The Old Greenwich School and Riverside School PTAs present 
  Social Awakening Parent Talk with Max Stossel 
 
Thursday, May 2 @ 7 pm 
Eastern Middle School auditorium
 
Are you worried about how social media is affecting your child now or in the future?
Are you worried that your child will only be surviving versus thriving in the digital world?
 
Max will:
  • highlight some of the ways in which technology is designed to be addictive and distracting
  • discuss how it is affecting the minds of our children
  • provide recommendations on how to address some of the related challenges that families face in today's world
The presentation will conclude with an open discussion of what is working and not working in households. We expect this evening to be a helpful conversation for parents looking to navigate the difficulties of the healthy use of technology. The presentation and Q&A should last around an hour.

 

5th grade students from OGS and Riverside will participate in a workshop facilitated by Max Stossel during the school day. Max typically presents to audiences aged 5th grade and above, as his topics require a certain level of maturity.

 

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Learn more about Max Stossel:

 

Max Stossel is an award-winning artist, the Founder of Social Awakening: an organization dedicated to helping young people survive and thrive in the modern world, and the Youth & Education Advisor for the Center for Humane Technology, a group working to realign technology with humanity (as featured in The Social Dilemma).

 

Before working in this field, Max was a media strategist with an extensive background in social media. He ran social media for big brands, and later worked for a social media company where he designed some notifications to distract people.

 

He has spent the past seven years speaking with 100,000+ students, parents, and educators around the world about social media's impact on our lives, and creating resources to help manage that impact. Max provides a unique and much-needed perspective on the role of technology in our homes, schools, and in our society.

 

You can read more about Max at https://www.socialawakening.org and https://www.wordsthatmove.com.

 

Contact: Michelle Horgan