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Lexington Community Education presents: The App Generation with Howard Gardner
The App Generation: How Today's Youth Navigate Identity, Intimacy and Imagination In a Digital World - An Evening With Howard Gardner
No one has failed to notice that the current generation of youth is deeply - some would say totally - involved with digital media. Howard Gardner’s most recent book The App Generation, published with co-author Katie Davis, concerns the power of apps to shape adolescents and the way that digital technology is affecting young people’s lives in three key areas: identity, intimacy, and imagination.Drawing a distinction between app-enabled and app-dependent use of technology, Gardner will show how some apps have the potential to be beneficial tools.
Howard Gardner is the John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He also holds positions as Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Harvard University and Senior Director of Harvard Project Zero. Gardner has received numerous honors including a MacArthur Prize Fellowship. In 2005 and again in 2008, he was selected by Foreign Policy and Prospect magazines as one of the 100 most influential public intellectuals in the world. He is the author of twenty-nine books translated into thirty-two languages, and several hundred articles. Gardner is best known in educational circles for his theory of multiple intelligences. During the past two decades, Gardner and colleagues at Project Zero have been involved in the design of performance-based assessments; education for understanding; the use of multiple intelligences to achieve more personalized curriculum, instruction, and pedagogy; and the quality of interdisciplinary efforts in education. With Carrie James and other colleagues at Project Zero, he is also investigating the ethical dimensions entailed in the use of new digital media.
This event will be held on Tuesday, December 2nd from 7:00-8:30pm at the Lexington Depot, 13 Depot Square. The cost is $10.00 per person. Pre-registration required. To register, using a VISA or MasterCard, please contact Lexington Community Education at 781 862 8043.