Resources for digital living
There’s no proven playbook for this highly digital world, and we’re all figuring it out as we go…
Grounded in the reality that the internet is here to stay, this is a collection of resources to help you (and your family) navigate your online life.
Free online resources
Common Sense Education
https://www.commonsense.org/education
Digital citizenship lessons for K-12
Educator development self-paced courses
Engaging with communities and families
Civic Online Reasoning
Lessons and assessments for building skills to evaluate online information.
Internet Matters
https://www.internetmatters.org/
How-to guides for parental controls
Digital Family Toolkit for personalized online safety advice
Center for Humane Technology
Youth toolkit for parents and educators helping young people navigate the social media environment
Resources for technologists
Nonfiction Books
How to Raise a Healthy Gamer, by Alok Kanojia
Helping parents set healthy boundaries with video games and help kids addicted to gaming.
This book is just one aspect of Dr. K’s work. Check out Healthy Gamer to learn more about coaching programs for gamers and resources for parents and clinicians.
Digital Minimalism, by Cal Newport
Declutter your digital life.
Stolen Focus, by Johann Hari
Why you’ve lost your ability to focus and how to get it back.
How to Break Up with Your Phone, by Catherine Price
Concrete methods to reduce your screen time.
The Anxious Generation, by Jonathan Haidt
The mental health of adolescents plunged in the early 2010s. Rates of depression, anxiety, self-harm, and suicide rose sharply, more than doubling on most measures. How the “play-based childhood" was replaced by the arrival of the "phone-based childhood" in the early 2010s, and what we can do about it.
The Sirens’ Call, by Chris Hayes
The most valuable companies in history have been built on harvesting human attention. How to reclaim our attention and what’s at stake if we don’t.