How can we begin thriving with technology?
Let’s start having better conversations about technology that are both critical and optimistic. Our free, research-based resources were co-designed with youth, psychologists, and educators to help you provoke nuanced conversations, rethink your relationship with technology, and build digital agency.
They’re designed with educators (and curious parents) in mind, and are adaptable for other settings.
Less fear, more intention.
Less isolation, more support.
By replacing helplessness with agency,
and stagnant debates with better conversations,
We can begin to digitally thrive.
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8 Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-being
This 12-hour, self-paced course is designed for teachers, school counselors, and administrators. With eight enduring mindshifts, the course helps you move beyond tech panic and into empowering action.
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Explore all eight evidenced-based mindshifts, at your own pace (and with new AI content!).
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ALL EIGHT MINDSHIFTS
This poster-style printout serves as a handy guide to all eight mindshifts featured in the course.
FREE Videos SEGMENTS
The mindshifts, explained
Explore a sampling of our library of short videos from the course, spanning topics like the power of teen interviews, AI, and attention restoration.
A collection of free resources on AI in education, designed for educators navigating the messy realities of technology in schools.
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How generative AI is reshaping relationships in classrooms, and five free plays to help educators move from AI refs to AI coaches.
With Nearfield Listening Lab at In Tandem.
Three literacies (technical, market, and self) across three modes of agency (individual, collective, and proxy). The framework behind every AI practice.
Students connect their personal values to real questions about how to use AI in ways that reflect what matters to them.
Prompts that open conversations about when and why students feel pressure to hide their AI use, so it can be talked about in the open.
The class maps which uses of AI feel okay, uncertain, or over the line for a specific assignment, then decides together.
Students map one real moment of AI use: how they used it, how it felt, and what they learned along the way.
A group coins terms for the cultural shifts AI is creating to build shared language that makes it easier to talk about the many new experiences we’re having with AI reshaping our lives and learning.
A blend of research memos and reports sharing youth perspectives about AI for everything from school to emotional support.
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TEACHING DIGITAL WELL-BEING
This collection of free research and resources are designed to help youth and the caring adults in their lives explore ways technology intersects with their lives and well-being.
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Evidence-based resources to help youth thrive, and the research approach behind them.
What do we most value? How does tech help or hurt? A values sort (on the app or on paper) and a values vote start conversations about how tech supports or undercuts what we cherish.
Lesson plan with Common Sense Education.
Expose the design choices, like autoplay, notifications, and algorithms, that compete for our attention and compromise our digital agency. Includes a video and a reflection guide.
Lesson plan with Common Sense Education.
Spot the thought patterns tech can intensify (“They haven’t texted me back. They must be mad at me.”) and practice healthier self-talk. Includes a video, a glossary of seven traps, dot voting, and the Mind Shift Game.
Lesson plan with Common Sense Education.
Rethink tech habits through paired interviews, then try a short, specific habit challenge.
Lesson plan with Common Sense Education.
Help teens name the pressures (aka “grinds”) they face every day and practice self-care. Grounded in our national study with Common Sense Media and Indiana University’s Lilly Family School of Philanthropy.
Lesson plan with Common Sense Education.
This collection is for our fellow researchers and youth-voice advocates who want to engage young people in their work.
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Your all-in-one guide to teen advisory, from planning and recruitment to activities and making sense of what young people share. Made with Hopelab, Character Lab, and In Tandem.
Step-by-step examples of how Hopelab and CDT collaborated with young people to understand and amplify their perspectives on technology and mental health.
With Hopelab.
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See the research behind the resources
Every resource starts with listening to young people and the adults who care for them.