Digital Well-Being Week
May 18–22, 2026
Join teachers and students everywhere to celebrate Digital Well-Being Week this May 18–22! This new campaign coincides with Mental Health Awareness Month, and pairs well with Digital Citizenship Week in the fall. Digital Well-Being Week offers a fun, easy way to help your students build healthy tech habits as they head into summer.
Help your students lean into what keeps them human.
How to Participate in Your Classroom
Kick off the week with the Tech Habits Interview activity (found in our lesson Tech Habit Challenge: Part 1). With a partner, students will take turns interviewing each other about their technology habits. Along the way, they'll recognize the different ways they use media and tech in their daily lives, and consider how media and tech use impacts their well-being.
- All activities labeled "eighth grade" can be easily adapted to other grade levels.
- Teach Parts 1 and 2 on consecutive days, or combine them into a single day.
On day two (or combined with day one), after reflecting on their own media and tech use, it's time for students to transform these insights into action.
Each student will develop a personalized challenge tailored to their own digital lives. They'll also support each other in setting realistic goals and coming up with practical reminders to help their new habits stick. Everyone will try their challenges for a few days, then reflect on how things went at the end of the week.
During the week, teach the lesson App Traps & Addictive Design. Students will explore the concepts of addictive and humane design in technology, and learn about making healthier choices in their digital lives.
Also, be sure to check in with your students about how their Tech Habit Challenges are going. Looking for more activities? Explore all of our grades K–8 Healthy Habits lessons!
Finish the week with a check-in where students re-interview their partners about how things went, then write a personal reflection. Remind them: It's OK if things didn't go perfectly! The goal is to notice what worked, what was challenging, and to generate ideas on how to keep their healthy habits going – even after the school year ends!
Optional extension: Have students share their learnings and reflections with the class, and/or do a creative project to showcase their learning. The sky is the limit!
Help us spread the word!
Digital Well-Being Week is brand-new this year – we need your help to get the word out! By sharing Digital Well-Being week with others, you can help bring healthier tech habits to even more teachers and students around the world.
It can be as simple as resharing one of our social media posts with your educator network, or downloading and sharing our family resources so parents can support their kids' digital well-being over the summer.