The Attention Experiment empowers students to understand what digital platforms are doing to their brains and bodies, and gives them practical tools to manage their own digital habits. Katie Brockhurst is an author, speaker and digital wellbeing expert specialising in attention, digital habits and our relationship with technology.
Schools are at the centre of a rapidly changing national conversation about young people's digital lives. Phone bans, new online safety legislation, updated RSHE requirements, AI in the classroom. The landscape is shifting fast and teachers are expected to navigate all of it. But policies and restrictions only go so far. Students need to understand what's happening between them and the platforms competing for their attention, and they need tools that work beyond the school gate.
That's what The Attention Experiment offers.
Built around a simple, memorable framework: Scroll, Loop, Notice, Choose. Katie's sessions give students and staff a shared language for understanding how digital attention is captured, why it's so hard to break the loop, and what they can actually do about it. The sequence draws on neuroscience, current research and first-hand experience, and it works because it meets students at the heart of where they are with no shame, no blame, no lectures about screen time.
Katie Brockhurst has spent twenty years working inside the social media and attention economy, including as social media lead for The Common at Glastonbury Festival. She knows how digital platforms are designed to capture and hold attention, because she fell prey to them. Now she brings that journey into schools, helping students understand how the technologies they use every day actually work, and giving them something practical they can try and trust.
Scroll → Loop → Notice → Choose explains what's happening at each stage, why young people's developing brains are especially impacted, and why the latest research shows that the best approaches are body-based, not just information-based.
And this isn't just social media, the same design logic is built into AI chatbots and devices students use for schoolwork. Through storytelling and youth-led examples that students instantly recognise, Katie explains how these systems are engineered to keep them engaged, and what that does to focus, mood, sleep and self-worth.
Katie is the author of Social Media for a New Age (Business Book Awards finalist), a qualified Digital Wellbeing Coach with the Consciously Digital Institute and has provided written evidence to the House of Commons Education Committee on AI and EdTech.
She delivers student sessions, staff CPD and INSET and parent talks. Sessions support PSHE and RSHE provision.
Students and staff leave with practical tools they can use straight away.
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