Facelook vs. Facebook / Offline Night

Aims of the tool

Learning to spend a quality time with peers without gadgets

Description of the tool

1. Split the participants into small groups.
2. Ask the groups to discuss and write down a list of the things they all do with the help of their phones (e.g. listening to music, talking, writing messages etc.).
3. From the participants' lists choose one different action for each group and ask the groups to perform this action without the phone - to transmit the action in the real life (e.g. to start writing letters to some friends by hand, to have a proper conversation, to play music etc.).
4. Let the participants to reflect first within their small groups - how did it feel to perform the usual phone actions live.
5. Ask the groups to report to the rest of the teams.
6. Sum up.

If time and condition allows, You can organize an offline night, asking young people to set their phones on the flight mode or turn off at all and organize an active communicate night without gadgets. This could be a great experience at school.