Ypulse Essentials: PBS Kids' 'Lifeboat To Mars', Online Student [Free?] Speech, Jersey Shore Style
Posted by meredith on 02-05-2010
PBS Kids launches 'Lifeboat to Mars' (an online simulation game to teach kids about biology. Also Sesame Workshop unveils the Elmo Monster Maker iPhone app) (USA Today) (Mashable)
- Barnes & Noble enlists Common Sense Media (to power a new "For Parents" section on the children's section of its site. Plus a young publishing professional offers the "Gen Y reaction" to Macmillan’s piracy plan. Hint: it's analogous to the Gen Y reaction to record companies. Also Scott Westerfeld’s Leviathan wins the 2009 Aurealis Award in the category of best young adult novel) (Digital Book World) (SLJ)
- Get more 'Enchanted' (Disney sets a sequel for next year. Plus controversy stirs in the comic book community with talk of continuing the "Watchmen" franchise ) (Bleeding Cool)
- Does online student speech (fall under the first amendment off-campus? With conflicting precedents, the issue seems ripe for the Supreme Court. Also young TechCrunch contributor Daniel Brusilovsky learns some hard truths with his first scandal. And All Things Digital reviews PBS' 'Digital Nation' ) (Valleywag) (Wired)
- Participation points (five tips on creating a "movement" [read engagement] when marketing to Gen Y. Also more on the rise of QR codes. And the limitations of GPS location apps like Foursquare) (MediaPost, reg. required) (GenDigital) (BusinessWeek via Mobile Behavior)
- Rise in student suicides in India (tied to academic pressure. Also Yale students kick off Sex Week to raise awareness of sexual health issues) (CNN) (US News & World Report)
- Emma Watson (beats out Cameron Diaz as Hollywood's highest earning female actress. Not bad at 19. Plus will female Millennials close the gender pay gap?) (The Star) (CBS)
- Teens aren't irrational thinkers (or any more so than adults, according to recent series of studies. Plus schools in the UK criticized for distributing pregnancy tests and other sexual health services to girls. Also FDA says candy-like dissolvable tobacco will appeal to kids and young adults) (Slate) (Telegraph) (Washington Post)
- The [other] Simpsons (are coming to Nickelodeon. Joe Simpson, father to Jessica and Ashlee, signs a deal for a show loosely based on his musical family. Also Disney XD signs up for a second season of "Zeke and Luther." And apparently Jersey Shore-inspired style is catching on with the kids. Hmm) (THR) (Variety) (AP via Yahoo! News)
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February 5th, 2010 at 12:35 pm
Regarding the Free Speech of students:
The Supreme Court meant the disruption-standard for on-campus speech.
If they let schools punish students for off-campus speech, on the grounds that students later talked to each other in class about the subject instead of paying attention in class, then they can punish students for:
a) Exposes of wrongdoing by school officials
b) Criticism of the US president
Students should be able to write criticism of school officials and other government officials without being punished.