Discover Life-Affirming Ways To Use Technology
The Challenges of Screen Time
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.
Turn Tech Concerns into High-Impact Learning Opportunities
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.
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Screen Smart® is an accelerative e-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.
ICMC festivals train children of all ages to think and talk critically about the content they consume.
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® 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! 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.
ICMC festivals train children of all ages to think and talk critically about the content they consume.
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.
