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Interview: Professor Howard Gardner

Watch the interview with Professor Howard Gardner who talks about the opportunities and threats digital technologies offer to education and learning.

08 November 2013

In this interview, Howard Gardner, Hobbs Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, talks about what digital technologies can offer learning.

He also considers the potential threats they pose to a well-rounded education.

Professor Gardner is a recipient of the MacArthur Prize Fellowship, the University of Louisville Grawemeyer Award in Education, and the Prince of Asturias Award for Social Sciences.

He is a leading thinker about education and human development and has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics.

For more on Professor Howard Gardner recap on the event he spoke at here at Nesta.

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