Every Quarter

What does it mean to be born digital? How are adults and children navigating the ever-evolving and complex technological landscape of modern life? Are kids spending too much time on devices or are they using modern innovations to develop crucial life skills? Phillips Academy Head of School John Palfrey and Harvard Researcher Urs Gasser have spent years researching these topics and you might be surprised at what they've discovered.

In this special episode recorded live at the recent relaunch of Born Digital: How Children Grow Up in a Digital Age, Palfrey and Gasser moderate an open forum with local students and share many of their findings. The excerpted conversations present much more questions than answers but know that we are all continuously learning together and must continue to think about what’s next.

Read more on the EQ blog: : http://podcast.andover.edu/2016/12/07/episode-02-born-digital/

Our debut episode is a conversation about what it means to live a life of service. Commander Becky Dowling Calder '94 and Lieutenant Commander Laurie Coffey '95, two legendary Andover athletes, could have played college basketball anywhere they wanted. They each chose Annapolis and went on to fly F/A-18 Hornets at the highest level, selflessly serving and protecting our country for the past twenty years. Why? The lifelong friends returned to campus recently to commemorate Veterans Day and were gracious enough to answer that question and more.

Visit the EQ blog: https://podcast.andover.edu/2016/11/17/episode-01/