A New Wave of Teens Are Breaking Away From Social Media
By Andrew McPeak If you are lucky on Sunday afternoons on the steps of Central Library on Grand Army Plaza in Brooklyn, NY, you can watch as one by one, the members of the Luddite Club assemble together. They never know exactly how many members are going to show up because most of them have chosen to give up their smartphones
Three Skills Students Need to Become Digital Citizens
By Andrew McPeak One of the challenges of our role today as educators is that we often assume that the elderly are the most vulnerable population to online hoaxes, fake news, and scammers. However, this is, quite ironically, a bit of misinformation (or “Fake News”). In fall 2021, a teacher named Amanda Gardner, who had two decades of experience, began what she