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Digital addiction is quietly reshaping student behavior, attention, and motivation. This dynamic workshop explores the neuroscience of digital addiction, unpacks how algorithms exploit dopamine pathways, and examines how this rewiring is contributing to rising rates of anxiety, depression, executive dysfunction, and even physical symptoms like headaches, insomnia, and chronic fatigue. Participants will also explore what colleges can do to respond and gain tools to spot digital dysregulation, foster attention, and build tech-conscious classrooms that support deep learning.

About the Speaker: Dr. Stacey Patton is an award-winning journalist, historian, child advocate, and nationally recognized speaker whose work sits at the intersection of race, trauma, education, and media. Known for her powerful storytelling and evidence-based insight, Dr. Patton delivers dynamic talks that challenge audiences to rethink how childhood adversity, especially abuse, neglect, and systemic inequality, shapes learning, behavior, and public life.

A professor of journalism at Howard University and research associate at Morgan State University’s Institute for Urban Research, she blends cutting-edge research in neuroscience, mental health, and trauma with lived experience as a former foster youth and survivor of abuse. Her talks equip educators, leaders, and institutions with tools for building trauma-informed, emotionally intelligent learning environments.

This event is generously sponsored by the Friends of the Mountain View Library.