Empowering learners through wellbeing and digital awareness - Conference presentation - Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive

Oct 23, 2026

Empowering learners through wellbeing and digital awareness explores how youth digital habits relate to wellbeing, using recent PISA data to analyse time spent on informational materials, videogames, internet browsing, social networks, and sharing digital content. Findings highlight heavy weekend and weekday use, with nearly four in ten browsing social networks for 3+ hours daily and notable gender differences. The session links these patterns to practical approaches for emotions, healthy routines, and confident, online-safe responses through the Cambridge Wellbeing curriculum.

LanguageEnglish

CategoryResearch & Report

FormatPDF

Pages32

Reading Time1 h 21 min

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Agenda

Research: understanding youth digital habits

Research: links between youth wellbeing and digital use

How can the Cambridge Wellbeing curriculum help?

Managing emotions and building healthy habits in the digital world

Responding confidently to digital challenges: online safely

Plenary discussion

Youth digital habits analysis (PISA data)

Time spent by activity on a typical weekday

Differences by gender and weekend usage

Empowering learners through wellbeing and digital awareness Dr Irenka Suto & Carmen Lim 8 December 2025 Cambridge Schools Conference, December 2025 Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive |
Presenters | | --- | |
Irenka Suto Head of Secondary Curriculum

Carmen Lim Senior Researcher | | Housekeeping Health and safety Fire safety
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Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | | | Agenda • Research: understanding youth digital habits • Research: understanding the links between youth wellbeing and digital use • How can the Cambridge Wellbeing curriculum help? Some key features • Managing emotions and building healthy habits in the digital world • Responding confidently to digital challenges: online safely • Plenary discussion Cambridge Schools Conference, December 2025 Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive Understanding youth digital habits Cambridge Schools Conference, December 2025 Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | We analysed time spent on several digital activities reported by learners in the latest PISA data
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Accessing informational materials
Reading, listening or viewing informational materials to learn how to do something such as tutorial or podcast |
Playing videogames
Playing video games, using smartphone, a gaming console, an online platform or Apps | | | | | | | Browsing the Browsing social Sharing digital
Internet networks content
Browsing the Internet for fun such as reading news, listening to music or watching videos. Excludes social networks
Browsing social networks platform such as Instagram or Facebook
Communicating and sharing digital content on social networks or any communication platform
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Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | | | | PISA stands for Programme for International Student Assessment. | | | | | | What percentage of 15-year-olds spend more than 3 hours on the following activity on a typical weekday?
| | | --- | --- | | 1 Accessing informational materials
2 Playing video games
3 Browsing the Internet
4 Browsing social networks
5 Sharing digital content

| Reflect based on your observations and share your responses here:

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Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | | | The data we analysed from 10 countries globally
Number of respondents by country
30800
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Spain Brazil Saudi Arabia Slovenia Hungary Costa Rica Hong Kong Ireland Panama Macao |
• Each country is equally weighted in all analyses.
• These countries are analysed as they administered both the ICT and the wellbeing PISA questionnaire. | |
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Source: Lim and Kreijkes (2025); PISA 2022 Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | | | Nearly 4 in 10 browse social networks for 3+ hours daily, while 1 in 5 exceed 5 hours
Daily time spent by activity (weekday)
| | --- | | % of 15-year-olds
36%

Source: Lim and Kreijkes (2025); PISA 2022
19%
Cambridge Schools Conference, December 2025
Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive | Boys spend more time gaming, while girls spend more time browsing social networks Daily time spent by activity and gender (weekday) Cambridge Schools Conference, December 2025 Future-ready: preparing learners to thrive % of 15-year-olds | | | | | --- | --- | --- | ! Source: Lim and Kreijkes (2025); PISA 2022 An even larger difference is observed for weekend usage

FAQs

Which digital activities does the presentation analyse using the latest PISA data?

It analyses time spent on accessing informational materials, playing video games, browsing the Internet, browsing social networks, and sharing digital content.

What does the presentation report about daily time spent on social networks?

Nearly 4 in 10 15-year-olds browse social networks for 3+ hours daily, while 1 in 5 exceed 5 hours.

How do boys and girls differ in digital activity time?

Boys spend more time gaming, while girls spend more time browsing social networks.

Oct 23, 2026

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