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    Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
    Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
    Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
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    Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

    Written by Tony Wagner

    Narrated by Holter Graham

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    Tony Wagner’s groundbreaking bestseller—“a road map for parents who want to sculpt their children into innovative thinkers” (USA TODAY) and a guide for “an employer looking to have a pipeline of creative talent” (Tim Brown, CEO of IDEO).

    Harvard education expert Tony Wagner explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. In profiling compelling young American innovators such as Kirk Phelps, product manager for Apple’s first iPhone, and Jodie Wu, who founded a company that builds bicycle-powered maize shellers in Tanzania, Wagner reveals how the adults in their lives nurtured their creativity and sparked their imaginations, while teaching them to learn from failures and persevere. Play, passion, and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators.

    Wagner takes readers into the most forward-thinking schools, colleges, and workplaces in the country, where teachers and employers are developing cultures of innovation based on collaboration, interdisciplinary problem-solving, and intrinsic motivation. The result is a timely, provocative, and inspiring manifesto that offers crucial insight into creating the change makers of tomorrow.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherSimon & Schuster Audio
    Release dateApr 17, 2012
    ISBN9781442354807
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    Tony Wagner

    Tony Wagner currently serves as an Expert In Residence at Harvard University’s Innovation Lab. Previously he has worked as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility. Tony is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and the author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap.

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    • 5/5
      Creating Innovators is a monograph that will inspire you to examine education or upset you on how education is handled today. The book is highly recommended for academic and professional collections, lower-division undergraduate and above.
    • 2/5
      I loved the "Global Information Gap", but this one is slooow going for me (stuck in the intro after making several attempts to move through it).
    • 4/5
      Wagner is a Harvard professor whose passion is cultivating and seeking innovation in American schools, preschool through higher ed. Using examples of exemplary students, teachers, schools, countries (here's Finland again), and parents, Wagner's profiles augment his stance that our educational system needs to change in order to feed the minds and imaginations of the next generation of innovators. The book is an innovation in and of itself as well; over 60 unique videos are embedded within the (e)book, embedded within the print edition (QR codes) or available on his website.
    • 4/5
      Innovation is important to our economy. There are fewer routine jobs, and more jobs that require problem solving and an innovative focus. In [Creating Innovators], Tony Wagner uses dozens of case studies to explore how parents, teachers, and employers can help young people develop the capacity and passion for innovation. Wagner casts his net widely. He focuses not only on innovation in the areas of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM), but also on social innovators, and he draws the conclusion that all innovators benefit from play, passion, and purpose. He suggests that traditional educational systems often discourage innovative thinking and that radical changes are needed to create innovators. He recommends learning that is focused around solving real problems in collaboration with others in an empowering environment. The basic ideas in this book were not new to me. I've done some research on innovation in the workplace and am aware of the factors that support innovation and those that squelch it. However, I was fascinated by the specific examples of schools that are trying radically different approaches to create innovators. It is these examples that will stick with me and shape my own approach in the classroom. I also commend Wagner for partnering with video producer Robert A. Compton to develop videos clips that can be accessed by scanning the QR codes throughout the book. I didn't always interrupt my reading to watch the videos as the QR codes appeared in the text, but I was happy to see a book about innovation using an innovative approach to its content.
    • 3/5
      A thought-provoking look at how we help our kids to develop those creative skills that lead to innovation
    • 4/5
      If you are a teacher or a parent of a child younger than high school age - read the book. Although it is not as crucial and compelling to me as his previous work, Global Achievement Gap, (which all teachers should read), this is a really important topic that people in education should be thinking about and then acting on, instead of trying to figure out how many standardized tests to give.

      I appreciate that Wagner wanted to integrate technology with the different video clips accessible by smartphone tags... but I am a person without a smartphone or tag tech, so I missed out on some things, and I was a little disappointed that there wasn't a way to allow the reader to watch those clips without a smartphone.