View email in browser. To our digital thriving community,Today is the day that we can officially share with you… ✨ The Youth Voice Playbook ✨ We’ve been working this year behind the scenes to bring it to life: a free, interactive resource collaboratively produced by Hopelab, Character Lab, In Tandem, and our team at the Center for Digital Thriving. We created it because we want to help build a future where all young people can thrive — and to make that happen, young people need their voices...
6 months ago • 2 min read
View email in browser. To our digital thriving community,Happy August! We’re experimenting with a quote-led newsletter … let us know what you think! “We use [gen AI] for very creative purposes, not just cheating on homework.” “We use AI because we are lonely and also because real people are mean and judging sometimes and AI isn’t." "What do teens think adults should know about how they’re using GenAI?" That’s the question we asked more than 1,500 teens as we’ve kicked off a new strand of work...
8 months ago • 2 min read
View email in browser. In March, we introduced empathy over eye-rolling as a powerful way to upgrade your conversations with teens about tech. Here's our new sticker designed by our very own Beck Tench and Amber Kamilah. Get yours here. This month, we want to stay on this empathy train for a little while longer with something that happens to all of us: thinking traps. Thinking traps (sometimes called “cognitive distortions”) are exaggerated or irrational negative thought patterns. They’re...
12 months ago • 2 min read
View email in browser. Last time, we introduced you to 3 ways you can upgrade your conversations about tech: Acknowledge that our experiences with tech are multifaceted. Tech can be helpful, harmful, and everything in between… Use more textured metaphors. Saying that using tech is like using drugs doesn’t consider the social good that tech can offer… Don’t just ask about tech. Start with the person… View our last email for the full text. Now introducing the 4th upgrade to your conversations...
about 1 year ago • 2 min read
View email in browser. Expect magic - and chase it! We are the Center for Digital Thriving, a new research and innovation hotspot housed at Project Zero at Harvard Graduate School of Education. We’re on a mission to create knowledge and research-based resources that will help people - especially youth - thrive in our tech-filled world.There’s magic in the work that we can do together - and we’re officially inviting you to join us. This is our very first message to you and the 1,430 others who...
about 1 year ago • 1 min read