Lesson Plans

One-off workshop: Digital detox

One-off Workshop
David Porter outlines a workshop based on the concept of a forced digital detox, with an aim to create devised drama with your students.
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How long could you endure a digital detox for? What about your students? Should anyone have to endure a period of abstinence from the internet, messaging, texts, social media, data and gaming? Some teenagers are forced to.

This one-off session is designed to use the idea of a forced fortnight's detox as a stimulus for devised drama. Done so by a parent on health grounds, the central character will instead receive lots of fresh air, exercise, wholesome food and tough love.

Objectives

In groups of two or three: one is addicted to chocolate, the other(s) enjoy depriving him/her of it by taunting and mocking. What is the outcome?

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