Creating innovators : the making of young people who will change the world /
By: Wagner, Tony
Title By: Compton, Robert A
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BookPublisher: New York : Scribner, 2012.Description: xviii, 270 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 9781451611496Subject(s): Education, Secondary -- Aims and objectives -- United States | Educational change -- United States | Technological innovations -- United States | Secondary education -- United States | Technological innovations -- United StatesDDC classification: 373 Online resources: Location Map | Item type | Home library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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| REGULAR | University of Wollongong in Dubai Main Collection | 373 WA CR (Browse shelf) | Available | T0048422 |
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| 372.7049 CL LE Learning and teaching early math : | 372.89 PI PR Primary humanities : | 372.941 PA BU Building skills for effective primary teaching : | 373 WA CR Creating innovators : | 373.1 HE EN Engaging, motivating and empowering learners in schools | 373.1102 GR FR The Freedom writers diary : | 373.12011 FL SU Successful middle leadership in secondary schools : |
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.
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.