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Wagner, Tony.
Creating innovators :
the making of young people who will change the world /
Tony Wagner ; with supplementary video material by Robert A. Compton.
1st Scribner hardcover ed.
New York :
Scribner,
2012.
xviii, 270 p. :
ill. ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 255-262) and index.
A note on how to use this book -- Introduction -- A primer on innovation -- Portrait of the innovator as a young man -- STEM innovators -- Social innovators -- Innovating learning -- The future of innovation -- Epilogue: letter to a young innovator -- Afterword / by Robert A. Compton.
Kirkus Review, April 2012.
Kirkus Review.
Examines the backgrounds of young innovators to see how they developed the creative minds to produce those innovations and examines what teachers, parents, and employers must do to develop the capacities of young people to become innovators. Includes QR Codes within the text that can be accessed using a smart phone, linking the reader to videos and other information that expands on key ideas in the book.
Adult
Follett Library Resources.
Adult.
20121204.
Education, Secondary
Aims and objectives
United States.
Educational change
United States.
Technological innovations
United States.
Secondary education
United States.
Compton, Robert A.