Teacher Seminars

Teacher Seminars/Webinars

Schools are struggling to address digital distraction among their students. Screen Education offers four presentations to assist teachers in this quest.

How To Make
Social Media Less Toxic

There's something about interacting online that makes it easy to cross a line and have toxic exchanges that cause anxiety, depression, physical altercations, and, occasionally, attempts at suicide. In this presentation we help teachers understand the characteristics of social media that facilitate this toxic interaction, contributing cultural factors, obstacles to addressing the problem, and suggestions regarding how teachers can mitigate the problem.

How A Digital Detox
Benefits Young People

A digital detox is a period of consecutive days with little-to-no access to digital devices. Our 7 research studies on digital detoxes finds them to be enormously beneficial, and often transformational. In this presentation, first delivered at the Ohio Educational Technology Conference, we review our research on digital detoxes, identify the stages of a detox, explain how to plan a detox for optimal benefit, describe their healing benefits, and suggest ways to help students experience a digital detox.

Digital Distraction At Work & Its Implications for Education Today

Our research finds US employees spend 1.4 to 2.5 hours each workday accessing digital content unrelated to their job. This decreases productivity, creates conflict, and causes accidents that injure, kill, and destroy property. Schools that wish to prepare students for their work future must begin to teach them how to self-regulate their inappropriate recreational phone use. In this seminar we present our astounding findings on digital distraction in the workplace, and use this to inspire schools to make self-regulation of smartphone use a virtue.

How To Create A Digital Wellness
Classroom Culture

This seminar helps teachers understand how to help students overcome digital addiction. It reviews the causes and consequences of digital addiction, how to create a classroom culture that raises students' consciousness of their tech addiction, how to influence their school to address digital addiction, and how to involve parents. We've presented this seminar at educational technology conferences, as a keynote at Hiram College's Tech and Trek Conference, at Education Service Center meetings, district-level in-service teacher training, and at schools.

Learn More...

To learn more about scheduling a seminar, in-person or via webinar, contact Michael Mercier at [email protected], or at (513) 535-7377.