The Education Video Center’s EVC in Focus: November 24 2008. The issue features various youth projects, events and workshops in New York City for young film makers . The Educational Video Center is a non-profit youth media organization dedicated to teaching documentary video as a means to develop the artistic, critical literacy, and career skills […]
Video “The Commercialization of Childhood: Consuming Kids”
Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood throws desperately needed light on the practices of a relentless multi-billion dollar marketing machine that now sells kids and their parents everything from junk food and violent video games to bogus educational products and the family car. Drawing on the insights of health care professionals, children’s advocates, and industry […]
Extensive Television Viewing and the Development of Attention and Learning Difficulties During Adolescence
Children and adolescents in most industrialized societies spend an average of 2 or more hours per day watching television. Many youths who watch 3 or more hours of television per day spend as much time watching television in an average year as they do receiving classroom instruction. Most children and adolescents spend more time watching […]
American Academy of Pediatrics: Children, Adolescents, and Television
For the past 15 years, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has expressed its concerns about the amount of time children and adolescents spend viewing television and the content of what they view. The possible negative health effects of television viewing on children and adolescents, such as violent or aggressive behavior, substance use, sexual activity, […]
PBS Parents: TV and Kids under Age 3
PBS Parents article: By now, most parents have heard about studies that discourage exposing very young children to television. But the reality is that almost three quarters of infants and toddlers are exposed to TV program before they turn 2. So what exactly are the dangers? Are any programs or videos acceptable for infants and […]
Association Between Television, Movie, and Video Game Exposure and School Performance
In research article, authors Iman Sharif, MD, MPHa and James D. Sargent, MD found a strong, independent relationship between measures of exposure to media and poor school performance. The findings in this study add support to the recommendation that parents of young adolescents limit not only the amount but also the content of their child’s […]
KEEP Toolkit: Web Based Tools for Teachers and Students
The KEEP toolkit is a set of web-based tools that help teachers, students and institutions quickly create compact and engaging knowledge representations on the Web. With the KEEP Toolkit, you can: Select and organize teaching and learning materials to illustrate some of the critical aspects of teaching and student learning. Prompt analysis and reflection by […]
Climate Savers Smart Computing Initiative
Started by Google and Intel in 2007, the Climate Savers Computing Initiative is a nonprofit group of eco-conscious consumers, businesses and conservation organizations. The Initiative was started in the spirit of WWF’s Climate Savers program which has mobilized over a dozen companies since 1999 to cut carbon dioxide emissions, demonstrating that reducing emissions is good […]
Free Press National Media Organziation
Free Press is a national, nonpartisan organization working to reform the media. Through education, organizing and advocacy, we promote diverse and independent media ownership, strong public media, and universal access to communications. Free Press believes that media reform is crucial not just for creating better news and entertainment, but to advancing every issue you care […]
National Media Education Conference 2007: iPoDs, Blogs and Beyond
The National Media Education Conference 2007 on “iPods, blogs and Beyond: Evolving Media Literacy for the 21st Century” is a webpage of rich resources, detailing the highlights of the informative event. Videologs, RSS feeds, Flash, podcasts and innovations in media technology, important global trends and staying current with evolving media was some of the core […]
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