds: 95 Live, 68 in R&D; How Many Are Worthy?

September 2, 2008 by Amy Jussel 16 Comments

Seems everyone is in L.A. for the Virtual Worlds Expo except me right now, with e-mails and schmooze plans flinging back and forth like a gamer leader board. No, gang, I can’t make it to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Nutrition & Wellness, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 150 virtual kids worlds, Avatars, Barbie World, BarbieGirl, Barry-Joseph, children, DDR, Denise Tayloe, Digital Media Learning Competition, Dizzywood, DML, Elf-Island, Game-Cheats, Gamine-Expedition, Gigglebubble media, Global Kids, Hastac, Holy Meatballs, informal-learning, Izzy-Neis, Joi Podgorny, Kids, Kids Online, Kids-Virtual-worlds, Living Folklore, MacArthur-Foundation, Me2, Me2 Universe, Michael-Carter, P4K, Pink Think, Playing for Keeps, Ruckus Nation, Safety and Fun, Sara-Grimes, Scott Arpajian, Second-Life, serious-games, simulations, SL, teen, Teen-Second-Life, Tempest in Crescent City, The Escapist, tween, Unconference, Virtual Ability, Virtual Gaming in Schools, Virtual Worlds Expo, VW, Wii Fit, Wii Healthy, Wii Sport, Willow Chillow, Young Innovator Awards, youth, Zookazoo

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26 Sep

Started FREE @knightfdn AP course "How to Use ChatGPT & other Generative #AI Tools in Newsrooms" to debrief myself in time for media literacy week on the pros/cons of low/high risk automation practices & protocols #MediaLitWk #medialiteracy #NewsLiteracy

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12 Sep

How Can We Help Students Evaluate Scientific Information? Media Literacy Education! We recently convened #STEM & #MediaLiteracy educators to discuss the skills students need to learn to better evaluate scientific information & resist misinformation. ➡️

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12 Sep

Enjoying @iftf webinar happening now on #AI which is maxed out on attendees/Zoom, but viewable here: Complements the book I just finished, The Coming Wave which I HIGHLY recommend w/a macro lens on societal implications: https://www.the-coming-wave.com/ #IFTF

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6 Sep

"When #car companies aren’t busy sharing or selling your #data, they’re often not protecting it as well as they should. We couldn’t confirm if any of the car brands we researched meet our Minimum #Security Standards. That’s really bad and not normal" #tech

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