Digital Well-being
Unplug
At Virginia Tech, we want our students to experience digital flourishing. Digital well-being occurs on a spectrum and flourishing is when we use our devices in a way that maximizes the positives and minimizes the negatives. In other words, we are benefiting from all the great things that technology has to offer. Devices supplement and add to our lives but do not take away from us reaching our full potential.
The Digital Wellness Institute has developed a tool to help people understand the 8 dimensions of digital well-being and assess a person's individual device use strengths and areas of improvement.
Get Started
- Discover personal areas of digital flourishing and challenges – take the Digital Flourishing survey!
- Find Alternatives to scrolling and commit to doing them.
Digital Well-being Challenges
Summer is a great time to experiment with when and how we use our phones. If you are looking for some inspiration to help you focus, improve your mental health, enhance friendships and relationships, or simply be more present, explore our data-base of weekly digital well-being challenges from the past few years.
- Each challenge from Spring 2024 through Spring 2025 includes great content (podcasts, articles, videos, research, and more) about why and how to be successful with the challenge.
- As with any behavior change, pick challenges that align with what is most important to you, and start there! If you enjoy the change, try another, or focus on one for the whole summer.
- Create a supportive environment by inviting friends and family to do challenges with you.