Tech Habit Challenge

How can I build positive habits around media and tech to support my well-being?

Grades

9–12

Time

45 mins.

What if we slowed down to consider our tech habits, including what we do that serves us well and what we might want to change? In this lesson, teens interview each other about their current tech habits, reflect on their own habits, and hear how others approach their tech habits. This ultimately helps them create a plan to achieve more balance.

This is one of four lessons in our digital well-being collections for middle school and high school. If time permits, we recommend teaching all four lessons, in the suggested order, to maximize impact.

Objectives:

Reflect on the role that media and tech play in their lives, both positively and negatively.
Use active listening strategies to help others reflect on their tech habits.
Develop a personal challenge to change a tech habit in a way that supports well-being.

Vocabulary Show definitions

digital well-being · habits

digital well-being – experiencing media and technology in ways that support one's mental, physical, social, and emotional health

habits – automatic routines or things we do, often without even really thinking about them

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This lesson was co-created with the Center for Digital Thriving at Harvard Graduate School of Education.

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Tech Habit Challenge

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Topics & Subjects 3

Lesson Plan

Part 1: What Are Habits?

Part 2: Tech Habits Interview

Part 3: Create a Tech Habit Challenge

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