This introductory course provides educators with a well-rounded understanding of what it means for students to be digitally well. Grounded in current research and a harm-reduction approach, it explores the real risks and benefits of digital media, emerging platforms and trends, and why educators play a vital role in students' digital wellness. Participants leave with practical strategies to bring into the classroom: leading reflective discussions, encouraging intentional connection, strengthening students' critical decision-making, and partnering with families.

Building on Course 1, this course helps educators recognize how digital media shapes students' emotional regulation, relationships, and learning, and how to respond. Drawing on current research, it explores topics like online comparison and validation, the evolution of cyberbullying, digital conflict, and the effects on memory, attention, and sleep. Educators gain flexible, harm-reduction strategies to build emotional resilience, strengthen classroom community, and support focused, engaged learning.

This course equips educators to help students navigate digital media with confidence, critical thinking, and ethical awareness. Educators explore how to help students recognize misinformation, evaluate sources, and verify claims; how students' digital language can become a bridge to connection and academic literacy; and how online choices shape a lasting digital identity. Practical strategies fit easily into advisory, transitions, SEL, or subject-area lessons.

This course equips educators to recognize the warning signs of online threats, understand how digital radicalization takes hold, and see how harmful online experiences affect student wellbeing, learning, and behavior. Educators leave prepared to identify students at risk, respond with confidence and compassion, and build digital resilience in the classroom.

There is no single right way to bring AI into teaching and learning, and this course helps educators find their footing. Participants explore the hopes and concerns shaping AI in education, current frameworks for appropriate classroom use, and how AI affects academic integrity and real learning. The course also examines social AI and chatbot relationships in student development, and how educators can preserve their own and their students' individuality, voice, and agency.