The collective intelligence at the Program for the Future Conference may have fried my synapses, and short-circuited my braincells in overdrive... I had a full post ready to go saying 'I'm goin' out of the country for a jiff, back Tues.' but I couldn't find the dang thing, which is a sure sign I'm way too buried and need to 'escape' from the keyboard to get the heck out of … [Read more...]
The Great Escape: Shaping Youth Unplugged (Again)
Filed Under: Emerging trends & STEM, Media Literacy, Shaping Youth Tagged With: blog addiction, Britt-Bravo, family time, great escape, media deprivation, media overload, multitasking, present of presence, totally wired, Unplug Your Kids, wired worlds, workaholic
Get ‘Em Outside! Shaping Youth Heads for The Hills
May 17, 2016 Between this post about children's sensory atrophy and the positive practices of Vitamin N...nature, I feel compelled to send another shoutout on Twitter to "Get 'Em Outside!" (video embedded below) Kids faces beam with energy and fun making informal learning a 'vitamin E' for environment+ education...all in show-n-tell hands-on form. The excitement is … [Read more...]
Filed Under: Branding & Consumerism, Consumerism, Counter-marketing, EcoKids-Environment, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: Environment, GiggleBubble, Living Folklore, Media Unplugged, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, NCLI Coalition, No-Child-Left-Inside, Outdoor Education, Sustainability, teens, tweens, Unplug Your Kids