Sept. 23, 2009 Ah, the first day of fall... An apt time to think about leaves, forests, colorful worlds and transitions into autumn when kids spend more time indoors and parents start hand-wringing about media management, homework hazards and how to balance back to school commitments with screen time online. The National Parenting Publications Awards has bestowed their … [Read more...]
Fun in the Forest Earns Dizzywood Online A NAPPA Gold Award!
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Media Literacy, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: age 8-12, barking robot, citizenship, digital kids, Dizzywood, Dizzywood tree planting, Izzy-Neis, Kids, NAPPA Gold, National Parenting Publications Awards, online gaming, parenting, Scott Arpajian, SmartyCard, tweens, Virtual-Worlds, Virtual-worlds-kids-ethics, youth
Are “Game Cheats” a Misnomer? Kids, Ethics & Virtual Worlds
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 their eco/animal endangerment efforts in their inspiring tween world soon!) As I was recapping the Ypulse Mashup session on kids’ virtual worlds, we zinged off on a variety … [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