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Welcome to Kind World, I'm Yasmin Ammer.

And I'm Andrea Aswahay. So So Yasmin I don't know about you but being in

quarantine has led me to talk on the phone more than I have in a very very long time.

You are not kidding most in a very, very long time.

You are not kidding.

Most nights, like during dinner, we just leave our phone on.

Like we have dinner with other people and it's a really, really good way to connect

when we can't actually see them.

Yeah, my friend Landry and I, we used to go to the movies once a week

and now we are basically watching movies together, but separately in our own apartments and then afterward

we face time each other and we talk about the movies as if we had just watched it

together on the movie screen. I mean that's just what you have to do.

I mean you just cannot overstate how important technology

has been and keeping us connected.

But I do think our dependence on this

has inevitably caused some people to feel left out. our

think our dependence on this has inevitably caused some people to feel left out. And someone who knows that all too well is 16-year-old Jordan Mitler.

Thank you all for joining us today for our next online Zoom class. We have a lot in store for you.

Every Sunday, Jordan teaches a free technology class designed specifically for seniors.

It all started back when he was a middle school and his family gave his grandparents a pair of smartphones.

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