Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
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| Rating | : | 4.77 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B007UWONEA |
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| Number of Pages | : | 558 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-08-21 |
| Language | : | English |
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Michael Ayers said Generally useful with cautions. Wagner's book makes a lot of sense. Let me first give him full credit for that. The critique he offers of our schools - K-16 - seems fair to me. The standardized test movement is plague that we need to eradicate from the country. We do need more creative thinking, and critical thinking, and most schools do not seem to be in that business. And I agree that it comes back to high-quality leadership - in schools, families, corporations, community organizations. But the book has shortcomings from my perspective. He distills lessons from a body of interviews and draws so. Inspired me to Build on my Passion k. smith Innovation is a topic I've been heavily researching the past few months and this book has helped me immensely. The author has added tons of sources which are all put perfectly into context including statistics and personal stories. The stories of different innovators and how they got to where they are today are more than inspiring and deserve to be heard by students around the globe. The argument made that schools are hindering creativity are heavily backed up by not only the author but direct quotes from successful people, some of whom have dropped out. What was t. "It's a lifelong process, not a destination." according to Ilya Grigorik. Creating Innovators offers an expose on what it takes to foster creative and entrepreneurial skills in students and adults alike - being an 'innovator' is not a destination, but a lifelong learning process. Tony Wagner provides a collection of interviews with a few students, parents, and their teachers, and tries to isolate the common threads: parenting styles, impact and role of mentors and teachers, and the role of the various educational institutions on their development.Given the small (and biased: US, middle-upper class, etc) sample size, it's hard to draw gen
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.. He explores what parents, teachers, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. Wagner explains how we can apply this knowledge as educators and what parents can do to compensate for poor schooling. In this groundbreaking book, education expert Tony Wagner provides a powerful rationale for developing an innovation-driven economy. Wagner identifies a pattern: