I opened my Google alerts today and found an article from Psychology Today on mobile technology and corporate culture, which reinforced my own view from recent experience that the ease and automatic nature of email and text to communicate while planning (either a family event or something in the larger community) leaves something of the … Continue reading
Author Archives: Mary Rothschild
Technology and Media in Religious Education?
Yes, that’s a question mark. Education in American society is at a watershed moment evidenced by “flipped classrooms,” synchronous and asynchronous online learning and the exchange of resources and information via social media and Google tools. Then, there’s “gamification.” Religious education is no exception and there’s no doubt, as Bud Horell points out in his … Continue reading
Video Games: Whence Do they Lead?
This is one of those posts that address pieces that have appeared in the media and I didn’t address at the time. July 2, 2011: Virginia Heffernan’s piece How Games Steer Us Through Life appeared in the Opinionator section of the New York Times. I’d like to bring a few things to light about this … Continue reading
Lillian Firestone, Author of The Forgotten Language of Children
Link to transcript Excerpts from the book (not included in the transcript are read at the end of the recording The work described in The Forgotten Language Language of Children: A Journey in Living Authentically is based on the ideas of G. I. Gurdjieff, a teacher who appeared in Europe in the early 20th century … Continue reading
Advertising / Commercialization / Girls / Media / Parents / Teachers
Girls’ Lockers: Moms and Marketers Stay Out!
When I read the October 9, 2011 New York Times Article “Middle School Girls Unlock a World of Their Own, in Miniature” my first reaction was – well, to squelch my first reaction – repulsion. Taking offense at school locker decorations (and companies creating demand for certain kinds of “locker furnishings”) might mean I’m a … Continue reading
Mary Catherine Bateson on the “Age of Active Wisdom”
Listen to Mary Catherine Bateson speak about her latest book: Composing a Further Life: The Age of Active Wisdom It may seem counter-intuitive to speak about the later stages of life on a site dedicated to addressing the need for intentionality about media and young children. Mary Catherine Bateson, however, sheds light … Continue reading
Richard Lewis on Seeing Children
Richard Lewis understands how to see children, to come under the influence of a focused attention with them so that he can facilitate the journey into their own imaginations and develop their own voices.He also knows the results of the alchemy of that attention: poems and exchanges that show how children, and all of us, … Continue reading
Screen-Free During Passover and Holy Week
Next week, April 18-24, is both Screen-Free Week, and a week that is sacred for both Jews and Christians. This convergence presents a unique opportunity for members of those faith communities, as well as others who perceive spring as an appropriate time for renewal, to go on a “technology and media fast,” to the extent that … Continue reading
Peggy Orenstein: What was (and was not) in “Cinderella Ate My Daughter”
Peggy Orenstein is gracious and open. In this transcript of my interview with her in late January, you’ll see that she does not stand above the fray. As a parent of a young child herself, she knows the pressures that are brought to bear by commercial interests and says that she didn’t realize how much … Continue reading
“Operation Childhood” in honor of Neil Postman
One of my regrets is that I never met or worked with Neil Postman, who died in 2003. Today would have been his 80th birthday. To me, he kept his eye on the ball – what was important in the whole conversation about media, messages, and culture. When I read one of his most famous … Continue reading
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