"TAA" project aims to deal with one of the most serious problems of today “technology addiction”.

The online survey prepared by project team revealed that technology addiction is also a big threat for our students. Nearly 500 students from partner schools participated in the survey and the results were considerable. According to our survey, watching TV is 60 % of the participants’ favorite free time activity. Only 13% of teenagers say they don’t play an online game which requires regular follow-up. What is more shocking is that almost %80 of participants say they feel themselves incomplete when their mobile phones are not with them. More than half of the teenagers feel they have to look at their mobiles’ screens frequently.80% of them admit they neglect their daily work because of internet , the percentage of participants who spend more than 2 hours on internet is again 80 %.The last but not least only 24 of the participants refuse to be a tech-addict.

Therefore, taking into account that nowadays children are digital natives and this aspect can affect on long term the health of our society, schools are asked to cooperate with parents (who feel overcome) and to give a helping hand to students to find a balance and to set boundaries when using technologies.

Researchers in the field of technology addiction point out to four main important approaches in school to address the pitfalls implied by the technology addiction in adolescents:

1. Increased awareness of students regarding digital balance.

2. Use classroom-management tools to help limit digital distractions.

3. Making classroom technology integration deep and engaging to minimize the potential for distractions.

4. Providing guidance to parents.

To accomplish that, the 6 partner schools decided exchange good practices and to draft and implement a common strategy, in order to determine students to reflect on the right usage of technologies in their life as well as to maintain equilibrium between digitalization and experimental and experiential learning.

What is innovative about this project is that we endeavor to address different forms of technology addiction (Game Addiction- online and offline, Social Network and Online Chat Addiction, TV Addiction, Mobile phone/Tablet/PC Addiction, Online shopping and gambling Addiction, Cyber Violence and Inappropriate Content Addiction) and to offer our students a comprehensive approach (physiological, psychological, social and economic effects) about them, in order to enhance a balanced use of technology in order to improve their overall performance and to develop their personality harmoniously.

Moreover, we want to facilitate for students and teachers the unique opportunity to compare their experience to that of their European peers, during the short- term exchanges and the whole project’s experience as well, internationalization being the key to a coherent and sustained effort of schools to tackle technology addiction in adolescents.