On the heels of Kathryn Schulz’s essay on the impact of Twitter on her writing comes high school teacher Andrew Simmons’ equally thoughtful explanation of how "Facebook Has
Your dose of anti-alarmism, from Florida teacher David Cutler, writing in The Atlantic: Last year, I discussed former New York Congressman Anthony Weiner’s sexting scandal with seniors in
Mindful magazine has an interview with child and adolescent psychiatrist Tristan Gorrindo about teens and social media. It has a nice overview of how teenage social and neurological
From a piece about the book and its lessons for parenting and technology in the Huffington Post: “I think it’s every bit as legitimate as going outside and
One of the unpredictable things about writing and publishing books is that you rarely know who else is writing books that'll come out the same season as yours.
Last week, I took a few days off and took my son to New York City. (I had a workshop in DC, and needed to meet my publisher
Not really much to say about this blog, just want to note its existence: I want the noise of my life to be a mixture of laughter and
A little while ago I got an invitation to contribute to Medium, and decided to try it out this morning. I posted there an essay on Nigel Thrift’s
So reports Larry Rosen, a professor who studies multitasking among students. He recently did a study in which students from middle school through college were told to “study something
A school mindfulness program in Ohio is shutting down after parents complain: The Tibetan bell no longer tolls at Warstler Elementary in Plain Township. The school had adopted a