It’s free, and it’s online in its entirety. The show surveys the current kids-online situation—thoroughly, open-mindedly and frankly.
“Sure, there are dangers. But they’re hugely overhyped by the media. The tales of pedophiles luring children out of their homes are like plane crashes: they happen extremely rarely, but when they do, they make headlines everywhere. The Internet is just another facet of socialization for the new generation; as always, common sense and a level head are the best safeguards.”
Four decades ago, Joan Ganz Cooney and her colleagues created the gold standard for using mass media to educate children when they founded the long-running kids? program Sesame Street. Today, the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, the nonprofit research organization Ganz Cooney founded, is pushing for an overhaul of children?s media legislation that may prove no less far-reaching.
Pope Benedict XVI has called on the media to underpin its work with ethical considerations and do more to promote the "dignity of the human being".
The first thing we educators have to do to integrate literacy habits into our classrooms is to practice literacy habits as teachers and as master learners.
Advice from The Simple Dollar for parents struggling to avoid or at least minimize the impact of the powerful marketing forces directed at their kids. Ideas on how to avoid branded toys and other items and, as they grow, to explain how marketing works.
Darlington County School District held a free seminar Monday night on social networking sites such as Myspace.com and Facebook. com, for parents to learn more about the sites their children are visiting.
“We hope to establish a dialogue with parents,” said Diane Sigmon, director of technology in Darlington County School District. “These things (Web sites) are out there. We’ve got to help them (chi
Video from Dove's "real beauty" campaign showing the onslaught of ads a young girl sees from the beauty industry
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture
Back when Debbie Heimowitz was a middle schooler in Castro Valley, if you wanted to cut somebody down you talked behind her back. Now you post your putdowns on the Internet. Heimowitz, a 26-year-old grad student at Stanford, has made a film about this online cruelty.
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It’s free, and it’s online in its entirety. The show surveys the current kids-online situation—thoroughly, open-mindedly and frankly.
The first thing we educators have to do to integrate literacy habits into our classrooms is to practice literacy habits as teachers and as master learners.
Advice from The Simple Dollar for parents struggling to avoid or at least minimize the impact of the powerful marketing forces directed at their kids. Ideas on how to avoid branded toys and other items and, as they grow, to explain how marketing works.
Henry Jenkins is the Director of the MIT Comparative Media Studies Program and the Peter de Florez Professor of Humanities. He is the author and/or editor of nine books on various aspects of media and popular culture
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