num_pages: 288
description: From a prominent educator author and founder of Harvards Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is todays most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents teachers and employers to become the innovators of Americas future.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 Apples 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 patterna 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 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 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.
language: English
title: Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World
publisher: Scribner