Digital & Innovative Education
Planned session
Digital Wellbeing: Attention, Phones and School Life
Your school will decide something about phones this year, or it already has. This week is about what decides whether anything actually improves.
Session dates10–14 May 2027
LocationEma İstanbul
Duration5 days
FundingErasmus+ eligible
About this course
By Friday you have a written plan for attention in your own classroom, and a proposal your school can act on. Monday — you work out what your school is actually trying to fix, and what the evidence does not settle. Tuesday — you redesign one of your own lessons around how attention really behaves.…
Methodology
One Document, Four Countries
The week works through a single European Commission analysis and the four national case studies inside it, read directly rather than through summaries of it.
Your School Is the Case Study
Every output is your own school's material — your lesson, your families, your students — rather than a worked example discussed in the abstract.
Evidence, Suggestion, Open Question
Participants mark which of the three each of their own claims is, because a proposal that overstates its evidence is the one a headteacher rejects.
Sorted Into Three Piles
From Wednesday onwards, every idea generated is placed in one of three columns — what you can do alone, what needs one colleague, and what you have to ask leadership for — so Friday produces something realistic rather than a wish list.
What you'll take home
Separate the two concerns behind phone policy — classroom distraction and adolescent wellbeing — and say which one your own school actually has evidence for.
Redesign one lesson around where attention is really lost, and teach it in your first week back.
Write a one-line classroom device norm and a spoken response you can use the moment a phone appears, with or without a school policy behind you.
Draft a one-page school phone policy stating why, when, where and how, together with the parent letter that goes with it.
Plan the first six weeks after a rule starts, and describe the kinds of student for whom the standard approach is likely to fail, and what happens instead.
State what a school still owes its learners digitally once devices are restricted, and put your request to leadership in writing, addressed to a named person.
Other dates for this course
- 14–18 Dec 2026 Mersin Planned
- 8–12 Feb 2027 İstanbul Planned
- 5–9 Apr 2027 Antalya Planned
- 5–9 Jul 2027 Antalya Planned
- 6–10 Sep 2027 Rome Planned
- 1–5 Nov 2027 Bremen Planned
- 27–31 Dec 2027 İzmir Planned
€80/day€400 total · 5 days
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What's included
25 hours of training & materials
Certificate of attendance
Europass Mobility document
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Where our participants come from
Aggregated across all EMA courses, not specific to this session.
Romanian
22%
Polish
16%
Lithuanian
9%
Portuguese
8%
Bulgarian
7%
+ educators from 20 more countries across Europe and beyond
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