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Today I played the game “3 Foot Ninja” on the MilkRocks! website. This is the website advertised on school milk cartons in grades K-12 throughout the country. Well, I wasn’t too good at the game, and quickly died a gruesome death – with my red blood spilling out. Nice way to start the day. I [...] This weekend I spent time thinking about Milk Media and the Milk Rocks! campaign in schools. (See previous posts “The Brawl Begins” when Milk Media meets my son and Troublemakers and Peacemakers for background information.) According to the representative I talked with, the video games and movie previews available on the Milk Rocks! website [...] Today I am thinking about ways to make a little trouble. I am talking about speaking up when you see something that concerns you and making noise to effect small changes. Yesterday I had a conversation with an executive at MilkMedia, the folks who brought us the Bakugan/Nintendo milk carton for schools. It was an [...] “THE BRAWL BEGINS AT WWW.BAKUGAN-VIDEOGAME.COM,” reads the enticing invitation. “WIN A BAKUGAN VIDEO GAME AND NINTENDO Wii!” Driving in the car last week, one of my sons declared, “Mom, I learned about a new dot com today. Bakugan dot com. You can watch videos and play games.” I paused, then asked, “Where did you learn [...] I just got back from an incredible conference in New Orleans – the Coalition of Essential Schools Fall Forum. It was absolutely wonderful to meet so many practitioners who are finding ways (despite NCLB) to stay true to what is good for children. In the current political climate, this is no small feat! I’ll write [...] I just received a request to spread the word from CCFC (Campaign for a Commercial-Free Childhood). Here is what is going on… “In response to a complaint filed by CCFC in 2007, the Federal Trade Commission urged the Motion Picture Association of America—the self-regulating body of Hollywood movie studios that administers film ratings [...] Exciting days with Cousins’ Camp at the house this week! Fun, but also very busy! Not much time to write, but I have been thinking about my last post and the interview with James Gustave Speth. His ideas about the recession leading our country to reinventing our American Dream reminded me of a wonderful [...] Admittedly, I haven’t see the new Transformers movie released this week. And I have no plans to see it. From what I’ve read, even people who like these kind of action movies don’t like Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. From London to the US, the reviews are in, and the consensus is: skip it. [...] On May 14th I wrote about preparing children for life versus preparing them for standardized tests. http://empoweredbyplay.blogspot.com/2009/05/are-we-preparing-children-for-life-or.html Here is an update…my letter to the editor was published. Check it out at http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090526/OPINION/905260305/-1/OPINION03 ?alt=rss Share! (function() { var po = document.createElement(‘script’); po.type = ‘text/javascript’; po.async = true; po.src = ‘https://apis.google.com/js/plusone.js’; var s = document.getElementsByTagName(‘script’)[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(po, s); })(); Tweet President Obama, back when he was Senator Obama, ran a campaign ad that encouraged parents to turn off their televisions. I remember thinking, “Well, that may be a good start, but negative media images are literally EVERYWHERE these days!” Young children in this country are positively inundated with sexy, violent, and just plain ridiculous ads. [...] |
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