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Teenagers and Social Participation

Museum 2.0

Many teens love to perform for each other. First, teens often have incredibly tight social spheres. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger." More so than teens in the past, teens today have grown up in a culture of fear around engagement with strangers. They like to do and touch and make.

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Cleaning Off My Desk for the New Year

Have Fun - Do Good

Teens as Good Samaritans The November/December issue of Psychology Today has a brief article called, "The Making of a Good Samaritan", about the benefits of community service requirements in schools. Because many of the armed gangs are into his music, they will allow him to enter territory where other aid organizations are not allowed.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

” Presented by filmmaker Chelo Alvarez-Stehle, SOS_Slaves aims to raise trafficking awareness in teens while empowering them with the tools to take responsibility and speak out against this issue. While some press on with the increased difficulty, in Simon’s play testing, some quit playing the game altogether.

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Groundswell Book Club Part 1: Listening

Museum 2.0

I watched many entertaining shorts featuring students explaining exhibits to the beat of popular and illegally uploaded music. When I watch the videos teens created at the Exploratorium and post on YouTube, I see the aspects of the exhibits they thought were most important to share with their classmates.

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[VIDEO] How To Lead And Manage In Our New Nonprofit Work Reality

Bloomerang

So I can tell y’all that stuff, y’all, but I’ll tell you my most important job and how I really, really learned to hone my leadership skills was as solo mama to this teen who, my friends, she has the mack daddy of all summer jobs. Do y’all know what that is? What is the mack daddy of summer jobs for young people?

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What Do the Reading Habits of Teens Have to Do With Your Donor Acquisition Strategy?

Connection Cafe

By Scott Gilman : Louisville Cardinals, horse racing, nonprofits, music, movies, various rants. So this is where that leaves us : fewer people (at least teens) are reading for pleasure, and we can assume (like adults) that they are seeking information and stimulus elsewhere, probably through a mobile device. Writing for Mobile.

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