One thing I love about teaching is learning from my students. I started my career at a junior college in California in the early 2000s, teaching Informal Logic (critical thinking), which fostered lots ...

I attended a business dinner recently and was appalled that three out of the six people at my table never looked up from their phones to make conversation. They were too busy texting, emailing and ...

Isabella Pires first noticed what she calls the “gradual apathy pandemic” in eighth grade. Only a handful of classmates registered for service projects she helped organize at her Massachusetts school.

Almost 50 percent of Americans are addicted to their cellphones. On average, people check their phones every 12 minutes throughout the day. Almost 44 percent of Americans say being away from their ...

Dr. Alyson Meister, a professor at IMD Business School in Switzerland, researched the behavioral science behind what has us all glued to our phones and published her findings in the Harvard Business ...

Sadly, there is something called “cell phone addiction”. According to Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byer’s annual Internet Trends report, people check their phones 150 times a day. Cell phone addiction ...

On Mother’s Day, my husband and I went out for a quick burger at a small joint in Gilbert. Upon entering, I noticed a number of people using their phones. I started counting. Of the 24 people at nine ...