”IN THIS GROUNDBREAKING BOOK, education expert Tony Wagner
provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven
economy. He 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. Wagner identifies a pattern—a childhood of creative play
leads to deep-seated interests, which in adolescence and adulthood
blossom into a deeper purpose for career and life goals. Play, passion,
and purpose: These are the forces that drive young innovators.
Wagner
shows how we can apply this knowledge as educators and what parents can
do to compensate for poor schooling. He 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 will change how we look at our schools and workplaces, and provide
us with a road map for creating the change makers of tomorrow.
Creating Innovators will
feature its own innovative elements: more than sixty original videos
that expand on key ideas in the book through interviews with young
innovators, teachers, writers, CEOs, and entrepreneurs, including Thomas
Friedman, Dean Kamen, and Annmarie Neal. Produced by filmmaker Robert
A. Compton, the videos are embedded into the ebook edition in
video-enabled eReaders and accessible in this print edition via QR codes
placed throughout the chapters or via www.creatinginnovators.com.”(Amazon.com.)
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