In part one of a two-part series entitled “Disconnected” by Molly Belmont on the effects of digital devices and social media on school-aged children that appears in the March/April 2024 issue of NYSUT United (the New York State United Teachers magazine) “The aggregate anxiety that is being produced by our growing dependence on technology is not only democratic — affecting all of us from toddlers to old-timers — but rapidly turning toxic.