Three Moving Targets: Insights from Harvard’s Digital Wellness Lab
We’re exploring the landscape of students, smartphones and social media, asking global experts to explain the hard truths about the mental health decline among youth on campuses worldwide and inspire us with evidence-based strategies that will turn the tide.
Making space for human connection makes space for more joy
Real conversation nurtures, educates, and invigorates; there isn’t much for our well-being that it can’t do. A good and loving conversation is an express route to joy.
10 Tips for a Digitally Well Campus
Digital wellness is a positive state of mental, physical, and social-emotional health pursued through intentional, authentic, and balanced engagement with technology and interactive media. Download our 10 Tips for a Digitally Well Campus to kick off the conversation with your team.
Students are ready. Are we?
Instead of leaving our next generation with problems to solve, how can we make sure they inherit a world that we don't have to apologize for?
Is a cell phone ban really the answer?
We’ve been seeing more and more instances of digital overwhelm in the news. In the Netherlands, the education ministry has decided to ban the use of portable digital devices when not specifically required for learning. Is this the answer?
How we work with you
We’re designing approaches to technology that support finding joy in missing out on mindless social media consumption and smartphone distraction. Here’s how we can work with you.
Transforming campus culture through common rooms
The JOMO common room intervention is helping build new student social norms by making it okay to not be on your phone.
The smallest change can have the biggest impact
Digital well-being must be a strategic priority for schools. Here’s how we can help.
Our layered approach is working
Thanks to the distinctive JOMO campaign look, students are connecting the dots between the original in-class videos to the phone boxes to the residential challenge - all reinforcing the core messages and learning outcomes.
CBC News —TikTok Time Limits Too Little, Too Late
Will TikTok’s new Time Limit for teens work? JOMO(campus) CEO Christina Crook on CBC News.