Parent Edge presents: KATIE DAVIS- discussing The App Generation: How today's youth navigate Identity, Intimacy and Imagination in a Digital World- Monday March 30th- 7:00 PM- Mercer Island High School PAC- 9100 SE 42nd Street

The metaphor of the “app” will serve to illuminate those uses of technology that promote a strong sense of identity, encourage deep relationships and stimulate creativity, and those that thwart youth’s development in these three realms.

Learn about the potentials and drawbacks of new media technology for young people, based on an extensive research program at Harvard University and what is means to be “app-dependent” vs “app-enabled” and how life for this generation differs from life before the digital area.

Katie Davis is an Assistant Professor at The University Of Washington Information School where she studies the role of digital media technologies in adolescents’ academic, social and moral lives. She also serves as an advisory board member for MTV’s digital abuse campaign. Davis holds two Masters Degrees and a Doctorate in Human Development and Education from Harvard Graduate School of Education. Davis co-wrote with Howard Gardner THE APP GENERATION: HOW TODAY’S YOUTH NAVIGATE IDENTITY, INTIMACY AND IMAGINATION IN A DIGITAL WORLD-

This event is free for MI PTA Members and $10.00 for non PTA Members