Please join the conversation with Dr. Eli Gottlieb, Visiting Associate Professor, George Washington University, as he presents "Identity Formation in the Digital Age" on Wednesday, October 30, 2019 in Room 114, The Education Building.

"The internet has revolutionized how we communicate and left almost no area of our everyday lives untouched - from how we shop and entertain ourselves to how we debate political questions and tend to our most intimate relationships. Discussions of what these changes mean for education tend to focus on students' cognition - how they think, learn, acquire and evaluate knowledge.
In this talk, Dr. Eli Gottlieb will focus instead on what they mean for students' identities - their sense of who they are as individuals and members of communities. Is the ideal of a stable, integrated self still feasible? And if not, what are the alternatives? Are the internet and social media making young people more self-obsessed, conformist and fragile? And if so, what, if anything, can we do about it? What are the effects of simultaneous participation in multiple, virtual communities on personal virtues such as commitment and consistency? And how, in the digital age, might we help young people develop a healthy sense of who they are and where they belong?"

This event is sponsored by the Concentration in Education and Jewish Studies, Stanford GSE and the Stanford History Education Group.