The App Generation- Howard Gardner



18th century individual and old worldy- Influenced the church
19th centruy started moving (following Lewis and Clark)- influenced by themselves
Era of mass society they all wanted to keep up with the Jones'- influenced by others
App generation- influenced by tech/apps

Historical Background
Erickson focused on youth in psychology.   Life is a set of crisis people have to solve.  The first crisis of youth is defining yourself.  What makes sense to you and what makes sense to other people. The crisis of young-adulthood is to for good, integral, meaningful relationships with other people.  The risk of being unable to solve this crisis of thinking you are in a group and actually being alone.  The last crisis of life is generativity where older people are looking at the world in a new way.
Data
Who are the kids who are not connected and why?

Pre-app age       VS    post-app age Art
                             |
Centered                |   Off center or partial
No backgrounds     |   backgrounds
Black and white      |    Color

the story provides more nuance than previous studies

Pre-app age       VS    post-app age Writing (voice, tense language, content, genre)

Fantasy                        Mundane
nonlinear                     chronological
1st or 2nd                    3rd person
Formal language             Slang

Bottom line creativity has not increased or decreased

The Circle by Dave Eggers- a distopian story about an app controlled world.

I stopped at 50 minutes to continue other work so more later, here is the video for now