Summer Camps

Purpose

Screen Education's Digital Wellness Workshop for summer camps lays a foundation to help campers learn to self-limit their screen time. Built upon our model of smartphone addiction, the workshop raises campers' awareness of the problem, helps them see its impact in their own lives, and to create their own plan to address it.

workshop structure

Segment 1: Learn
First we teach campers about smartphone addiction --- why apps are addictive, how they cause compulsive screen use, and how this hurts them socially, cognitively, emotionally, and physically.

Segment 2: Reflect
We then have campers reflect on their own challenges with smartphones --- in writing and small group discussion --- and articulate how it impacts their own lives.

Segment 3: Plan
We finally have campers brainstorm in small groups on ways that they can gain greater control over their screen time, and fashion these ideas into a personal written plan.

Customize your workshop

We can customize the Digital Wellness Workshop to match your preferences. For example, we can adjust the duration, topic coverage, degree of interactivity, and balance of large-group and small-group activities --- or, accommodate any other request you might have.

for Camps with, and without, n0-Phone policies

Built on our research with camps & schools

Our workshop is based upon research we have conducted on smartphone use with kids at Camp Kern, Camp Ernst, and Camp Livingston --- research we have presented at the 2017 and 2018 Ohio American Camp Association Conferences. It also is informed by research we have conducted with schools, and is structured around a model of smartphone addiction that we have developed and presented at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference, and the Wisconsin Educational Media & Technology Conference. Review our press release summary of our research with Camp Livingston, or the detailed report.

learn more...

To learn more about the Digital Wellness Workshop for Summer Camps contact Michael Mercier at (513) 535-7377, or, at Michael.Mercier@ScreenEducation.org.