Change Talkship: Transforming Education for the 21st Century | Tony Wagner | Talks at Google
The Change Leadership Group at the Harvard School of Education has, through its work with educators, developed a thoughtful approach to the transformation of schools in the face of increasing demands for accountability. This book brings the work of the Change Leadership Group to a broader audience, providing a framework to analyze the work of school change and exercises that guide educators through the development of their practice as agents of change. It exemplifies a new and powerful approach to leadership in schools.
About Tony: Tony Wagner recently accepted a position as the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard. Prior to this, he was the founder and co-director of the Change Leadership Group at the Harvard Graduate School of Education for more than a decade.
Tony consults widely to schools, districts, and foundations around the country and internationally. His previous work experience includes twelve years as a high school teacher, K-8 principal, university professor in teacher education, and founding executive director of Educators for Social Responsibility.
Tony is also a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and a widely published author. His work includes numerous articles and five books. Tony's latest, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World, has just been published by Simon & Schuster. His recent book, The Global Achievement Gap: Why Even Our Best Schools Don't Teach the New Survival Skills Our Children Need-and What We Can do About It has been a best seller and is being translated into Chinese. Tony's other titles include: Change Leadership: A Practical Guide to Transforming Our Schools, Making the Grade: Reinventing America's Schools, and How Schools Change: Lessons from Three Communities Revisited. He has also recently collaborated with noted filmmaker Robert Compton to create a 60 minute documentary, "The Finnish Phenomenon: Inside The World's Most Surprising School System."
Tony earned an M.A.T. and an Ed.D. at the Harvard University Graduate School of Education.
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I can't believe this is 10 years old. It's still very relevant.
Thank you
Pursue a passion instead of academic excellence. According to John Holt in "How Children Learn", this is how kids actually learn. They learn because of their desire to learn. From play to passion to purpose. Read about Alexander Neill's "Summerhill" founded in 1921 in England for "troubled kids". The kids there play and play and play until they acquire a passion to learn. One of John Holt's fellow teachers said, "If we taught children to speak, they'd never learn".
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Sound great
at minute 37 he mentions digital portfolios
at minute 16: PLAY >> PASSION >> PURPOSE
start watching at 44 minutes. There is a short film embedded in the video. fascinating. "What am I doing to prepare my child to innovate?" Children should be ready to innovate, ..... not everyone needs to be ready for college." "Everyone is here for a reason. If you don't use your talent, you are taking away from the world. You need to play your part in the ecosystem." Minute 51:49 Jodie Wu "Design thinking is about asking the right questions, more about Art than about Science." President of Olin College of Engineering
I made my comments in response to the material in the video. So start reading them from the bottom
33:36 Shade on everyone lol
We've been trained (programmed) to buy on credit. Immediate gratification--never mind about tomorrow. Paraphrasing Edward Bernays: The purpose of advertising (propaganda) is to convince people to buy what they don't need. Young people offer creative solutions, but the established dogma (or vested interests) slaps them down. I prefer hiring a high school drop-out over the valedictorian. Aren't teachers forced to follow the curriculum set by the morons on the curriculum committee?
The information that public schools train students to memorize is useless, and sometimes incorrect. Memorize uselss information, regurgitate it on a standardized test, and you get a piece of paper. Curiosity and imagination are natural traits of young children. But regimented compulsory schooling factories destroy them. Read the books by John Holt. All economies depend on consumer spending. But spending on what, goods made in the US or those made in China? Spending on goods or services?