By Steve Kastenbaum, CNN
Editor’s note: This story is part of the CNN series, “Our Mobile Society,” about how smartphones and tablets have changed the way we live. Listen to the complete story in the audio player above.
(CNN) – Middle school students at the tech café inside the Island School on New York’s Lower East Side have their laptops open.
They’re working on their next blog posts about current social issues under the guidance of their teacher, Lou Lahana.
He’s on a mission to help these kids go from being consumers of digital products to being content creators – to end ‘digital inequality.’