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Digital wellness expert urges RE upper school students to rethink tech use
RE upper school students learned strategies for evaluating and gaining control of their cell phone usage during a powerful presentation from digital wellness speaker Dino Ambrosi, founder of Project Reboot. At an upper school assembly at the Lewis Family Auditorium on August 26, Ambrosi advocated for mindful use over outright abstinence, encouraging students to employ a "reboot, rethink, and redesign" strategy for healthier tech habits.
Ambrosi shared his personal journey, revealing how an addiction to his phone nearly derailed his college experience at University of California at Berkeley before he learned to leverage technology productively. His own travails with technology motivated him to create a semester-long course on adopting better tech habits that gained immediate popularity at UC Berkeley. He later created Project Reboot with the goal of taking those techniques to a broader audience.
His interactive talk proceeded the launch of a Project Reboot student club on the upper school campus and illustrated the school's continued commitment to the health and wellness of its students. He was introduced by Head of School Rachel Rodriguez and invited by RE Director of Counseling Isis Perez-Gonzalez.
During his presentation, Ambrosi challenged students to consider how they use their devices, noting that the average 13- to 18-year-old spends approximately 8 hours and 39 minutes per day on non-productive screen time – meaning social media, entertainment, and video games.
Reboot’s approach centers on making unconscious scrolling patterns conscious and teaching students to view their time as a valuable commodity when interacting with technology platforms. Ambrosi explained that tech companies profit by selling users' time and attention, designing apps to maximize engagement and transform social media into pure entertainment.
His interactive talk proceeded the launch of a Project Reboot student club on the upper school campus and illustrated the school's continued commitment to the health and wellness of its students. He was introduced by Head of School Rachel Rodriguez and invited by RE Director of Counseling Isis Perez-Gonzalez.
During his presentation, Ambrosi challenged students to consider how they use their devices, noting that the average 13- to 18-year-old spends approximately 8 hours and 39 minutes per day on non-productive screen time – meaning social media, entertainment, and video games.
Reboot’s approach centers on making unconscious scrolling patterns conscious and teaching students to view their time as a valuable commodity when interacting with technology platforms. Ambrosi explained that tech companies profit by selling users' time and attention, designing apps to maximize engagement and transform social media into pure entertainment.
"Your devices ... definitely have the power to weigh you down and make life a lot harder than it needs to be, but they also can lift you to new heights," Ambrosi told students. "And the direction that they move you, I believe, is really just a question of whether or not you can use them intentionally [and] with a purpose."
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