Aug. 25, 2016 Update Celebrate 100 Years of our National Parks with FREE admission today! In honor of this centennial milestone, a quick roundup of children's media designed specifically to get kids OUTSIDE to play outdoors in nature and learn eco-literacy lessons for life. Which media would you add that boosts kids knowledge and curiosity about the environment, wildlife … [Read more...]
Can Digital Kids Click With Nature, Wildlife?
Filed Under: Mobile Media, Apps & Gaming Tagged With: Children and Nature, compassion for animals, Defenders of Wildlife, digital kids, digital technology and outdoor play, eco literacy, Environmental Education, environmental stewards, habitat loss, nature apps, nature deficit, NCLI, No-Child-Left-Inside, NWF, play outdoors, tech and nature, TiltWorld, wildlife, wildlife encroachment, World Wildlife Fund
Meaningful Media for Father’s Day: My Daddy Taught Me To…
June 13, 2010 One week from Father’s Day and media is awash with ubiquitous tie and techie ads for Father’s Day finds. Meh. Better ideas? Experiential fun for memories in the making... How would YOU fill in the blank, “My Daddy Taught Me To…?” It’s no secret I’m a water rat and an island girl who spent much of childhood splashing in the surf or sprawled on one of Hawaii’s … [Read more...]
Filed Under: EcoKids-Environment, Emerging trends & STEM, Interactive Games, Marketing Shaping Youth, Media Literacy, People Shaping Youth, Positive Picks, Pro-Social & Positive Picks, Shaping Youth Tagged With: activism, aquatic, books with meaning, clean water, coastal stewards, daddy bloggers, Dads, dolphins, Elf-Island, Father's Day, fatherhood, Fathers Day 2010, gaming for good, GoodQuests, Green media, Green-Media-Youth, Gulf oilspill kids, healthy-planet, Joe Tomarchio, Joseph Tomarchio, Kids-Nature, male penguins, marinelife, meaningful media, My Daddy Taught Me to Surf, nature, Nature-Deficit-Disorder, NCLI, Ocean Conservancy, oil spill, Papas, Parenting papas, Richard-Louv, Ridley turtles, Sea Turtles, seahorse fathers, sealife, surfing, Surfrider Foundation, Taught Me To Books, TaughtMe2, virtual world wildaid, waves, World Wildlife Fund, Wyland, Xeko