Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
Creating Innovators, Tony Wagner
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Creating Innovators
The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World

Author: Tony Wagner

Narrator: Holter Graham

Unabridged: 9 hr 23 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/17/2012


Synopsis

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.

About 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.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Amy

This book has an excellent premise, and the first few chapters of theory were useful. However, the title would better reflect the content if it were called, "Interviews with People Who Parented Innovators." I thought the content could have been better distilled and organized. While many of the peopl......more

Goodreads review by Jeff

Tony Wagner's new book is pretty good. It is worth reading and there is some good stuff in there, but I was a little disappointed after reading the "Global Achievement Gap," which was one of the best books I've ever read on education. I suppose disappointment was inevitable. Wagner concludes that the......more

Goodreads review by Chris

Before you read this review please note that I read this book as someone who wants to learn more about building innovative environments for vendors and potential employees. I am not an educator. Tony Wagner explains how we as mentors, leaders, parents and teachers need to improve the development of y......more

Goodreads review by K.K.

Can be a little redundant, but extremely interesting and informative. Highly recommend the enhanced ebook on iPad. The integration of videos is excellent. I wish, though, that the book examined students whose gifts were in the arts. The author addresses this omission in the introduction, claiming (I......more