Digital Wellness is Physical Wellness

Digital Wellness is Physical Wellness

By Kerry Gallagher This educators’ series on digital wellness is being published in partnership with MASCD. Physical wellness is often associated with sleep, nutrition, and exercise but your technology habits are also having an influence. As you read in the...
What is Digital Wellness?

What is Digital Wellness?

By Kerry Gallagher This educators’ series on digital wellness is being published in partnership with MASCD. Educators are surely familiar with the term “digital citizenship.” We are familiar with coaching and modeling for our students the ways toward acting as...
Tips for Dealing with Teen Sexting

Tips for Dealing with Teen Sexting

Also see: Teen Sexting: Quick-Guide for Parents and Teens “Sexting” usually refers to the sharing of sexually explicit images via mobile phones, but it can happen on other devices, too. First of all, research shows most teens don’t share sexually explicit images. And...
ReThink Founder on How App Promotes Kindness & Decency

ReThink Founder on How App Promotes Kindness & Decency

ReThink founder and CEO Trisha Prabhu on what motivated her to create the app by Larry Magid ReThink founder Trisha Prabhu is on a mission. The 20-year-old Harvard student, who created the first version of the app when she was 13, is out to “help cultivate the...
Safer Internet 2021 Day Goes Online

Safer Internet 2021 Day Goes Online

Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, Kamala Harris and Larry Magid at 2015 event Click here to ‘Get Involved’ in Safer Internet Day By Larry Magid This post first appeared in the Mercury News Last year, on the second Tuesday of February, about 300 high school and...
Parent, Educator & Youth Guide to LGBTQ Cyberbullying

Parent, Educator & Youth Guide to LGBTQ Cyberbullying

By Warren J. Blumenfeld, Ed.D. Download Free Guide (PDF) All young people deserve to grow up in a world where they are accepted, loved and treated with compassion, but sadly, that’s not the case for everyone. Some young people are vulnerable to bullying,...