By Paola Mendiola Efigenio Before creating your new online account, you are asked to enter your age. Eliana, age 8, learned from her classmate that changing the year she was born to make her 13 would allow her to create an account. With the click of a button, her [...]
Remy Rosenberg Has your teacher ever told you not to use AI on an assignment? Well, I think every single one of my teachers has said that this year. Artificial intelligence has taken over in schools across the country. While AI can be a helpful tool if used correctly, [...]
By Remy Rosenberg If you ever get a strange email or text with a link from a number you don’t know, or a text that tells you to reply with certain words, do not click or engage with it! Sometimes the message says that your account is frozen, that [...]
By Melissa Lowry When I think back to the pandemic, which typically makes me shudder, I remember the same thing many people do, nothing was easy. Every decision felt crushing, like the wrong decision could cost everything. That said, one choice felt universally right…do whatever it takes to deliver [...]
Remy Rosenberg When you go to a high school party, you’re probably thinking about having a good time with your friends, not about protecting your reputation. But in 2025, every party is basically a danger zone for online content. Phones are out all the time, people are filming videos [...]
Remy Rosenberg Think for a minute and ask yourself where you get your news. For a lot of us, the answer is simple: our phones. We scroll through Instagram or Tiktok and suddenly feel “in the loop”. In today’s world, many teens turn to social media for updates because [...]
By Remy Rosenberg If you’ve ever gotten a text from a friend or classmate saying, “Hey, can you send me your homework so I can check mine?”, you are definitely not alone. In high school, it’s common to want to help your friends, especially when an assignment may be confusing [...]
By JoAnna Molina, PhD Big Takeaways Teens often show mood changes online before they talk about them Posting, deleting posts, gaming patterns, and late-night scrolling can offer important insights into a teen’s mental health Not every change is a problem, but persistent changes can serve as red flags Noticing, [...]
By Remy Rosenberg How many of the people you follow on social media are influencers? Influencers can be entertaining, inspiring, and even feel like friends you’ve never met. But just because they have hundreds of thousands to millions of followers, doesn’t mean everything they post is true, realistic, or [...]
By Adithya Bharath As I'm counting down to graduation, I've been thinking a lot about the digital world I'm about to fully enter. We're the generation that grew up with AI in our pockets, algorithms knowing our next move before we do, and data breaches making headlines like weather [...]
