Digital, AI & Creative Skills
Healthy Use And Boundaries
This lesson helps students build healthier digital habits. They look at attention, wellbeing, and boundaries, run one small boundary experiment, and write personal digital rules they can keep.
What you will learn
- Run a non-judgmental audit of your own screen habits using pickups, reason, and after-feeling.
- Understand that the pull you feel is engineered into the product, not a personal weakness, so you can stop blaming yourself and start changing the design.
- Design one realistic digital boundary experiment that is small enough to finish in one week.
- Write three personal digital rules that are specific, small, and tied to a time or place, so they are realistic enough to last.
What happens in this lesson
Chapter 1: Screen Habits Audit
Run a non-judgmental audit of your own screen habits using pickups, reason, and after-feeling.
What you make: A saved screen habits profile that records an estimated pickup count, top three apps, a rough decided-versus-habit split, and an honest after-feeling word.
Chapter 2: Why Phones Pull So Hard
Understand that the pull you feel is engineered into the product, not a personal weakness, so you can stop blaming yourself and start changing the design.
What you make: A saved digital wellbeing note naming the specific hook that pulls the student hardest, the specific app it works on, what it is costing them, and a one-sentence reminder that this was designed, not a personal flaw.
Chapter 3: One Small Experiment
Design one realistic digital boundary experiment that is small enough to finish in one week.
What you make: A saved boundary experiment plan naming one specific experiment, the exact rule in one sentence, the start and end dates, and one concrete thing the student expects to notice if it works.
Chapter 4: Rules You Can Keep
Write three personal digital rules that are specific, small, and tied to a time or place, so they are realistic enough to last.
What you make: A saved personal rules note containing three rules written in the what-when-where format, plus a specific place the student will put them so they are visible in daily life.
Chapter 5: Boundaries In Real Life
Design and evaluate a boundary system for a real situation where your phone is useful, but also likely to pull you off task.
What you make: A saved boundary system note naming one real-life situation, the friction points in it, the boundary rule, the exception rule, and one reflection on what changed after trying it.
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