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 [...]
A Realistic, 5-Step Framework for Today’s Digital Families By Allie Hunter TL;DR (busy mom edition) Kids use AI every day and often understand it better than adults. Parents do not need to be technical, they just need open communication. Set five simple rules: protect privacy, avoid AI companions, use [...]
By Susanne Gurman Halloween may come just once a year, but in the digital world, costumes are worn every day. We adults see this firsthand. Many of the world’s most significant data breaches start the same way: someone pretending to be someone else. A cybercriminal crafts a convincing story, sends [...]
By Allie Hunter What happened this week Recently two very upsetting videos have circulated widely online. In one, Charlie Kirk, a political speaker, was shot during an event at Utah Valley University. In another, Iryna Zarutska, a young woman from Ukraine, was stabbed while riding a Charlotte light rail [...]
By Allie Hunter Photo source: https://culturacolectiva.com/en/history/adam-raine-chatgpt-incident/ A heartbreaking lawsuit filed this week alleges that a teen built a deep, daily relationship with an AI chatbot (ChatGPT) that gradually validated his darkest thoughts. His parents say the AI didn’t just fail to help, it encouraged harmful ideas, offered to draft a [...]
By Ellie Halpert We all know the feeling: you open Instagram to check one thing, and all of a sudden it’s been thirty minutes and you’ve somehow cycled through Snapchat, TikTok, and back to Instagram again. It’s so common that we have a word for it: Doomscrolling. For a [...]
By Adithya Bharath If you’ve ever used ChatGPT to help with an essay or asked Alexa to play your favorite song, then you already know what artificial intelligence can do. But that kind of AI waits for you to say something first. There’s a new kind of AI that [...]
