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Tricky Tech Game

How can healthy tech habits help us battle design tricks?

Students play Tricky Tech, an engaging card game that brings design tricks and healthy digital habits to life. Through gameplay, students recognize common design strategies used by apps and websites, while practicing protective habits that support their digital well-being. This hands-on experience helps students connect classroom learning to their real-world tech use.

Objectives

  • Recognize design tricks when playing the card game Tricky Tech
  • Practice using healthy habits to make good choices about how we use tech

Vocabulary

Design Tricks · Healthy Habit
Design Tricks clever ways that apps and games are designed to grab your attention and make it hard to stop using them
Healthy Habit a positive behavior that you do regularly to help your mind and body
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A green playing card with a brain and text that reads "Tricky Tech" is hovering above a mess of other cards blurred in the background.
Time
20 mins.

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