In her talk, Ali Carr-Chellman pinpoints three reasons boys are tuning out of school in droves, and lays out her bold plan to re-engage them: bringing their culture into the classroom, with new rules that let boys be boys, and video games that teach as well as entertain.
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Looking for K-12 tech data in schools and at home? Here's the latest Project Tomorrow report, loaded with helpful stats.
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"Want to know, which visual-centric social media is best for your content - Pinterest (an online scrapbooking site) or Tumblr (a micro-blogging platform)?
Well, this all depends on the type of content you will continually be sharing, your target audience and your established following on each network. No surprise here that teens love Tumblr.
Here are a few question to ask yourself and answers to help you decide which network will work best for your visual-content."
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"This isn't OkCupid or Tinder. This is trying to replicate how you would meet someone at a party.
There's no profile to set up. Facefeed doesn't link with any of your social accounts. You just log in, take a selfie, and put it out there in the world.
If someone thinks your selfie looks nice, that person can write you a message. If you want to reply, you can. If you don't, you can block that person forever.
And if you become friends with that person, you can add them to a friends list, so you can write to each other as often as you'd like."
Read more at Business Insider
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Kevin Bacon would like a word with you about '80s awareness.
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Noah, a short film that debuted at the Toronto International FIlm Festival, illustrates the flitting attention span and lack of true connection in digital culture more clearly than anything else in recent memory. (Warning: NSFW)
"These words are probably unfurling inside one of many open tabs on your computer screen. Perhaps one tab is for work, one is for chatting, and another is for Twitter. You probably even have some others open for no particular reason.
This is the way we receive information and the way we communicate now: constantly, simultaneously, compulsively, endlessly, and more and more often, solitarily. This strange new mode of living--and its indelible effect on our humanity--is perfectly captured in a new short film that debuted this week at the Toronto International Film Festival.
The 17-minute, mildly NSFW Noah is unlike anything you've seen before in a movie--only because it is exactly like what many of us see on our computers all the time. Created by Canadian film students Walter Woodman and Patrick Cederberg, the film begins when our high school senior protagonist types in the password that opens up his laptop, and the narrative takes place entirely on his computer screen.
It doesn't matter how far removed in age you are from the characters, if you are digitally savvy enough to be reading this, Noah will hit uncomfortably close to home."
Read the entire article over on FastCompany
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Earlier today, Twitter released some stats showing just how much of a global social media reach the Academy Awards really had this year.
According to the Twitter Media team, in a 12-hour period starting around the start of red carpet coverage:
Of course, the celebrity selfie was the absolute biggest moment of the night, and it has now been retweeted over three million times.
Here are the stats Twitter collected for the selfie that broke the internet:
- Seen by an audience across Twitter.com and Twitterâs mobile and desktop apps by 8.1 million people â a total of 26 million times.
- It was also embedded on 13,711 web pages. Those embedded Tweets were seen 6.8 million times by 5 a.m. ET on Monday.
- Together, the two make for a combined impressions figure of 32.8 million for Ellenâs Tweet.
Photo Credit: Ellen DeGeneres
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Ben Smith became editor in chief of BuzzFeed in 2011 when the website known for its listicles and cat photos got into the business of breaking news.
Smith, an early hire at Politico, immediately built a reporting staff. BuzzFeed's mix of news and frivolity attracts more than 130 million visitors a month.
âYou canât trick people into sharing things. They have to really like it and be proud to share it.â
During a talk at the Nieman Foundation, Smith discussed social media as a news distribution channel, the importance of editors, the evolution of beats, the new hegemony of the article as a unit of media, and the value of brevity and high-energy reporters.
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A new global research project conducted by Viacom International Media Networks (VIMN), surveyed over 6,200 kids aged 9-14 across 32 countries--one of the largest studies of its kind.
The âKids of Today and Tomorrow Truly Global Explorationâ study focused on what VIMN valls âlast wavers,â or the youngest Millennials, born between 2003 and 2008. The findings point to several key traits that shape these kidsâ world views and make them distinct from older members of this generational cohort.
Kids of today and tomorrow are more âweâ than âme.â
The youngest Millennials extend their positive spirit to also include a commitment to community and the wider world around them.
Advances in digital media play a large part in broadening horizons and inspiring kids to use the power they have at their fingertips in a positive manner:
However, they donât see this as anything out of the ordinary or think of themselves as âtechyâ:
Implications:
Kids of today and tomorrow are grounded.
Authenticity is a key value for kids today and they live with their feet firmly on the ground.
Kids of today and tomorrow are confident.
Todayâs youngest Millennials are overwhelmingly happy and optimistic.
Kids today are re-calibrating their sense of what it is to be stressed as well as happy: they have grown up in a world of constant change and global economic crisis â for them, this is the norm.
At the global level, these high levels of happiness, low stress and growing positivity are combining to form a âvirtuous circleâ of mutual support that helps kids create an overall sense of confidence.
Kids of today and tomorrow are simultaneously more and less sheltered.
The difference is very clearly defined: in the real world, they are much more sheltered than in the past, with parents restricting and controlling their interactions with everything. However, given advances in technology and access to a wide range of devices, there is often relatively little protection â kids have unprecedented exposure to global ideas and images.
Kids of today and tomorrow are proud to be.
The youngest Millennials are increasingly expressing a sense of affinity with their country. Their sense of national pride is growing stronger and they are more likely than six years ago to believe itâs important to maintain their countryâs traditions.
Methodology
This VIMN study is based on 6,200 interviews with the 9-14 age group (at the time of research, born 1998-2003, which we have defined as âlast waversâ within the Millennial generation) across 32 countries (Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, US, Canada, France, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Greece, UK, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden, Russia, Hungary, Poland, China, Japan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Philippines, Australia, New Zealand, India, Turkey, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Morocco, Nigeria and South Africa).
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Michael Shore, VP of Global Consumer Insights for Mattel, discusses research on traditional play vs. technology play. Has the app and tablet world changed the nature of play for kids today?
This video was shot at the 2014 NY Toy Fair by Scott Traylor from 360 Kid.
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Header Artwork by BT Livermore
Social Icons Courtesy of Davide Di Cillo
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