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Salim Ismail, best-selling author and visionary founder of Exponential Organizations explores the creation of Nicole Dreiske’s acclaimed Screen Smart^®accelerated learning program. In this lively interview, Ismail and Dreiske unpack the secrets of Screen Smart’s extraordinary success in reversing learning loss. Step-by-step, readers will gain ingenious, neuroscience-based techniques to help children learn better and faster. Best of all, Screen Smart^® techniques make healthy tech habits FUN, so children voluntarily watch less and make better screen choices.

About Salim Ismail:

Salim Ismail is a globally recognized thought leader, entrepreneur, and author, whose mission – his Massive Transformative Purpose — is nothing less than Fixing Civilization.

As the Founding Executive Director of Singularity University and the co-founder of OpenExO, Salim has been at the forefront of global innovation, guiding leaders and institutions toward exponential thinking in a world of accelerating change. He is the lead author of the international best-seller “Exponential Organizations”, a book that has transformed how businesses approach growth, disruption, and purpose in the 21st century. The book has been translated into over 20 languages and is considered a blueprint for modern, agile, and impact-driven organizations.

OpenExO is a global transformation ecosystem with a Massive Transformative Purpose: To Transform the World for a Better Future.

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Winner of the National Parenting Center’s Seal of Approval

Nicole Dreiske’s groundbreaking book about Screen Smart® helps you:

Understand how screens affect children’s minds and behaviors, so you can help them make better screen choices.
Cultivate healthy screen habits in ways that are fun and appealing to kids.
Hold meaningful talks with children about screen time.
Engage digital devices mindfully and share Screen Smart skills with others.
Use time spent with screens at home to boost learning outcomes at school!

Praise for The Upside of Digital Devices

For every tech-savvy adult who’s wondered how to talk with young children about digital devices, this is the book that will change the parenting paradigm around screens.

THE UPSIDE OF DIGITAL DEVICES brings Dreiske’s remarkable expertise to full expression, offering exceptional tools for parents and children to develop new, healthy relationships with their digital devices.

I've seen Nicole's simple yet powerful technique in action and know it works. As an anti-bullying speaker and expert, I witness the effect screens have on young minds every day, and this book will save lives.

Screens and technology are a huge part of children’s lives. The Movies Make You Smarter® Guide shows teachers and parents how to end passive viewing and prime children minds for critical and creative thinking. Taught to more than 500,000 children, the techniques detailed in this guide can help your child develop a healthy relationship with screens and technology. The book describes fun, simple ways to use animated, live action, narrative and documentary films as springboards to improve literacy, vocabulary, close analysis, empathy and social emotional learning.

Learn how to help youth exercise empathy, critical thinking and their capacity for reflection in regard to media and audiovisual content. Movies Make You Smarter^® provides an evidence-based approach for engaging youth in meaningful dialogue that will help them accomplish many specific cognitive and developmental objectives.

The 60+ films included in this book have been through the ICMC’s rigorous three-tiered jurying process. For each film, the book provides key identifying information (title, country, description, etc.), contextualizing remarks, and a series of open-ended questions to prompt thoughtful discussion. You’ll be amazed at the way short films can opens the door to meaningful, authentic peer-to-peer discussion.

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Mindful Viewing^® was written to take the worry out of screen time for parents and youth spiritual leaders who want clear and simple ways to teach their children healthy screen habits. These approaches open the door to real dialogue, giving group leaders fresh new ways to connect to youth so they become more mindful and self-aware when using technology. Mindful Viewing^® offers a unique approach to screen time and provides values-focused media education and values-based films for churches, families, community groups faith-based organizations. Most importantly, it helps align screen use with spiritual practices by teaching kids to engage screens with their hearts and minds awake.

Learn to inspire meaningful discussion about the ways media impact girls’ self-image and self-esteem. Thanks to social media, nearly 50% of girls are now likely to receive critical and hurtful messages. The need is clear: instead of being repressed and stigmatized for their uniqueness and femininity, teens deserve to see and discuss media that depicts girls of all sizes and backgrounds as strong, smart, and courageous.

The evidence-based approach detailed in Mindful Viewing^® gives girls access to a rich tapestry of stories that reflect and celebrate the amazing diversity of female experiences.

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