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Spring Break Sanctuary: Away From Digital Dramas, Peer Reality Shows

April 13, 2010 by Amy Jussel 14 Comments

Mar. 25, 2016 Just back from a 'spring break' social media hiatus reprising our unplugged trip to Catalina Island, albeit only day tripping vs a leisurely week away, as we tried to 'recreate' and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Always-on, Anne Collier, Catalina, cellphone, digital citizenship, digital dramas, Facebook, free range kids, Generation-Digital, Get 'Em Outside, Get out of your own life, internet-safety, KGOY, Kids, kids want to be kids, life balance, Media, Media management, Media Unplugged, media-literacy, military brats, mobile, My Vetwork, nature deficit, Nature Rocks, NetFamily-News, Outdoor Education, peer influence, reality shows, reconnecting, social networking, social norms, social-media, spring break, teen drama, tethered, texting, The Young and the Digital, totally wired, trauma, Unplug Your Kids, unplugged, vacation, worlds collide, youth

CyberBullying Tragedies and Internet Safety: eModeration Part3

December 3, 2009 by Amy Jussel 13 Comments

Dec. 3, 2009 Just visited the excellent Connect Safely forum to pose the industry question, is there ANYthing that digital moderators or online advocates could’ve done in the child safety realm to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Misogyny & Racism, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: Adinas-Deck, age violations, Anne Collier, banning, blocking, bullying, CEOP, Common Sense Media, Connect Safely, Crisp, Crisp Thinking, CSM, Cyber Tipline, Cyberbullying, digital media, digital multiculturalism, e-learning, eModeration, ethics, Exploited children, Facebook, Focus Dialogues, global digital citizens, Global Kids, Good-Play-Project, grooming, Hailey Hacks, Harvard, Hope Witsell, How to Bullyproof Yourself, Howard Rheingold, imposter profiles, internet filters, internet safety guide, IWF, Izzy-Neis, MacArthur-Foundation, media-literacy, Meeting of the Minds, MMORPGs, moderation, monitoring, netfamilynews, NetModerator, online behavior, online risks, peer tech support, predator panic, RezEd.org, safe chat, Safe Kids.com, self-esteem, sexploitation, sexting, smart socializing, social networking, Tamara Littleton, teen suicide, texting, ThinkUKnow, tracking, Virtual-Worlds, Wired Safety

What’s On Tweens’ Minds? Meet Denise Restauri of AllyKatzz

November 24, 2008 by Amy Jussel 20 Comments

I figure the Obama girls are going to be a huge focal point in the months ahead (gawd help those darlings) and self-ascribed tween “experts” will be crawling out of the media morass … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: adolescence, Age of Conversation 2, all things girl week, Ally's Gang, AllyKatzz, anonymity, Buy the change, cake TV, Celebrity worship, confessional, COPPA, Denise Restauri, FAO Schwartz, girl guitars, Givecard, Giving Tree, internet-safety, kids marketing, Kids Online, Malia and Sasha Obama, New-Moon-Girl-Media, Obama girls, online confessions, Oodle, Packaging-Girlhood, Pink Think, Pop-Culture, PopStar, puberty, Reign-of-the-Girl-Child, secret life of tweenagers, secrets being told, Sexualization & Body Image, smarticle, social networking, street teams, tween blogs, tween experts, tween secrets, tweens, Twilight, vampires, YPulse

Move Over Dr. Phil, Here Comes “Doctor Jenn for Girls”

November 21, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

“Ever wonder why it seems so hard to be a good parent? Do you ever feel like you don’t know how to survive the turbulent teen years? Or where you can turn for help? Rest assured… … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Advertising, Branding & Consumerism, Emerging trends & STEM, Growing up too soon, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: 000 MySpace friends, 66, All Things Girl, beauty myth, Doctor Jenn For Girls, Dr. Jenn, Early-Sexualization, girl power, girls, Girls You Just don't get it, HSM, Jennifer Austin Leigh, Joe Kelly, Just Kids Inc., life coach, life coaching, limbic system, MySpace, Nancy-Gruver, neuroscience, New-Moon-Girl-Media, parents as peers, RESPECT, Respect Rx, Respect Rx rallies, social networking, talking to teens, teen confessionals, teen girls, teens, The DAD man, tweens, Twilight, what girls want, what guys want, youth, youth pulse, Youth-advocacy, YPulse

New Moon Girl Media Officially Launches on Founder’s Birthday!

November 12, 2008 by Amy Jussel 27 Comments

Bringing girls voices to the world, New Moon Girl Media’s online community vaults out of beta testing to be “born” on Founder Nancy Gruver’s birthday today! I’m … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Sexualization & Body Image, Shaping Youth Tagged With: 100% user generated content issue, All Things Girl, Amy-Jussel, arts and culture, body and feelings, Budget Travel, changing the world, digi girls, digital divas, female tech, feminism, femme, girl geeks, girl power, girls, girls magazines, Girls rising, hamster in a tiara, How to say it to girls, Jpeg magazine, Kids, Kids Online Unconference, Luna, Mind on the media, Nancy-Gruver, New Moon, New-Moon-Girl-Media, NewMoonGir.com, Orb28, sister to sister, social networking, teens, tween girls, tweens, twists on traditional magazine models, UGC, user generated content, women, youth

“Check It Out! I Got A Sponsor For My Race!” A Wellness Media Mashup

October 29, 2008 by Amy Jussel 7 Comments

Belated congratulations to our own Shaping Youth Nutrition MA, RD, and ACSM Certified Health Fitness Correspondent Rebecca Scritchfield, (yes, those letters ALL matter, as she’s worked her tail … [Read more...]

Filed Under: 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, Viral & Buzz Media Tagged With: +3, +3 Network, Americans diabetes, bicycling, causes, charitable giving, children, CSR, cycling, diabetes, Diabetes Action Team, diabetes prevention, Diabetes Research and Education, diabetic connect, dietary intake, dlife.com, fitness, fitness challenge, fundraising, globesity, goals, GPS mobile, health, Health 2.0, I survived Hurricane Hannah, IDEO, iphone apps, Making it count, marathons, Marine Corp Marathon, Me to We, millennials, motivation, nutrition, Plus 3 Network, Plus3 Network, privacy data, race, Rebeca Boyte, Rebecca Scritchfield, rewards, Rick Sutton, runners, running, safe routes to school, social networking, social-media, sponsors, sweat equity into social currency, teens, The Tech, track, Trek, Tudiabetes, wellness, Wellness 2.0

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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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