Bengaluru: As students navigate increasing academic demands alongside constant digital engagement, The Times of India’s national initiative ‘Let’s D-Stress’ brings a timely conversation on digital wellbeing to Vidyashilp University Tuesday.As part of Let’s D-Stress: Campus Conversations, the session will feature RJ Shaayan, who will lead an interactive, high-energy engagement with students, followed by a fireside discussion with Dr Jayant Mahadevan, assistant professor of psychiatry at the Centre for Addiction Medicine, Nimhans. The conversation will be moderated by Ashwini Tadpatrikar, assistant professor at Vidyashilp University and former clinical psychologist at Nimhans. The experts will also answer questions on digital behaviours from students.The initiative focuses on helping students recognise patterns of digital overuse, understand its impact on attention, memory and learning, and explore practical ways to build healthier, more mindful habits.Prof Chandan Gowda, dean, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Vidyashilp University, said: “Digital wellbeing has become an essential quality to cultivate among students. Attention, reflection, and genuine learning are put at high risk in its absence. When the student’s mind is constantly fragmented by screens, knowledge becomes hurried and superficial, and genuine learning becomes impossible. To reduce screen time is of course not to reject technology but to reclaim slowness, conversation, and interiority. Classrooms must cultivate the discipline of disengaging from digital technologies as much as the skill of accessing them.”
