1. The App Generation MEGHAN GOEBEL CS408.02

2. The App Generation  “How today’s youth navigate identity, intimacy, and imagination in a digital world”  Written by: Howard Gardner and Katie Davis  Howard Gardner works at Harvard Graduate School and is the senior director of Harvard Project Zero  Katie Davis is an assistant professor and studies the role of digital media technologies in adolescents’ lives  Published in 2013

3. Our Generation  Our generation views the world as an ensemble of apps  We believe that an app should exist for whatever we want or need  There are many instances where applications have overwhelmingly taken over life tasks  Directions

4. App enabled versus dependent  App-enabling : apps that encourage the users to pursue new possibilities  App-dependent : apps that make us restrict our procedures or goals

5. The Three Topics  Identity : apps can force a prepackaged identity or lead you to a stronger and more powerful self.  Intimacy : apps can discourage face-to-face interactions or they can provide you to a much larger world.  Imagination : apps can either make us lazy or open up a whole new world for imagining and creating.

6. Important Quotes  “Could just the right ensemble of apps lead to a wholly hAPPy life? “ –Gardner & Davis  “Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without even thinking about them.” –Alfred White Northhead

7. Connection  In CS408 we dicuss ramifications of technology  In the app generation they discuss consequences of apps and other technologies  Evaluate using technology effectively  Technology in different generations

8. Recommendation  Eye opening to realize how immersed in technology our generation is  Slow read  Would only recommend if you are truly interested in the topic