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Ms. Kight Witham from Los Angeles, CA is requesting books through DonorsChoose, the most trusted classroom funding site for teachers.

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Building Digital Wellness in the Age of Distraction

Help me give my students and their families the tools they need to recalibrate their relationship to the alienation machines, aka the devices of devious distraction, aka smartphones.

  • $719 goal

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My Project

My students are digital natives: they have grown up in the age of constant connectivity, where our screens bombard us with a flood of high-dopamine distraction, making it hard to stay present, go deep, and be truly connected to fellow humans in real life. This has resulted in a devastating rise in anxiety, depression, and mental health issues for Gen Z, one that no previous generation has encountered.

"How to Break Up With Your Phone" by health and science journalist Catherine Price offers us a "Wake-Up" to all the ways our WMDS (wireless mobile devices) impact our sleep, social connection, motivation and mental health, followed by an accessible, research-backed "Break Up" plan to establish digital balance.

"The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness" by social psychologist Jonathan Haidt dives deeper into the impact of social media and constant connectivity that has robbed young ones of what they most need in childhood: free play, authentic human interaction, and robust protection against the Wild West that is the world-wide web.

These two books will help students understand the impact of screens, and give our school the opportunity to host parent workshops on how to understand what our young digital natives need in the age of machines.

Ms. Kight Witham Venice High School Grades 9-12

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This project will directly impact historically underfunded classrooms.

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More than three‑quarters of students from low‑income households Data about students' economic need comes from the National Center for Education Statistics, via our partners at MDR Education. Learn more

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Where your donation goes
Materials Cost Quantity Total
How to Break Up with Your Phone: The 30-Day Plan to Take Back Your Life • Amazon Business $9.59 35 $335.65
The Anxious Generation: How the Great Rewiring of Childhood Is Causing an Epidemic of Mental Illness • Amazon Business $18.92 10 $189.20

Materials cost

$524.85

Vendor shipping charges

 FREE

Sales tax

 $48.02

3rd party payment processing fee

$7.87

Fulfillment labor & materials

$30.00

Total project cost

$610.74

Suggested donation to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

$107.78

Total project goal

$718.52

How we calculate what's needed

Total project goal

 $718.52

4 Donors

-$453.23

Donations toward project cost

-$391.25

Donations to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$61.98

Matching donations from our partners

-$258.22

Match offers toward project cost

-$219.49

Match offers to help DonorsChoose reach more classrooms

-$38.73

Excluded support for DonorsChoose

-$7.06

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