From Tuesday June 7, 2022 and until June 16, the students of the Amiens Nord educational city have a challenge: spend less time in front of screens. To do this, about thirty associations organize activities every day for young people from kindergarten to middle school included, but also for their parents.
A collective addiction to screens
Everything starts from an observation, screens take up a lot of space, including in the lives of the youngest, since children under 2 already spend an average of almost 3 hours a day in front of. Challenge organizers say it’s 4:45 a.m. for 8-12 year olds, 6:45 a.m. for 13-18 year olds and 5:07 a.m. for adults.
Everyone is therefore concerned and this has repercussions, especially at school, underlines Arnaud Vitté, deputy principal of the César Franck college and coordinator of the 10 day screen-free challenge.
There are students who fall asleep in class, who no longer find the time to revise and more generally to do anything other than be in front of their screens
Activities to keep busy
The objective of the 10 days without screen is to relearn or learn to do something other than being on your phone or in front of his computer. “It is not a question of demonizing the screens, but of giving them a more measured place“, explains Arnaud Vitté, the coordinator of the challenge.
For it, many activities are organized throughout the challenge: board games, crafts, sports lessons, cooking lessons… There is something for everyone and for all students and sometimes their parents.
“It’s great because I didn’t know I could do all this“, at the Alco, teenagers, like Mohammed, rediscover the pleasure of manual work by creating a work of art in Post-it notes.
– Lisa Penalver
In total, a hundred activities are offered and around thirty local associations are mobilized and everything is completely free.
The program can be found freely in various places in northern Amiens such as at the Collège César Franck, at the Odyssée, at the Safran, at the Alco, at the Atrium, etc.
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