For years now kids and teens spontaneously tell me how they feel like they spend too much time on screens. But many of them also tell me ways they work to cut down on screen time.
I have always found that when engaging with youth and teens about ways to prevent excessive screen time, it works extremely well to give examples of what other young people do. So this TTT could really help you in having a great conversation this week with youth in your life.
(*Remember to look for the printer icon on the left-hand side of this page and you can generate a printer-friendly version. Click any images you don’t want to print and they’ll disappear before printing. Then, you can bring the blog to the dinner table or wherever you can have a short calm conversation about tech with your children or students).
Last week at a screening near Chicago of Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER a high school boy raised his hand and said, “I try to get stuff done, but I keep being distracted by screen stuff, what can I do to prevent this?”
I responded by asking him a question, “I’m curious, is there anything you have tried?” (I always try to ask, in a very respectful tone and non-judgemental way, for ideas youth have on questions they have just posed. It not only gets their brain thinking of solutions – but so often the audience gets great insights from their answers). In this particular situation, the student said he could not think of anything offhand that he had tried.
I suggested a few that I had heard from other teens. And I am adding those and several others here:
Here are a couple of questions to get a conversation started for this week’s Tech Talk Tuesday:
If you want to host a screening of the movie in your community, please fill out this form.
**I wanted to share this great piece that Good Morning America did about Screeenagers NEXT CHAPTER. They came to our Seattle premiere event and interview Delaney and here daughter Tessa.
*We would love for you to share this TTT any way that works for you, whether that’s on social media or via a newsletter. If you want to send it out in your newsletter we just ask that you credit us and link to our website, and let us know at lisa@screenagersmovie.com.
Stay in touch with the Screenagers community on Facebook, Twitter and leave comments below.
Here is a video from the Screenagers YouTube Channel that talks more about this subject
For years now kids and teens spontaneously tell me how they feel like they spend too much time on screens. But many of them also tell me ways they work to cut down on screen time.
I have always found that when engaging with youth and teens about ways to prevent excessive screen time, it works extremely well to give examples of what other young people do. So this TTT could really help you in having a great conversation this week with youth in your life.
(*Remember to look for the printer icon on the left-hand side of this page and you can generate a printer-friendly version. Click any images you don’t want to print and they’ll disappear before printing. Then, you can bring the blog to the dinner table or wherever you can have a short calm conversation about tech with your children or students).
Last week at a screening near Chicago of Screenagers NEXT CHAPTER a high school boy raised his hand and said, “I try to get stuff done, but I keep being distracted by screen stuff, what can I do to prevent this?”
I responded by asking him a question, “I’m curious, is there anything you have tried?” (I always try to ask, in a very respectful tone and non-judgemental way, for ideas youth have on questions they have just posed. It not only gets their brain thinking of solutions – but so often the audience gets great insights from their answers). In this particular situation, the student said he could not think of anything offhand that he had tried.
I suggested a few that I had heard from other teens. And I am adding those and several others here:
Here are a couple of questions to get a conversation started for this week’s Tech Talk Tuesday:
If you want to host a screening of the movie in your community, please fill out this form.
**I wanted to share this great piece that Good Morning America did about Screeenagers NEXT CHAPTER. They came to our Seattle premiere event and interview Delaney and here daughter Tessa.
*We would love for you to share this TTT any way that works for you, whether that’s on social media or via a newsletter. If you want to send it out in your newsletter we just ask that you credit us and link to our website, and let us know at lisa@screenagersmovie.com.
Stay in touch with the Screenagers community on Facebook, Twitter and leave comments below.
Here is a video from the Screenagers YouTube Channel that talks more about this subject
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