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His most recent book, Five Minds for the Future, offers some advice for policy-makers on how to do a better job of preparing students for the 21st century. Mind Matters editor Jonah Lehrer chats with Gardner about his new book, the possibility of teaching ethics and how his concept of multiple intelligences has changed over time.

This project was created to inspire teachers to use technology in engaging ways to help students develop higher level thinking skills. Equally important, it...

Good for more background on Thinking Routines as related to the Look to Learn approach.

Routines exist in all classrooms; they are the patterns by which we operate and go about the job of learning and working together in a classroom environment. A routine can be thought of as any procedure, process, or pattern of action that is used repeatedly to manage and facilitate the accomplishment of specific goals or tasks.

In the project's first position paper, "Developing Minds and Digital Media: Habits of Mind in the YouTube Era" (http://www.pz.harvard.edu/eBookstore/PDFs/GoodWork51.pdf), authors Margaret Weigel and Katie Heikinnen have synthesized the leading theories of cognitive development (Piaget, Vygotsky, Bruner, Erikson), education and media studies (Turkle, Papert, Jenkins), and empirical findings about young people's digital media.