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Media Literacy Week 2016 Spotlight: Camp Reel Stories

October 12, 2016 by Amy Jussel 1 Comment

Oct. 31, 2016 Official first day of Media Literacy week which runs Oct. 31-Nov.4! Please share critical thinking tips and tools to create a more informed public, so we don't have a plague of fake … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy Tagged With: #DigCitSummit, Amy Jussel Partner, Brenda Chapman, Camp Reel Stories, critical thinking, digital citizenship, Digital Citizenship Summit, Esther Pearl, Geena Davis Institute, gender and media portrayals, gender diversity in media, Girl Fest, maker movement, media as STEM career, media creators, media literacy week, media makers, media workshops, NAMLE, Pixar alums, Pixar in a box, STEAM, STEM, teen girls, Virtual Reality, Worldwide Women

Distractingly Sexy: Media Literacy Summer Fun

July 2, 2015 by Amy Jussel Leave a Comment

July 2, 2015 This summer has been heating up with a slow burn in social media maneuvers starting in June when female scientists set Twitter ablaze with the #DistractinglySexy hashtag in response to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Media Literacy Tagged With: #DistractinglySexy, Alex Morgan, Everyday Sexism, female scientists, FIFA sexism, girl-empowerment, girls in science, girls sports, Her Next Chapter, Media Girls, media literacy activities, MEF, objectification, parenting pop culture tools, parenting tweens, Playing-Unfair, pop culture media literacy, preteen body image, preteen girls, SciGirls, Sexualization, STEAM, STEM, Tim Hunt, tweens, USA womens soccer, women in science, womens sports, world cup soccer

Shaping Youth Sponsors She’s Geeky: Where WIT & Wisdom Flourish

January 25, 2010 by Amy Jussel 11 Comments

Update Jan. 9, 2017 Coming up...Jan. 28, 2017 my favorite "unconference" convenes called "She's Geeky" which I've written about since its inception, with posts from 2007 and for years thereafter … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth, Stereotypes & Diversity Tagged With: Anne Collier, Beth Blecherman, Beth-Kanter, brainiac, business math, Computer Museum, crisis facing working daughters, DigiGirlz, Doug Engelbart, eldercare, female, feminization of poverty, girls in tech, Girls in Technology, glass ceiling, Kaliya Hamlin, Lynn Langit, Math Doesn't Suck, middle school, mobile platforms, NASA quest, NetFamily-News, scientists, She's geeky, Smart Girls Rock, Space+Station-Discovery+Shuttle-Two+Female+Commanders+i, STEAM, STEM, TechMama, technology, The Girl Effect, The Tech, Travelling Geeks, Unconference, Web2.0, Wise Women, WIT, women, women in engineering, women in tech, Women in Technology

Kids Green Science Shenanigans for St. Patrick’s Day

March 16, 2009 by Amy Jussel 9 Comments

Update March 15, 2016 Will you be celebrating the lucky lore and leprechauns/limericks of March 17 holiday hoopla? Hadn't seen this easy rainbow slime for STEM & STEAM sensory play and tactile … [Read more...]

Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Product Placement, Shaping Youth Tagged With: ECE, Freakonomics, green, green activities, Green Eggs and Ham, green food, Green media, Green science, green snow, Irish, Kids, leprechaun, pot of gold, Project Green Prom, Project Wild Thing, rainbow, rainbow slime, Saint Patricks Day, sensory activities kids, St Patricks Day, STEAM, STEM green science, Steve Spangler Science, teens, turn people green, Turning Green, Virtual-Worlds, youth

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Avatar Jay Rosen @jayrosen_nyu ·

26 Nov

Univision anchor Jorge Ramos says his network’s friendly interview with Trump, “put in doubt the independence of our news department.”

"We cannot... offer Trump an open microphone to broadcast his falsehoods and conspiracy theories."

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Avatar Sam Wineburg @samwineburg ·

16 Nov

Out today! A driver's manual for staying sane on the internet. @holden

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Avatar Amy Jussel @shapingyouth ·

16 Nov

As @jayrosen_nyu so clearly states, it's "not the odds, but the stakes"...Media and #journo can convey context without partisan pandering, clearly citing facts on autocracy objectively...@Sulliview is right, the public deserves to be informed. #NewsLiteracy #democracy

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16 Nov

Dangerous 🆘📢to see this, given they've once AGAIN just enabled their platform to post lies claiming a rigged election when it was not! This is how democracies are overthrown with #misinformation Have media learned nothing? #Journo pay attention! WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/tech/meta-allows-ads-claiming-rigged-2020-election-on-facebook-instagram-309b678d?mod=e2tw

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