Discover Life-Affirming Ways to Use Technology

The Problem

Children spend 1600+ hours a year with screens, making digital devices the most influential forces in their lives. Yet we know that thousands of studies detail screen-related dangers including ADD/ADHD, literacy loss, bullying and depression.

The Solution

ICMC resolves these concerns by “priming” young minds for optimal outcomes before turning on digital devices. The results are exponential gains in empathy and learning. We create educational programs and festivals that model mindful, compassionate ways to engage digital devices, while ensuring access to high-quality, culturally diverse media.

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    WAYS TO USE TECHNOLOGY

    WAYS TO USE TECHNOLOGY

  • The Problem

    Children spend 1600+ hours a year with screens, making digital devices the most influential forces in their lives. Yet we know that thousands of studies detail screen-related dangers including ADD/ADHD, literacy loss, bullying and depression.

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    The Problem

  • The Solution

    ICMC resolves these concerns by “priming” young minds for optimal outcomes before turning on digital devices. The results are exponential gains in empathy and learning. We create educational programs and festivals that model mindful, compassionate ways to engage digital devices, while ensuring access to high-quality, culturally diverse media.

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    What we do

    Instead of focusing on “what, when and how much” media children watch, the ICMC focuses on how youth engage and use screens.

    Screen Smart®

    Fast FOCUS!

    Screen Smart® is an accelerative early learning program for schools.

    The ICMC’ screen Smart PD workshops are also available for teachers, parents, school districts and conferences.

    Fast FOCUS! and Mindful Viewing Workshops, Seminars & Parent Resources

    The ICMC’s workshops for parents, pediatricians, counselors, and corporations provide adults with essential 21st-century tools.

    ICFilm Fest - Movies Make You Smarter®

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    ICMC festivals train children of all ages to think and talk critically about the content they consume.
    The ICFilmFest – Movies Make You Smarter® introduces families to global culture and opens their minds to new perspectives, defusing racial, gender and religious bias.
     
    Building Job Skills & Empathy through Film Festivals.

    These inspirational arts residency programs boost prosocial behaviors, reduce aggression and serve as job training for marginalized and abused youth in detention centers, jails and homeless shelters.

     

    What we do

    Instead of focusing on “what, when and how much” media children watch, the ICMC focuses on how youth engage and use screens.

    Screen Smart

    Screen Smart® is an accelerative learning program designed to close the achievement gap in early childhood.

    Screen Smart PD workshops are also available for teachers, parents, school districts and conferences.

    Fast FOCUS!

    Fast FOCUS! and Mindful Viewing®Workshops & Parent Resources

    The ICMC’s workshops for parents, pediatricians, counselors, and corporations provide adults with essential 21st-century tools for healthy tech habits.

    ICFilm Fest

    ICMC festivals train children of all ages to think and talk critically about the content they consume.
    The ICFilmFest introduces families to global culture and opens young minds to new perspectives, defusing racial, gender and religious bias.
     

    Global Girls, Women’s View & WorldScene

    Building Job Skills, Empathy & Community Capacity Through Film Festivals.

    These inspirational and therapeutic arts residency programs boost prosocial behaviors, reduce aggression and serve as job training for marginalized and abused youth in detention centers, jails and homeless shelters.

     

    How we can help you

    Navigating waves of new technology at home and in school, teachers and parents feel that they are always “behind the tech curve” trying to keep up or manage the damage. ICMC programs transform that paradigm, by showing children (and adults!) that healthy tech habits are fun, inspiring new ways to be more fully human while using technology. Our proven pedagogies provide rapid-impact solutions for some of the most serious challenges facing 21st Century education and early childhood development.

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    Testimonials

    Salim Ismail ExO Works Chair, former VP of Yahoo! and author of Exponential Organizations

    ❝Screen Smart is the most important breakthrough in education in a hundred years. Nicole Dreiske is the world's leading expert on how kids can and should interact with media and screens so that they bring their higher order thinking to bear.❞
    John Cech Chair, Dept of Children's Literature, U. Florida, Gainesville

    ❝Nicole Dreiske is one of the leading international authorities on technology and learning. Dreiske engages this essential and important work in ways that are dynamic, informed by the latest research, immediately accessible to a broad range of audiences, and deeply applicable to us all.❞
    Mahima Poddar Founder, The Kindness Foundation, Expressive Art Therapy Practitioner

    ❝I am utterly amazed and inspired each time I hear Nicole speak. The large global audience at the International Kindness Festival was also completely captivated by her brilliant, yet simple techniques for infusing "tech use" with fresh, human and humane awareness. Nicole's Screen Smart methods are simply jaw-dropping! ❞
    Nicholas Peneff CEO, Public Health & Safety; Partner, Healthy Buildings Informatics, LLC

    ❝Nicole has restaged the light shining on the hidden dangers of technology to illuminate the smartest use of electronic devices. She shows us how to keep from hurting ourselves, our well-being and our children, by applying systematic principles of healthy screen use to our digital devices.❞
    Salim Ismail ExO Works Chair, former VP of Yahoo! & author of Exponential Organizations

    ❝Screen Smart is the most important breakthrough in education in a hundred years. Nicole Dreiske is the world's leading expert on how kids can and should interact with media and screens so that they bring their higher order thinking to bear.❞
    John Cech Department of Children's Literature Chair, University of Florida

    ❝Nicole Dreiske is one of the leading international authorities on technology and learning. Dreiske engages this essential and important work in ways that are dynamic, informed by the latest research, immediately accessible to a broad range of audiences, and deeply applicable to us all.❞
    Mahima Poddar Founder, The Kindness Foundation, Expressive Art Therapy Practitioner

    ❝I am utterly amazed and inspired each time I hear Nicole speak. The large global audience at the International Kindness Festival was also completely captivated by her brilliant, yet simple techniques for infusing "tech use" with fresh, human and humane awareness. Nicole's Screen Smart methods are simply jaw-dropping! ❞
    Nicholas Peneff DrPH Partner at Healthy Buildings Informatics, LLC

    ❝Nicole has restaged the light shining on the hidden dangers of technology to illuminate the smartest use of electronic devices. She shows us how to keep from hurting ourselves, our well-being and our children, by applying systematic principles of healthy screen use to our digital devices.❞