Relive the magic from, “Educators in Conversation: Navigating AI with Agency”! 🪄
CDT gathered with local educators to slow down and make sense of what it means to navigate AI in schools right now.
Watch the full recording here → www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oe8R... #DigitalWellbeing #AI #AIinEducation
When it comes to teen mental health, we’ve spent a lot of time focusing on technology. “Youth Well-Being by Design” challenges that perspective to move beyond pulling the weeds to exploring the roots 🌱
Access it free via MIT's works-in-progress collection: wip.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/5w9fn5nm...
We’re back on! 🎉
Mark your calendars for Educators in Conversation: Navigating AI with Agency, now happening on Tuesday, March 10, 2026 from 5-6:30 p.m. ET.
This (free!) in-person session requires registration. To secure your spot, register here: digitalthriving.typeform.com/to/GWsU7fxL
1 week left! ⏳
The deadline to submit your letter of interest for our 2026-27 Digital Thriving Fellowship is Monday, March 9, 2026 at 11:59 p.m. PT.
Don’t miss the chance to connect with the Center’s diverse, supportive community of collaborators.
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Event postponed! 🌨️
In light of the storm we’re postponing this week’s event, Educators in Conversation: Navigating AI with Agency. Stay tuned for updates and the new date announcement!
🔗 Explore our free AI resources in the meantime: digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/imagine-ai-p...
Good news: more spots are now available! 👀
Educators, join us for an in-person convo on #GenAI, AI agency, and real classroom practice. Featuring CDT researchers & local educators.
🎟️ Registration is required: digitalthriving.typeform.com/to/hytfewau
#AIinEd
📣 Applications are open for the 2026–27 Digital Thriving Fellowship!
In a 24/7 digital world, young people’s sense of agency is constantly being tested. That’s why this year’s theme is Educating for Digital Agency.
To register for the info session + apply: digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/fellows/
New year, new course content 🎉
Our 8 Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-Being course now includes integrated content on #GenAI— designed to help educators move from AI panic to AI agency.
Ready to dig in? 👉 digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/course-for-e... Use promo code AIMINDSHIFTS for 25% off!
How might students use AI? Align on the Line helps classes map what’s okay, uncertain, or crosses a line—making AI experiences visible + values-driven.
Think: more shared reasoning, less refereeing!
⚡ Talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldi6...
🔗 Tools: digitalthriving.gse.harvard.edu/imagine-ai-p...
Last year we gathered at Troutbeck 🌲, a place shaped by history and filled with space for the future. ✨ Together we imagined new ways to describe the emerging experiences AI brings into our lives, from “chatplomacy” to “human signaling.” Grateful for this group and the conversations ahead. 💬💛
‘Tis the season of giving! This #GivingTuesday, we’re offering no-cost access to our 8 Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-being course. 🎁
Let’s keep giving! Tag someone who’d benefit from this opportunity in the comments.
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As #GivingTuesday approaches, we wanted to highlight the people who truly make this work worth it: the educators. 🙌
We’re offering no-cost course access so more educators can bring reflective, evidence-based practices into their classrooms. 💙
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We’re kicking off #GivingTuesday a little early this year … 🎁
We're thrilled to offer free enrollment to educators ready to shape digital thriving in their communities!
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Thanks to generous new funding, we’re able to offer no-cost access opportunities to our course: 8 Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-Being.💫
To apply, please complete the brief form below (just 8 to 10-minutes!). @givingtuesday.bsky.social #GivingTuesday
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It’s easy to miss the good news about youth well-being these days — but there are bright spots 🌱. Hopelab’s research shows what helps young people thrive: downtime, friend time, sleep, and faith in their resilience. Read more via Greater Good Magazine: greatergood.berkeley.edu/article/item...
#DYK? Common Sense Media users get FREE access to our new PD course, Eight Mindshifts for Teaching Digital Well-Being, with code "CSE100".
End #DigitalCitizenshipWeek by gaining fresh perspectives to support digital thriving for you and your students: calendar.gse.harvard.edu/en/36YmkP6/g...
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
Watch: centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
#DigitalThriving
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
Read → centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
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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!
Watch → www.loom.com/share/f5cb48...
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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
Read→ centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
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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
Watch + subscribe: centerfordigitalthriving.kit.com/posts/three-...
#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.
#youthmentalhealth
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...
