Posts Tagged ‘The 405 Media’
Co-writing/directing a School Intruder Film with an Iconic Pulitzer Prize Winner – SDP#24
In the summer of 2016, David Perrodin “The Safety Doc” and Pulitzer-Prize winning author/producer David Obst toppled the established rhetoric narrative of school intruder cinema by writing a school intruder film based upon how most school intruder situations empirically complete – without harm to self or others.
Read MoreCAPTURED! A Look Back At The Bizarre Unraveling Of the Wisconsin Manhunt – SDP#23
One of the Midwest’s largest manhunts ended peacefully at a makeshift campsite in a remote area of Wisconsin farmland. Joseph Jakubowski, a Janesville, Wisconsin man accused of sending President Donald Trump a 161-page anti-government and anti-religious manifesto was uneventfully captured by law enforcement on the morning of April 14, 2017.
Read MoreMy Life in the Midst of a Manhunt – Navigating Armageddon – SDP#22
[podcast] David gives a vibrant inside-perspective of how he was literally at the center of what has unfolded into one of the largest manhunts in the Midwest. Working in a mile-long educational facility a mile from the fugitive’s home, Dr. Perrodin notes that the very first step is to consider the campus unsecure until facility…
Read MoreLogotherapy & Reclaiming Youth From the Existential Vacuum – SDP #21
Viktor Frankl’s Logotherapy is a relevant framework and also a confusing term as it makes one think of branding and not the Greek word logos, which is “meaning”. In this podcast, I share why it is important to make youth aware of Logotherapy as a perspective to counter the growing rhetoric of determinism and The Butterfly Effect that are eroding belief in free will and therefore distancing people from a sense of control over self or environment.
Read MoreDebunking the Butterfly Effect & Embracing Chaos Theory – SDP #20
The Butterfly Effect is a false premise of illustrating how small initial differences may lead to large unforeseen consequences over time. This is nothing more than cause and effect and yet the Butterfly Effect is spilling across the sciences as some belief that every event has a singular, infinitesimal known origin. It is absurd to propose, and yet to scaffold with a mathematical formula, a relationship between a butterfly flapping its wings in New Mexico as the beginnings of an eventual hurricane in China. Don’t succumb to such hype.
Read MoreDiscovering the Awesomeness of Multiplayer Video Games – Interview with Seann Dikkers, PhD – SDP #18
Dr. Dikkers regards video gaming the same as other media such as movies and music. It has become part of our society and just like heavy metal music, is not the causal factor of violent behaviors. In fact, as game play increases violent behaviors decrease. Seann examines digital game design and teaching and learning. What can we learn from video games to provide a meaningful experience in classrooms?
Read MoreTime to Expel Suspensions – Unpacking the School Discipline Debacle – SDP #17
Student suspension rates continue to drop across the United States. However, are we observing a genuine decline or the engineered result of creative new categorizing exempt from state and federal reporting?
Read MoreA Blind Man’s Amazing Stories about Personal Safety – Interview with David Hyde – SDP #15
As the poignant, often-humorous, stories map the intersections of blindness, safety and humanity, David’s words are threaded with introspection from a life of marked accomplishments, although humbly stated, such as creating statewide professional development programs from scratch or serving in essential roles on national organizations (not to mention the countless positive influences on colleagues and students).
Read MoreRepeal Gun-Free Schools Zones, Patriot Act Advantages; Vaccine for Mental Illness??? – SDP #11
I center this narrative on analyzing three recent school safety mass media articles to reveal how sensationalized headings fail to match the content of the articles, thus creating a disservice to readers and further eroding public trust in the mainstream media’s ability to accurately report safety news.
Read MoreMyths; Realities of Search and Rescue (SAR) Dogs & Their Handlers – Interview with Jennifer Fritton | SDP 6
I deem that this post will inform school administrators, staff, parents and families as what to expect in the event that search and rescue (SAR) dogs are involved in a search for a lost child. This blog post was developed, in large part, from an interview I conducted on December 14, 2016 with SAR dog handler Jennifer…
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