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Family Guide to Navigating Summertime Screentime
Learn about the benefits of boredom and get age-appropriate tips to help you guide your child towards a healthy relationship with screens this summer and all year long.
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Recommendations for Industry: How Teens Are Using AI
Generative AI has rapidly emerged as one of the most widely adopted and influential technologies shaping young people’s digital lives. The following recommendations are grounded in what teens across three countries told us about how they are actually using these tools.
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A Day, Doubled (with screen) (without)
Student Advisory Council member Emily H. presents her poem “a day, doubled” about how screens can affect the course of a day.
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The Digital Double-Edge: Navigating Connection and Comparison
Student Advisory Council member Arihant S. explores the “digital paradox” of social media, offering peer-to-peer strategies for navigating the tension between authentic online connection and the mental health toll of the comparison trap.
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Using AI to Augment, Not Replace Our Learning
Student Advisory Council member Willow examines the impact of AI on cognitive offloading in education—offering an evidence-backed 3-step framework to help students use AI for augmentation rather than as a replacement for critical thinking.
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What We Learned About How Teens in Brazil, France, and the US Are Using AI
Concern about teens and AI tends to cluster around a few worst-case scenarios. Our latest Pulse Survey of nearly 2,850 teens across the U.S., Brazil, and France offers a more nuanced view.
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Pulse Survey: How Teens Are Using AI to Learn, Create, and Connect—Insights from Brazil, France, and the United States
A Digital Wellness Lab Pulse Survey of nearly 2,850 adolescents examines how teens in the U.S., Brazil, and France engage with AI chatbots for learning, creativity, advice, and social connection.
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How Students Can Integrate Artificial Intelligence and EdTech into their Learning Experience
Student Advisory Council member Azalea G. interviews Scroll by Choice CEO Riz Vazir to explore how families and schools can move beyond device bans toward a future of intentional technology use and personal agency.
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2025 Impact Report
Young people are the experts about their own digital lives. Our 2025 research reinforces this idea again and again. Teens approach technology with more intention, nuance, and self-awareness than they are often given credit for.
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Amplifying Youth Voices: Young People Are the Experts on Their Own Digital Lives
Young people are the experts about their own digital lives. That insight defines this year’s Impact Report.
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Five Years of Following the Science
The Lab reflects on five years of independent research, youth partnership, industry collaboration, and what it means for the future of digital wellness.
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Managing Current Events Anxiety in a Digital Age
Bansi, an alumna of the Digital Wellness Lab’s 2023-2024 Student Advisory Council, gets in-depth about strategies for coping with the world and overwhelming news.
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Fellow Travelers: Dr. Aparna Samuel Balasundaram
Dr. Aparna Samuel Balasundaram, Global Head of Wellbeing and Resilience at AI & Immersive Operations, BPS, Wipro, shares a behind-the-scenes look at how Trust and Safety teams work to protect vulnerable users—particularly children and teens—from digital harm by creating digital ecosystems that are ethical, inclusive, and safe.
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Research Brief: Young People’s Use of Avatars and Virtual Character Customization
This research brief reviews how young people access certain types of content frequently cited as concerning by regulators and platforms (e.g. violence, sexual content), and how young people respond to harmful content, including youth viewpoints on content moderation practices.
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Key Insights from Our Pulse Survey: What We Learned About How Teens Experience Belonging
Our new research reveals how today’s adolescents find support, friendship, and community, and why the “online vs. offline” debate misses the point.