Post: Technology -- and Hope -- Can Empower Kids to Save the Earth
Technology -- and Hope -- Can Empower Kids to Save the Earth
Penguin Young Readers Group & Rodale will be co-publishing a young adult adaptation of Al Gore’s Inconvenient Truth in April. It's subtitled “The Crisis Of Global Warming” and includes "kid-friendly" changes, photos galore, and fun new chapter titles like, “Denial Ain’t Just a River in Egypt.”
The "inconvenient truth" for Gore is that Generation M (media/millennials) need a huge dollop of HOPE upfront and some new media next steps if his tome’s going to fly with his intended 11 & up crew.
I say harness the energy at Global Kids. Get Voices of Youth at Unicef onboard. Have Gore’s avatar do a book signing in Second Life.
Get kids excited with interactive sites and new media tools like Shuru that leverage the viral potential of the Internet and mobile phones spreading social cause messages and empowering real world actions.
Read this entire entry on the Shaping Youth blog, where it first appeared. For Common Sense Media's recommended Earth Day sites, click here.