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Innovation and research hub at @harvardeducation.bsky.social dedicated to creating knowledge and resources that help young people thrive in a tech-filled world
#DYK? Common Sense Media users get FREE access to our new PD course, Eight Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-Being, with code "CSE100".
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TeYRa AnDeRSOn Teyra’s project, MYA: IRL, is a youth-guided mini-series that captures the real complexities of growing up in a hyperconnected world. Co-created with teens, the series explores how digital life intersects with friendship, family, identity, and selfhood.
MiChaEL DaviS Michael’s project brings mindfulness and cyberpsychology into K–5 classrooms, developing tools that help kids build resilience, regulate emotions, and grow into mindful digital citizens.
GReGORY DePOW Greg’s project explores how young people can practice wise empathy to reshape their online experiences — engaging with others’ emotions in ways that foster joy, compassion, and authentic sharing rather than comparing.
ECY FeMi KinG Ecy’s project, Tech for Togetherness, is an interactive comic guide that blends Pan-African concepts with technology to offer youth fresh frameworks for community-centered digital thriving.
🎉Meet our 2025 Digital Thriving Fellows! From reimagining empathy online to blending Pan-African community concepts with digital life, four bold projects share one goal: helping youth thrive in a tech-filled world. ✨ Learn more 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/
#DigitalThriving #YouthVoice
FREE 1-DAY PD FOR EDUCATORS AI EXPLORERs’ CLUB WEDS. AUG 6 VIA ZOOM 11AM–6PM ET APPLY by July 18 to join the club. Space is limited.
#Educators! 🧭 Your #AI journey doesn’t have to be a solo trek.
Apply to join the AI Explorers' Club—a free, 1-day virtual PD session (Aug 6) to explore AI with imagination, intention, and digital thriving as your guide.
Apply by 7/18 → digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/ai-explorers... #AIinEducation
This week in Three for Thriving:
📱 Addictive screen use = real mental health risks
🤖 AI in therapy: helpful, harmful, or both?
📵 Checking in on LA's phone ban
🎤 Stories with youth voices on AI, misinformation & modern romance
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This week’s Three for Thriving unpacks:
📱🔄 ❤️🩹 New study links screen time + emotional struggles in kids
🎓 OpenAI wants “AI-native” campuses
🤔 Teens want to use AI ethically—but need clearer guardrails
These stories + more → centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
#youthmentalhealth
From Hollywood to TikTok, this week’s Three for Thriving unpacks shifting stories of adolescence, young people's growing reliance on AI “therapy,” and career pressure.
And #ICYMI: our Youth Insights Memo on #genAI.
Read more → centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
#youthmentalhealth
Teens aren’t waiting for adults to catch up with #GenAI.
Our new memo features 10 real-time youth insights—from pressure to cheat, to seeking emotional support, to styling outfits with AI.
Tech isn’t slowing down, and our understanding can’t either.
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The latest Three for Thriving:
🖊️ Blue books return to colleges
🚨 Congress called out on #youthmentalhealth
🤖 Stanford on designing AI for humans
Plus: free resources from CDT, Common Sense Education + @kqednews.kqed.org on design tricks → centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
This week’s Three for Thriving is full of signals—and shifts:
📉 UCSF links social media to rising depression
📵 Parents turn to alt devices
🤖 AI tools deepen classroom trust gaps
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This week in Three for Thriving:
🛡️ Kids Online Safety Act regains momentum
🎓 Rethinking school for an AI future
🧠 Media literacy with empathy
Plus bonus stories centered on youth voice!
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This week in Three for Thriving:
🤖 AI + loneliness
🎓 AI + academic integrity
📱 Teens, mental health + social media
🌟 Emily Weinstein & Sadie Sutton on supporting teens @nbcnews.com
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New Three for Thriving newsletter is out! It features stories on:
🤖 AI companions & teen safety
🏫 Mental health funding cuts
📉 Global dip in young adult well-being
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#YouthWellbeing #DigitalThriving
Teens + tech headlines are everywhere. But which ones are shaping the conversation? Introducing: Three for Thriving—a weekly roundup of news shaping youth well-being and tech.
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💜 Let’s make sense of this moment—together.
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Center for Digital Thriving Presents Our First-Ever Online Course for Educators...8 Mindshifts for Digital Well-Being
#Teachers are tired of playing defense with tech in the classroom. That's why we're introducing our new course, Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-being, to help educators move from tech defense to empowering action.
Enroll + use EARLYBIRD15 for 15% off: calendar.gse.harvard.edu/en/36YmkP6/g...
Center for Digital Thriving 2024 IMPACT REPORT Empathy over eyerolling Features assorted photos of the team and reports
Hi! We're new here👋. If you're new to our work, our 2024 Impact Report is a great place to start. We’re on a mission to help youth thrive in a tech-filled world—and to shape more critically optimistic conversations on teens + tech.
Read the report → digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/wp-content/u...
