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

A great book for educators that helps understand what is truly important to teach students who need to be effective, agile and adaptable to today's changing world. Thank you M. Wagner!!

Excellent book. Well contextualized. It gives great examples and scenarios of how education has changed and what it needs to look like in the future.This is an important book because it provides a strong argument for the metamorphosis of traditional education.

In general, I enjoy books about the cutting edge in education and Professor Wagner’s book is no different. He takes us around the country to various schools that are doing some very interesting things in the classroom and introduces us to some great students. From the point of view of an educator and parent, it is wonderful to know what is going on out there. As is usual with these kinds of books, however, I am not as convinced as Wagner that every child will benefit by a change to his system of schools.Wagner is convinced that knowledge is less important to the modern student than the ability to innovate and he deplores the fact that so few children are given an environment to grow as innovators. Certainly, the ability to innovate is important and students who have that strength should be given the opportunity to grow it. On the other hand, I don’t see convincing evidence that every child would shine in the environments Wagner describes any more than every child shines in the schools we have now. Unfortunately, most of us are not able to envision a school system that actually encompasses everyone’s strengths, no matter what they happen to be and, until that kind of vision takes hold of our culture (and our universities), it is very difficult to make effective changes.In some sense, this book models the pointlessness of innovation for innovation’s sake. I took the time to download the app and watched all the videos that were interweaved into the text. These videos (most of which were less than 2 minutes and consisted of interviews with the people in the book) are mainly repetitive of what was already said in the text and added little to the argument, unless you are the type of person who needs to have a face connected to a quote. Perhaps this video addition counts as innovative, but I found it to be irritating rather than enlightening.In the end, however, Wagner has a number of good things to say and presents ideas that need to be addressed. He may not have the answer to everything in education, but he asks good questions and the people and schools he examines may be part of the larger answer to making our educational system work in the twenty-first century.

I cannot thank Mr. Wagner enough for writing this book. This is exactly what every school teacher and principal (and administrator) should read this summer and start applying in their schools this Fall. Creating Innovators is a quick read that gives parents, teachers, anyone the encouragement needed to support creativity in their children. Bottom line: Give children and young adults more unstructured free time to play, let children follow their passions and support their passions no matter how cray you think they are a the moment. After you ready the various kid's stories presented in Creating Innovators, who come from a variety of social-economic backgrounds, you will be SO inspired that anything is possible. My ebook downloaded seamlessly through my Kindle app on my iPad. Watched all the great video snippets of the kids and teachers highlighted in the book. The ideas presented in this book should be the starting point of education reform in this country! We don't need more testing, we need more innovating!

Wagner uses not so conventional research methods, but very efficient (repeated interviews, case studies with one person, but deeply conducted), establishing vivid relation with his study “objects”, aiming at founding common traces of innovators. Results are striking, since nurturing in family, through high school and college, till worklife, not only in relation to studied cases, but also in relation to tutors found in schools and colleges – some were typical outsiders, couldn’t have tenure, because they weren't “researchers” in canonical shape, but were fantastic “educators” and “innovators”. Our educational institutions are not good places for learning anymore, because they pertain to a gone era and cannot change themselves. They don’t perceive that, to transform society and economy (knowledge economy), they need first transform themselves – a matter of simple coherence. It’s possible to create innovators, but only innovators do create innovators. Very nice and innovative book.

Muy buena lectura, el panorama presentado es muy bueno. Esta lectura debe ser obligatoria a los papas, maestros y hasta los empresarios (si solo requieren subutilizar a los profesionales o realmente requieren personas hagan crecer la empresa)

This book is a thought shifter. It was recommended to my by a colleague who thinks, really thinks deeply about business and it’s future needs. I figured that if it brought him to ask some searching questions, then it would be worth reading, I was right. If you are interested in how we should be educating our young now to thrive in a fast changing society, this is quite simply a must read!

good book

Hoewel het boek betrekking heeft op de amerikaanse onderwijssituatie, neem het boek wel een prikkelende stelling in tegen de huidige onderwijs situatie.

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