“Just as we teach our children how to ride a bike, we need to teach them how to navigate social media and make the right moves that will help them. The physical world is similar to the virtual world in many cases. It's about being aware. We can prevent many debacles if we're educated.” IfsWorldNeedsChildrenHelpingMovingSocialTeachCasesMediaOur ChildrenSocial MediaEducatedBikeNavigateVirtual WorldDebacles Author:Amy Jo Martin
“If, like many others, you are concerned social media is making people and cultures shallow, I propose we teach more people how to swim and together explore the deeper end of the pool.” PeopleIfsEndsTogetherCultureSocialTeachMediaConcernedDeeperSocial MediaSwimPoolShallowPropose Author:Howard Rheingold
“I felt pissed off because I realized that you have to teach people in a clichéd way how to be happy-and happiness has become too one thing in American media. Achieving happiness is not really about having a flat stomach and the best car.” PeopleWayFeltTeachOne ThingAchieveMediaCarI RealizedFlatsStomachPissed OffHow To Be HappyAchieving HappinessAmerican Media Author:M.I.A.
“I believe that part of what propels science is the thirst for wonder. It's a very powerful emotion. All children feel it. In a first grade classroom everybody feels it; in a twelfth grade classroom almost nobody feels it, or at least acknowledges it. Something happens between first and twelfth grade, and it's not just puberty. Not only do the schools and the media not teach much skepticism, there is also little encouragement of this stirring sense of wonder. Science and pseudoscience both arouse that feeling. Poor popularizations of science establish an ecological niche for pseudoscience.” FeelsFirstsBelieveChildrenLittlesFeelingsHappensSchoolI BelievePoorPowerfulEmotionWonderTeachMediaEncouragementThings HappenAcknowledgeGradesClassroomSkepticismThirstVery PowerfulNicheEcologicalStirringPubertySense Of WonderPseudosciencePowerful Emotions Author:Carl Sagan