As part of her state of the state agenda, Gov. Kathy Hochul is taking aim at social media use among young people.
The governor is pushing a multi-faceted approach when it comes to how to best tackle it: strategies for both in and out of the classroom.
Kimberly Kopko, an expert in parenting and child development at Cornell University, told Spectrum News 1 that the governor’s Unplug and Play initiative, which would invest in “social infrastructure,” represents Hochul taking a deeper dive into mitigating the negative impact of social media use on social development beyond the limits of the school day.
“What the governor is doing with these initiatives is not just saying ‘put your phones down, get off your phones,’ she has a very significant ‘and,” she said. “‘Put your phones down and do this’ and she’s putting the funding behind the ‘do this’ part.”
Unplug and Play would fund things like …