Dates: September 10, 17 & 24
Time: 4:00–5:30 PM Alaska Time
Audience: K–12 Educators
Access Zoom links, resources, and recordings through your ASDN Canvas account (instructions are included in your registration confirmation email).
Certificate of Attendance: 4.5 hours (attendance at all sessions required; missed sessions must be completed via recording). COA hours eligible to earn credit through ED 556: Transformative Teaching—Growth Through Study and Reflection. Click here to learn more.
SERIES OVERVIEW
Join Sue Thotz from Common Sense Media for a three-part series on building a culture of digital well-being. We'll start with you, then widen the lens to your students, and finally to the families and communities that surround them, giving you tools for lasting, sustainable change. Learn about the "frictionless design" pulling kids away from real relationships and what schools can do about it. Explore practical tools for partnering with families to better align digital habits between home and school.
Session 1: The Mindful Educator
Before we can guide students, we have to know ourselves. In this session we'll explore your own tech habits, values, and thinking traps.
Session 2: Real Social Skills
AI companions and parasocial relationships are quietly reshaping how students connect — or fail to connect — with each other. This session unpacks the "frictionless design" pulling kids away from real relationships and what schools can do about it.
Session 3: The Screen Time Divide
When school and home aren't aligned on digital habits, the gap shows. This session offers practical tools for partnering with families to close that divide and create a consistent culture of well-being.
Presenter
Sue Thotz is the Director of Outreach for Common Sense Education and co-founder of Equity in Action CA. Based in Los Angeles, she has spent more than a decade partnering with educators, administrators, and district leaders to build cultures where students engage with technology meaningfully, safely, and with a strong sense of identity and belonging.
Since joining Common Sense in 2011, Sue has led district-wide implementation of Digital Citizenship, Digital Literacy, and Well-Being curriculum to create sustained, systemic change in how schools approach digital life. Her work centers community engagement and family voice as essential to that process.
Sue Thotz
FEES
Subscriber: No Cost
Non-Subscriber: $50.00
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EARN UNIVERSITY CREDIT
ASDN's ED 556: Transformative Teaching: Growth Through Study and Reflection lets educators convert ASDN webinars, workshops, and other professional learning into 500-level UAA PACE university credit. Attend sessions, save your attendance certificates, track your learning hours, and register for ED 556 once you've met the requirements. To earn a certificate, you must attend all webinars or watch any missed session recordings.
Learn more about ED 556: Click here.
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