Digital Wellness in the Classroom: A Foundational Framework for Educators

Digital Wellness in the Classroom: A Foundational Framework for Educators

Content Warning 

This course includes sensitive mental health topics intended to promote digital wellness and awareness but is not a substitute for professional mental health care. Please carefully consider the nature of the content before enrolling.

Course Details

Course Type:

• Self-Paced, Fully-Facilitated
• Cohort, Fully-Facilitated

Course Length: 10 Hours

Course Access:

• Self-Paced: Each course includes 45 days of interactive access. If you purchase multiple courses within a single concentration at the same time, your total access period will be extended (e.g., two courses = 90 days, three courses = 135 days, etc.).
  
  Upon enrollment, your dashboard will initially display 45 days per course. By the next business day, your end date will be adjusted to reflect the correct total access period based on the number of courses purchased.
  
  After your enrollment period ends, you will continue to have read-only access to your courses.

• Cohort: Participants will follow a set start and end date, determined by their school district.

Course Description

This 10-hour course introduces middle and high school educators to the foundational concepts of digital wellness and their practical application in the classroom. Designed around a harm-reduction approach, the course emphasizes helping students build balanced, mindful, and informed relationships with digital media—rather than advocating for elimination.

Participants will explore the current research on how digital media impacts students socially, emotionally, and cognitively, and will learn strategies for guiding students toward more intentional, reflective digital behaviors. The course also includes sample lesson plans and prompts to help facilitate open, age-appropriate classroom conversations. The course contains three substantive units:

A Digital Wellness Overview

Explores the risks and rewards of digital media use among youth through a harm-reduction lens. Participants will learn to foster awareness, reduce alarm, and define what healthy digital engagement can look like.

Why Should Educators Prioritize Students' Digital Wellness?

Highlights the educator’s role in shaping students’ digital habits and values. This module examines the social and developmental case for addressing digital wellness in schools.

Integrating Digital Wellness Basics into the Classroom

Provides flexible, foundational strategies and lesson ideas to introduce digital wellness in any subject area. Emphasis is placed on reflection, adaptability, and fostering student agency.

Course Objectives

Participants will be able to:

• Demonstrate a well-rounded knowledge of digital media risks and rewards.
• Understand what it means for students to be digitally well.
• Develop insight into fostering the basic principles of digital wellness in the classroom.
• Integrate digital wellness basics into the classroom.

Additional Digital Wellness Courses Coming Soon!

Navigating Digital Discernment, Linguistics, and Identity in the Classroom

This course invites educators to explore how digital spaces shape students’ linguistic choices, their sense of self, and their ability to discern misinformation and disinformation in the online realm. Educators will learn strategies and practices that strengthen connections with their students, help them evaluate online information, engage with digital content responsibly and ethically, and reflect critically on their evolving digital identities.

Promoting Digital Responsibility and Safety in the Classroom

As students move across online platforms, the need for safe digital behavior becomes more crucial than ever. This course equips educators with the tools to guide students in making thoughtful choices about their online actions, privacy, and digital footprints. Through practical strategies, classroom-ready resources, and a strengths-based approach, educators will learn how to foster a culture of safety, respect, and accountability that empowers students to navigate the digital world with confidence.