Summary - Exploring the Impact of Social Media on Students, Wellness and Society 5115.L26.4377. Online registration by Cvent

For digital natives, social media has become the primary way to communicate. It has also become a big obsession: keeping up with one another, using photos and “likes” as currency. Exploring the Impact of Social Media will help educators and in turn, digital natives, understand the effects of social media on the brain, and how the coding in apps aim to keep us paying attention. Social media is a tool, not good or bad, but too much use can be detrimental to health and self-identity. This course illuminates the benefits and the drawbacks of our online interactions so we can all learn to regulate our use of social media, along with several creative ways to keep technology in its place.

Expected Learning Outcomes

Use provided prompts specific to the use of social media and self-regulation, to describe assumptions and insights of practitioners, researchers and self, including how the information relates to professional educational practice.
Design a lesson on the ways social media apps capture and monetize user experience.
Prepare an activity to collaborate with students, colleagues, or caregivers to design a 3 or more part series of virtual “talking sessions” to share information about social media, identity, and wellness.
Implement a plan to use social media to engage students in the classroom.
Develop an action plan using technology audits to challenge the status quo related to social media.

Course Syllabus This is a preview syllabus only. The official syllabus will be provided to you with your login information.

Methods of Instruction - Videos, readings and written responses. No quizzes, midterms or finals. All readings are within the online environment.
Course Grading Rubric

Grade Levels: 5-12

This Teaching Channel course is fully self-paced—you may register and begin at any time.

Current Session

Registration Deadline: October 15, 2026
Coursework Due: November 15, 2026 (you may finish earlier)
Grades Released: September 2, 2026
Please allow up to two weeks from this date—or from your completion date thereafter—for your grade to be processed and delivered to ASDN.

Next Session

Registration opens October 16, 2026, with coursework due April 15, 2027, and grades released beginning January 2, 2027.

Cancellation Policy
You may cancel within one week of registration. A $125 cancellation fee will apply.

Extensions or transfers are not permitted.