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Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World Hardcover – April 17, 2012

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From a prominent educator, author, and founder of Harvard’s Change Leadership Group comes a provocative look at why innovation is today’s most essential real-world skill and what young people need from parents, teachers, and employers to become the innovators of America’s 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 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.

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April 17, 2012
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Customers find the book easy to read and interesting. They appreciate the innovative concepts and ideas it provides for encouraging innovation in young minds. The design is praised as great and new. Readers appreciate the clear information and examples provided through the links. Many consider it an excellent resource and value for money. However, some customers experienced issues with the download speed on their iPads.

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52 customers mention "Readability"52 positive0 negative

Customers find the book easy to read and providing great ideas for innovators. They appreciate the interactive content and well-structured layout. The book provides a seamless way for students to blend reading assignments with video supplements.

"Excellent book. Well contextualized...." Read more

"...the country to various schools that are doing some very interesting things in the classroom and introduces us to some great students...." Read more

"...The plan of the book is sound, but I was left with a feeling I didn't really learn anything I didn't already know...." Read more

"...I've been heavily researching the past few months and this book has helped me immensely...." Read more

42 customers mention "Innovation"40 positive2 negative

Customers find the book provides interesting concepts and ideas for gifted education. They say it opens their minds to the education system in this country and develops a recipe for producing innovative minds. The stories are pertinent for budding innovators and provide great ideas for their development. The book is also useful for educators who believe in authentic learning for students.

"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..." Read more

"Excellent book. Well contextualized. It gives great examples and scenarios of how education has changed and what it needs to look like in the..." Read more

"...Certainly, the ability to innovate is important and students who have that strength should be given the opportunity to grow it...." Read more

"...Creating Innovators is a quick read that gives parents, teachers, anyone the encouragement needed to support creativity in their children...." Read more

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Customers find the book helpful for parents, teachers, and administrators. They say it encourages them to believe in their children and support them on their individual life paths.

"...Creating Innovators is a quick read that gives parents, teachers, anyone the encouragement needed to support creativity in their children...." Read more

"...Results are striking, since nurturing in family, through high school and college, till worklife, not only in relation to studied cases, but also in..." Read more

"...I have a much better understanding of play and it's influence on adulthood. I'm a better teacher/coach/educator because of Creating Innovators." Read more

"good book, which gives inspiration to see things different, to believe in your children and support then on their individual life paths" Read more

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Customers like the book's design. They say it looks brand new and is awesome.

"...Very nice and innovative book." Read more

"It truly is a grand design! A great infusion of digital and analog technology. Remember the printing press was just as innovative as the internet...." Read more

"Great inspirational book! Arrived on time and looks brand new!" Read more

"Very insightful look into the nature of today's innovators." Read more

5 customers mention "Information quality"5 positive0 negative

Customers appreciate the book's information quality. They find it full of great information and takeaways, with wonderful links to interviews that bring personal stories to life. The author has added tons of sources that are all put perfectly into context, including video interviews of educational innovators in the corporate and military worlds. They also enjoy the way the author puts clear examples through different links.

"...The author has added tons of sources which are all put perfectly into context including statistics and personal stories...." Read more

"...The wonderful links with interviews really brings the personal stories that are throughout this book alive!..." Read more

"...the park again with this innovative ebook which includes video interviews of educational innovators in the corporate, military, and academic world...." Read more

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Customers find the book offers good value for money. They say it's an excellent resource on how to encourage innovation in teenagers.

"cheap copy of the book, and mine was signed by the author, nice plus" Read more

"...sold back my other first semester books but had to keep this one, its worth it!" Read more

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"Excellent resource on how to encourage innovation in teenages..." Read more

4 customers mention "Video quality"4 positive0 negative

Customers enjoy the video quality of the book. They find the video snippets and embedded links enhance the content and quality. The videos bring ideas to life and are appreciated.

"...Watched all the great video snippets of the kids and teachers highlighted in the book...." Read more

"The enhanced e-book is the way to go! The videos greatly improved the content and quality of the book, and since they are embedded in the book, you..." Read more

"...Also, the videos that accompany the book, really bring the ideas alive." Read more

"Really appreciate the video links embedded into the text" Read more

6 customers mention "Download speed"0 positive6 negative

Customers are unhappy with the book's download speed. They say it doesn't load to their iPads, gets an error, and stops downloading after a while.

"...It starts to load and then stops and I get a download error. I can read it through the cloud reader app, but none of the video content works...." Read more

"It will not download into my apple IPAD's kindle reader, I wish I had bought the regular version.... I am not even going to ask for a refund, I am..." Read more

"This item also failed to load to my IPad. It would get about 7% downloaded and then fail...." Read more

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A happy reader
Excellent book for educators!!
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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!!

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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.

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Timothy Haugh
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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.

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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!

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Reviewed in the United States on January 28, 2014
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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.

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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)

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This made me question some assumed basics!
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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!

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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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