[focus] FOCUS cross-generational dialogue comes to a close
Over the course of April and going through to the beginning of May, Global Kids, in partnership with Common Sense Media and Harvard's GoodPlay Project, held the first ever cross-generational online dialogues about the promise and perils of the digital age. I'm happy to share that the dialogues were a success, generating over 2,500 posts in over 200 distinct topics from over 250 registrants. Also, to our knowledge none of the teen participants run away from the dialogues, slamming their bedroom doors behind them and yelling "You just don't understand me!". :D That's to say that we were impressed both by the depth and nuance of the discourse as well as the civility and mutual respect shown by both sides. Yes, it is possible to actually talk about these issues!
We're now going to start the process of analyzing the content of the dialogues with the aim of sharing a set of takeaways with the public about what it means to be engaging in cross-generational conversation on these issues. In the meantime though, we figured we could direct people to full content of the dialogues so that they could see for themselves. The participants were broken into three smaller groups, following these links will bring you to the content of each group.
Enjoy!
