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WHAT IS SCREEN-FREE WEEK?
Screen-Free Week is an annual, international celebration when schools, families, and community groups pledge to spend seven days without digital entertainment. Instead of watching TV, surfing the web, or playing video games, they read, play, think, create, get physically active, and spend more time with friends and family.
Screens are so important to modern life that sorting out what’s entertainment and what’s work or communication can be difficult. You absolutely don’t have to stop using your computer for work or school—but if screens of any kind are interfering with your family time (including meals), you may want to think carefully about how you’re using them.
WHY CELEBRATE?
Regardless of whether children are consuming “good” or “bad” programming, it’s clear that screen media dominates the lives of far too many kids, displacing all sorts of other activities that are integral to childhood. Excessive screen time is linked to poor school performance, childhood obesity, and attention problems. And it is primarily through screens that children are exposed to harmful marketing.
Screen-Free Week is a fun and innovative opportunity to reduce our dependence on entertainment screen media, including television, video games, computers, and hand-held devices. It’s a chance for children—and adults—to rediscover the joys of life beyond the screen.
WHO AND WHERE?
Anyone can participate by simply refraining from using screens for entertainment. Our 2020 celebration is postponed, but we look forward to definitely celebrating in 2021. Experience tells us that it’s more fun – and much easier – to go screen-free with others. That’s why we hope you’ll become a SFW Organizer.
You can organize Screen-Free Week in a classroom or entire school, with a scout troop, faith community, neighborhood association, at your local library or with any community group. Organizers and volunteers promote the week, reach out to partners, and help children and families discover fun, screen-free activities. If you can’t organize a whole week, consider hosting a screen-free event!
HOW TO ORGANIZE:
Organizing is fun and easy. And to make it even easier, we’ve created an Organizer’s Kit to walk you through the process; it includes all the suggestions, activities and handouts you’ll need. Download your free Organizer’s Kit today and get started on your Screen-Free Week (http://org.salsalabs.com/o/621/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7757)!
Screen-Free Week is an annual, international celebration when schools, families, and community groups pledge to spend seven days without digital entertainment. Instead of watching TV, surfing the web, or playing video games, they read, play, think, create, get physically active, and spend more time with friends and family.
Screens are so important to modern life that sorting out what’s entertainment and what’s work or communication can be difficult. You absolutely don’t have to stop using your computer for work or school—but if screens of any kind are interfering with your family time (including meals), you may want to think carefully about how you’re using them.
WHY CELEBRATE?
Regardless of whether children are consuming “good” or “bad” programming, it’s clear that screen media dominates the lives of far too many kids, displacing all sorts of other activities that are integral to childhood. Excessive screen time is linked to poor school performance, childhood obesity, and attention problems. And it is primarily through screens that children are exposed to harmful marketing.
Screen-Free Week is a fun and innovative opportunity to reduce our dependence on entertainment screen media, including television, video games, computers, and hand-held devices. It’s a chance for children—and adults—to rediscover the joys of life beyond the screen.
WHO AND WHERE?
Anyone can participate by simply refraining from using screens for entertainment. Our 2020 celebration is postponed, but we look forward to definitely celebrating in 2021. Experience tells us that it’s more fun – and much easier – to go screen-free with others. That’s why we hope you’ll become a SFW Organizer.
You can organize Screen-Free Week in a classroom or entire school, with a scout troop, faith community, neighborhood association, at your local library or with any community group. Organizers and volunteers promote the week, reach out to partners, and help children and families discover fun, screen-free activities. If you can’t organize a whole week, consider hosting a screen-free event!
HOW TO ORGANIZE:
Organizing is fun and easy. And to make it even easier, we’ve created an Organizer’s Kit to walk you through the process; it includes all the suggestions, activities and handouts you’ll need. Download your free Organizer’s Kit today and get started on your Screen-Free Week (http://org.salsalabs.com/o/621/p/salsa/web/common/public/signup?signup_page_KEY=7757)!
Overview
Location
United States, Massachusetts, Boston
Employees
11-50
Founded date
2014
Mentions in press and media 3
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| Jul 6, 2016 | Why Pre-K Computer Programming Should Be More Hands and Less Screen | It sounds like a paradox. How can you teach computer programming without a screen? Computer programming is a term synonymous with coding, after all. Text, letters, syntax, arranged in meaningful sequences that give machines instructions. We... |
| May 31, 2015 | All Screens Are Not Created Equal | Björn Jeffery Contributor Björn Jeffery is the CEO and co-founder of Toca Boca Recently, Taiwanese lawmakers approved the “Child and Youth Welfare and Protection Act,” making it illegal for children under the age of 18 to use electronic dev... |
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FAQ about Screen-Free Week
When was Screen-Free Week founded?
Screen-Free Week was founded in 2014.
What has the press written about Screen-Free Week?
Parsers VC has collected 3 articles mentioning Screen-Free Week, among them “Why Pre-K Computer Programming Should Be More Hands and Less Screen” (Jul 6, 2016) and “All Screens Are Not Created Equal” (May 31, 2015).
Is Screen-Free Week still active?
Yes, Screen-Free Week is active; its latest activity on Parsers VC dates from Jul 28, 2026.