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Social Math for Climate Change: Young People Have Never Experienced a Colder than Average Month

by Shannon Arvizu November 19, 2012 Framer Reads the News

With Hurricane Sandy slowing fading from the media’s limited attention span, it is time for advocates to “widen the lens” and tell a more persistent and compelling story about the effects of climate change. One way to do this is to use social math. Grist.org has a great social math example  based on the latest [...]

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Framing Digital Media and 21st Century Learning

by Michael Baran November 8, 2012 Framer Reads the News

Two new surveys released last week provide promising evidence that digital technology in classrooms is playing a positive role in children’s skill development. As children learn to navigate new technologies, they become more active in their learning, more self-sufficient as researchers, and more engaged in what they are doing. Subsequently, their higher order thinking skills [...]

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SWAMPED! FrameWorks’ New Launchpad for Learning

by Roshan Ghimire July 2, 2012 Framing Do's and Don'ts

When you hear the word “gaming,” what do you think about? For many people, gaming evokes images of couch potatoes and gory violence; of time wasted and disapproving parents. But we’re moving toward a world in which people will hear “gaming” and think “learning.” In our research on Digital Media and Learning, we at FrameWorks [...]

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Do We Need Different Messages for Influencing Policy Makers?

by Shannon Arvizu May 30, 2012 Framing FAQs

Influencing policy makers is essential for social change. Do we need different messages for policy makers? Do policy makers have different cultural models? Recently, in response to a presentation of the first stage of our descriptive research on Environmental Health, this question was sent from experts in the field to our research associates, Nat Kendall-Taylor [...]

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FAQs on Framing Environmental Health: Indigenous Perspectives

by Shannon Arvizu April 24, 2012 Framing FAQs

Recently, in response to a presentation of the first stage of our descriptive research on Environmental Health, three questions were sent from experts in the field to our research associates, Nat Kendall-Taylor and Eric Lindland. All three are critically important questions that we have encountered in other areas of research, and our responses pertain both [...]

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Framing Environmental Health: What Does the Public Think?

by Shannon Arvizu April 18, 2012 Framing in the Field

How can experts and advocates frame environmental health more effectively for widespread public support? How can we communicate this issue to help the public recognize system-wide solutions to protect citizens from environmental hazards like air and water pollution, extreme weather and climate change, threats to food safety, and poor quality housing? Our research shows that [...]

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How to Frame Climate Change to the Tea Party?

by Shannon Arvizu September 9, 2011 Framing in the Field

While this may come as not much of a surprise, a new study by the Yale Project on Climate Change Communication finds that the 12% of voters who identify as members of the Tea Party mostly dismiss global warming. The report entitled,  ”Politics & Global Warming: Democrats, Republicans, Independents, and the Tea Party,” reports how members [...]

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Framing Early Child Development: Resilience…it’s everywhere.

by Nat Kendall-Taylor August 25, 2011 Framing in the Field

If you’re part of the world of early child development science, policy and practice, you’ve undoubtedly come across the concept of “resilience”—it’s everywhere you turn. The next time you attend a presentation or are at a talk that deals with children and policy run a little experiment—count the number of times resilience is invoked, both [...]

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It’s Not a Fight When We Frame it Right: Toning Down the Fire

by Erika Rydberg July 19, 2011 Framing Do's and Don'ts

In our second installment on tone, we consider the role that the media plays in promoting the use of argumentative rhetoric on social issues. Deborah Tannen, author of the “The Argument Culture: Stopping America’s War of Words,” is a foremost expert on this issue. She is is a linguist, psychologist, and researcher and has looked extensively [...]

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A Framer Reads the News: Who Is Responsible for Ecosystem Collapse in the Ocean?

by Suzanne Lo July 12, 2011 Framer Reads the News

How do we communicate effectively about the changes occurring in our ocean ecosystems? The FrameWorks Institute is currently working with aquariums and zoos around the country as part of our Study Circle engagement on how to share this important story with the public. As in all Study Circles, participants learn how to deconstruct the news to [...]

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