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...
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.