Student Opinion: Do You Spend Too Much Time on Smart Phones Playing 'Stupid Games'?

This versatile resource from The New York Times website provides a short opinion piece on smart phones and the amount of time we spend playing games on them as well as several possible writing prompts pupils could consider in response to this reading. A good source of nonfiction reading material, this high-interest article and the accompanying writing prompts would make a great journal writing topic or introductory activity to a larger unit.