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Big Thinkers: Howard Gardner on Digital Youth

The founder of multiple-intelligences theory discusses the challenges ethics and education face as digital media become more prevalent.

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Release Date: 5/27/2009
Running Time: 05:17 min

Video Credits

Produced and Directed by

  • Ken Ellis

Coordinating Producer

  • Lauren Rosenfeld

Production Support

  • Amy Erin Borovoy

Production Assistant

  • Doug Keely

Camera Crew

  • Sam Painter
  • David Mitlyng

Senior Video Editor

  • Karen Sutherland
  • © 2009
  • The George Lucas Educational Foundation
  • All rights reserved.

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Discussion Questions

1. What are specific ethical issues you see kids struggling when they use digital media?

2. How is our sense of identity changing in the digital world? How can adults learn from kids and guide them at the same time?

3. Digital tools make it extremely easy to communicate with anyone in the world. What are the opportunities and challenges for kids?

4. Do you think digital media are having a negative impact on kids' attention span? What are the implications for home and school?

5. How does teaching and learning change in a world where information is at your fingertips?


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Michael S.
Posted on 9/27/2009 3:45pm

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1. An ethical issue that I am finding is that students are becoming increasingly astute at plagiarism when doing assigned work.
2.Our sense of identity is changing due to the lack of communication with people that one meets. In today's world too many people are working solely on the computer and not allowing social interaction to occur. Adults can learn from kids and guide them by setting limits and showing responsibility.
3. The opportunity for kids is that almost anything they are interested is only a click away. Some challenges are that there are things digitally that kids should not be subject too at their ages.
4.I think at times digital media does have a negative impact on kids attention span. One implication is the lack of attentiveness when doing tasks that do not need digital resources.
5.I think teaching will expand and be more amazing but we have to remember that even though we have so many resources, if the person that is reading these resources does not understand them then its nothing more than pictures or words.

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