Ypulse Essentials: YouTube EDU, Media Literacy Lands In High School, Management 2.0
Posted by meredith on 03-27-2009
A spoonful of satire helps the newscast go down (recent polls show more Americans prefer to tune into Stewart and Colbert than traditional anchors. Motivating young people to stay well informed? I'd say that's good news) (AdWeek)
- YouTube EDU (a new channel on the video hub offers campus tours, lectures and other college news for prospective college students. Does this spell trouble for smaller sites in the same biz? Plus, Flat World, an open source textbook company, gets funding to make college textbooks available free for students online) (ReadWriteWeb)
- The Air Force presents "The Circuit" (the latest in rebooted recruiting strategies, a new branded web series that will air on YouTube, Discovery Channel and Star Trek fan sites. Also, more ad placement on school supplies) (Ad Age, reg. required) (New York Times, reg. required)
- Blast from the past (inspired by the iconic photo that appeared 50 years ago in Life magazine, college students in California attempt to break the record for most bodies crammed into a phone booth. In other stunt news, officials are called in at a Boston high school after "vampire" rumors start spreading around campus. Three guesses for what pop culture phenomenon will be blamed for the incident) (AP) (Boston Globe)
- Binge drinking on the rise for teen girls in the UK (according to a recent survey. Also, 13 year-old Alfie Patten of recent tabloid fame is revealed to not be the father of the child that the 15 year-old mother claimed was his) (BBC News) (Dlisted)
- Summer jobs help at-risk teens (lowering their likelihood of becoming suicidal. A bittersweet statistic, given the dearth of jobs this year. Plus, a new mobile app for tracking the mental health of young people suffering from depression) (Science Daily) (Cellular News via NGT)
- Media literacy finds a place on high school currlculum (more school districts begin to recognize that the ability to navigate new media isn't so much industry-specific, as a good set of "transferable life skills." Word. Plus, ProjectGirl, a campaign to help improve teen media literacy, is selected as one of the teen philanthropists that will be funded by Best Buy and Ashoka's @15 . Also the teen-founded Teens in Tech acquires the Youth Blogging Network. Thanks Andrea! ) (Variety) (SLJ) (TechCrunch)
- Virtual goods trump physical prizes on SmartyCard (the educational game for tweens we profiled earlier this month reports that kids are picking the virtual incentives 85% of time. Can't beat that instant gratification) (Virtual World News)
- A millenial calls his generation morally bankrupt (a skeptical high schooler stirs up a debate — 48 comments and counting– by voicing his doubts about his "coddled" ethically misguided peers. And more cities begin enforcing daytime curfews to target teens who are cutting class) (American Thinker) (Wall Street Journal)
- More on "Management 2.0″ (and how businesses can attract and keep a generation that grew up online. Plus, the "rock star of social networking research" danah boyd is interviewed in School Library Journal) (WSJ)
Categorized under: Ypulse Essentials
March 27th, 2009 at 12:37 pm
RE "In Dallas, the city council will vote next month on extending an existing nighttime curfew for minors to make it broadly illegal for minors under 17 years old to appear in public without adult supervision during school hours"
The schools can give the students lower grades and call their parents if they miss class.
This shouldn't be a police matter.
Kids and teenagers shouldn't be subject to questioning by the police just for being in public.