Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Education: Lesson: Media Balance Is Important
[Free Registration/Login Required] In this lesson, students consider the feelings of themselves and others when making decisions about when, where, and how much to use technology. Includes slideshow, video, lesson plan, song and lyrics,...
Common Sense Media
Common Sense Media: Device Free Dinner
Several resources to help parents and kids understand and communicate about limiting device use during family meals and social get-togethers.
Other
Wosu Public Media: Are You Digi Fit?: Ways to Unplug: Tips to Stay Balanced
This instructional activity teaches learners how to make good choices with their devices and games.
Childnet
Childnet: Screen Time & Healthy Balance [Pdf]
These quick activities around balancing screen time are designed for use with 7- to 11-year-olds but can be easily adapted for other ages.
Other
Her Emobility: Smart Transportation: Smart Transport Systems: An Intro
In large cities, transport is becoming a growing challenge, both for commuters and for city officials who want to improve efficiency, reduce pollution, and reduce frustration for drivers and commuters. Smart transport systems use new...
University of California
Greater Good Science Center: What Makes Technology Good or Bad for Us?
How technology affects our well-being partly depends on whether it strengthens our relationships. This article provides a brief academic look at how technology use may be impacting our relationships with one another.
Discovery Education
Discovery Education: Technology Its Benefits and Negative Effects [Pdf]
In this lesson, students consider advances in technology over the past several hundred years and the positive and negative impacts these advances have had on human beings and the natural world. Note: The video referred to in the lesson...
Other
Bctv: Technological Influence on Society
A short article that discusses how technology has helped society in the areas of learning and communication and the negative impacts that mobile technology has had. (Published Nov 7, 2019)