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Click on the video below. As you are watching it, we want you to think about the young children or students in your life and contrast the differences you see from when you were a child.

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Screen Time Rules For Kids | Let's Talk | NPR

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Take a look at your screen time in your settings! Take a look at your daily and weekly averages, what apps you spend the most time on, the number of notifications, and how many times you pick up your phone daily.

How do the number of hours/minutes you see make you feel?
Why do you think that the phone company added this feature to your smartphone?

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Take this opportunity to explore the following websites in becoming more aware of the effects, learn the differences between consumption and creation, and also things to replace excessive screen time.

How to Create Screen-Life Balance When Life Has Shifted to Screens: An article that describes consumption vs. creation with screen time.

The Negative Effects of Screen Time for Adults and Children: An article that explains the effects of too much screen time can have on your health.

50 Things To Do Instead of Screen Time: A great resource on healthy options that can replace your time spent on your phone!

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Click on the video below for an introduction to this lesson!

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Lesson objective: I can analyze my personal use of screen time and list 3 ways to promote a healthy relationship with screen time.

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Media Balance: "using media in a way that feels healthy and in balance with other life activities (family, friends, school, hobbies, etc.)"

Finding My Media Balance. Common Sense Education. (2021, February 8). https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/finding-my-media-balance#:~:text=using%20media%20in%20a%20way,school%2C%20hobbies%2C%20etc.)&text=media%3A,newspapers%2C%20phones%2C%20etc.

Digital Detox:  "person refrains from using tech devices such as smartphones, televisions, computers, tablets, and social media sites."

Cherry, K. (n.d.). The Benefits of Doing a Digital Detox. Verywell Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/why-and-how-to-do-a-digital-detox-4771321.

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Take the first quiz to further analyze your screen time usage and how it has an effect on your life! If you have a child at home, have them take the second quiz.

Am I Addicted to my Smartphone? : Click on the link to take a one-minute quiz and find out how addicted you are to your device.

Test your screen-time savvy: Here is an excellent quiz as an option to analyze a child's screen time.

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Take a look at our list of tips and suggestions you can use to digitally detox from overconsumption to help balance your screen time. Feel free to research using the websites provided below and/or your choice of other credible websites

1. Screens should be kept out of the bedroom.
2. Implement a media curfew a few hours before bedtime.
3. No phones out during family time (meals, playtime, reading time, movie time).
4. No phone usage in the car unless for GPS or music.
5. For children under age 2, no screen time (Choose instead unstructured play or human interaction).
6. Co-view programs with children and talk about the dangers.
7. Turn off as many notifications possible; try to only keep on text, emails, and phone calls (ie. turn off social media notifications)

Use these resources for more tips and suggestions that can be used to balance your screen time:

How to Make a Family Media Use Plan

Beyond Screen Time: A Parent’s Guide to Media Use

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Watch this screen recording to use as an example to help walk you through taking a quiz on your screen time, reflecting on your results, and applying it to create a media balance plan by listing 3 usable tips, in the comment section, that you could implement today!

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Click on the audio recording below that explains how you can reflect upon this lesson.

Please address the following questions in your Flipgrid reflection response:

What did you think about the results of the quiz?
Based on the 3 tips you saw yourself implementing, how realistic will these be for you to accomplish?
After your exploration of this topic, do you think that screen time is an issue in today's world? Why or why not?

Click on this link to Flipgrid!

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Here are some excellent resources that you can view to improve your understanding of supporting your students with their media balance.

Teacher Tips: How to Reduce Screen Time When School Is Online: How teachers and schools can manage screen time in their care.

Raising Awareness of Screen Use: An example lesson you can use in your classroom to raise awareness of media balance

Limit Screen Time: A resource with strategies can be implemented in schools and homes that can help limit screen time.

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Cherry, K. (n.d.). The Benefits of Doing a Digital Detox. Verywell Mind. https://www.verywellmind.com/why-and-how-to-do-a-digital-detox-4771321.

Finding My Media Balance. Common Sense Education. (2021, February 8). https://www.commonsense.org/education/digital-citizenship/lesson/finding-my-media-balance#:~:text=using%20media%20in%20a%20way,school%2C%20hobbies%2C%20etc.)&text=media%3A,newspapers%2C%20phones%2C%20etc.

Gewertz, C. (2020, December 9). Teacher Tips: How to Reduce Screen Time When School Is Online. Education Week. https://www.edweek.org/teaching-learning/teacher-tips-how-to-reduce-screen-time-when-school-is-online/2020/10.

How to Make a Family Media Use Plan. HealthyChildren.org. (n.d.).

https://www.healthychildren.org/English/family-life/Media/Pages/How-to-Make-a-Family-Media-Use-Plan.aspx.

Limit Screen Time. Action for Healthy Kids. (n.d.). https://www.actionforhealthykids.org/activity/limit-screen-time/.

The Negative Effects of Screen Time for Adults and Children - Blog - Valleywise Health. Blog. (2021, May 8). https://blog.valleywisehealth.org/negative-effect-of-screen-time-adults-children/.

npr. (2018, March 22). Screen Time Rules For Kids | Let's Talk | NPR. YouTube. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wtbdqIds_3c.

Parsons, H. (n.d.). Quiz: Are You Smart about Screens?: Brilliant Star. Quiz: Are You Smart about Screens? | Brilliant Star. https://brilliantstarmagazine.org/articles/quiz-are-you-smart-about-screens.

PhotoXpress.com, P. M. P. (n.d.). 50 Things to do Instead of Screen Time. Calgary's Child Magazine. https://www.calgaryschild.com/family-fun/activities/1786-50-things-to-do-instead-of-screen-time.

Team, E. (2019, January 25). "Am I ADDICTED to my smartphone?" Quiz. Time to Log Off. https://www.itstimetologoff.com/wp_quiz/am-i-addicted-to-my-smartphone-quiz/.