RE: Targeting Kids
This article is talks about what we all know is happening around us. The thing is, its not that we don’t want to do anything about it, it’s that we cant. I have heard of all the things to do, no shopping day, no buying gas day, anything of the sort don’t work. As long as I have been in university there has been days like these and I have tried to follow along with it, but nothing changes.
The point is that the media is much too strong. They know how to develop things that draw the students in and make them want-to-want things. Half the times these students don’t even know why they have decided to want these new things but they need them.
I think that the only way we are going to help them is to encourage them to be themselves and trust them to be able to make proper decisions in the end. If we inform them of the choices that they have and teach them to look at advertising through different eyes then they should be able to figure things out for themselves.
posted by ~ dalyce @ 12:52 PM
1 Comments:
Some good thoughts.
I would agree that we need to encourage students to be themselves and to promote safe places for them to discover themselves in. I agree with AJ when she suggests that we need to go further with encouragment but to give them opprotunities to discuss what is around them. I think this even needs to go further because I believe we need to teach our students media literacy in order for them to be media wise and be able to make good and healthy decisions in their own lives. I think that parents and educators play a huge role in the development of students/children and I don't think we can always necessarily trust them to make solid and positive decisions, but we should be open with them about guiding them, and showing them possibilities.
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