Resources that help students
be aware that digital media is intentionally designed to capture and keep our attention

Common Sense Education:

• "Positive Tech Habits" lesson

• "Design Tricks" lesson

• "Tech Habit Challenge" lesson

• "Digital Media and Your Brain" lesson 

• "Can Media Be Addictive?" lesson 

Other resources:

• Mozilla's Web Literacy Curriculum's "Design on the Web" lesson 

• Vox's "It's not you: phones are designed to be addicting" video 

• Epiheo's "What the internet is doing to our brains" video 

• Netflix's "The Social Dilemma" film (subscription required)