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Starred Review on January 3, 2014 | Nonfiction
In this short, dense work, coauthors Gardner (Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education, Harvard; senior director, Harvard Project Zoo), of "multiple intelligences" fame, and Davis (iSchool, Univ. of Washington) delve into the world of apps and their effect on children and adolescents. Armed with results from focus groups, surveys, and mixed-method studies with teachers, psychologists, and youth from ages ten to 25, their study explores the implications of apps through identity, intimacy, and imagination. The authors see the computer tool...Log In or Sign Up to Read More