1.What was the “theme” your group selected for your front page, and how did you select it? How did the articles you selected fit within that theme?

The theme our group chose was smartphones. The main reason we selected this topic was because of its relevance to students our age. All of our article selected were in regards to smartphones and their impact on our city, nation and world as a whole.

2. What was your individual role in the group process working on the NYT project?

Not only was I the administrator for my group, but I also was assigned to doing a world article regarding smartphones where I discussed India, and a national article regarding smartphones where I discussed how they distract teens.

3. How has your experience within this project influenced your understanding of “news literacy”?
Provide a link to your NYT Front Page Project.

If this project taught me one thing it would be that our news is quite relevant to us teenagers nowadays.  The link to our blog is: https://blogs.baruch.cuny.edu/theuseofsmartphones/