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Purpose

Screen Education's Digital Wellness Seminar lays a foundation that helps participants learn to self-limit their screen time.

Built upon a powerful synthesis of our own research and the research of others, as well as our proprietary model of smartphone addiction, our seminar gives participants a framework for understanding smartphone addiction, helps them see its impact in their own lives, and delivers guidelines for creating their own plan to achieve digital wellness.

We offer seminars for summer camps, corporations, schools and colleges. See below for details.

structure

Segment 1: How We Become Screen-addicted
First we use our smartphone addiction model to teach the mechanisms of smartphone addiction --- why many people find apps to be addictive, and how these addictive features cause us to compulsively use our screens.

Segment 2: How Screen Addiction Impacts Us
We then lay out the various ways that smartphone addiction --- that is, this compulsive use of screens --- impairs us. We specifically look at the social, emotional, cognitive, and physical consequences.

Segment 3: How We Can Address Our Screen Addiction
Finally we provide a framework participants can use to analyze their own issues with smartphone addiction, and derive the solutions that will address their particular issues, and that will work for them.

For Corporations

For Schools & Colleges

Our Digital Wellness Seminar for schools and colleges is based upon our research with teens, teachers, parents, administrators, and college students, and has been presented at the 2018 Ohio Educational Technology Conference, and the 2018 Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Conference.

Our Teen Smartphone Addiction National Survey/2018 research has shown that a very strong majority of young people want to curb their screen time, and that they know that phones, video, social media, and games are interfering with class time, homework, and learning.

Therefore, the seminar for schools and colleges covers the mechanisms of screen addiction, and the social, emotional, cognitive and physical consequences of compulsive phone use. But it then goes on to show how excessive smartphone use hurts academic performance, and provides suggestions on how address this.

Customize

If you are interested in customizing the seminar in any way, we will do our best to accommodate your request. You may want the seminar to be briefer, or to transform it into more of a hands-on workshop with time-out for reflection exercises. Or, you may like to have it less of a structured presentation, and more of a moderated open forum or town hall meeting. Don't be shy about proposing your idea, and we can work with you to make it happen.

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