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/

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Three for Thriving | No. 9 | Last week's news on youth, tech & well-being Welcome to the 9th installment of our newsletter and video series, Three for Thriving, where we share some the latest news on youth wellbeing+ tech.

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-...
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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-...

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We all need more laughter in our lives, so call a friend today, watch your favorite comedy, try laughter yoga or just look in the mirror & try a round (even if it's forced) of ha-ha-ha-ha!

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On a black background with a floral design with primarily purple flowers with splashes of white, yellow, and pink/orange flowers is the text centered: Technology is both...Helpful and harmful. Exhausting and energizing. Connecting and dividing. Technology is multifaceted, so our approach needs to be, too.

This resonates deeply with me: "We need a new conversation about tech that is both critical and optimistic."

Always interested in how school communities host these types of conversations!

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