Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner at TEDxNYED
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- 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 to rave reviews. His 2008 book, The Global Achievement Gap has been an international best seller and is being translated into Chinese. Tony has also recently collaborated with noted filmmaker Robert Compton to create a 60 minute documentary, "The Finland 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.
Great speech, Tony! I particularly liked the following statement of yours:
“Knowledge ist a commodity. [...] What the world cares about
is not what you know but what you can do with what you know."
So happy to find this! I have been saying "it's not what you know, but how you use it that matters" in front of an audiences for years now. Even in front of 100 candidates at Amazon, people were shocked by the message. How can that be? Right on Tony Wagner!
"What the world cares about is not what you know, but what you can DO with what you know" bang on! This is as close to my teaching philosophy as i have ever heard.
What the world cares about is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know.
Adding to Tony's list of successfull Harvard dropouts, my top 7:
7. Cole Porter (Composer)
6. Robert Frost (Poet)
5. Matt Damon (Actor)
4. Edwin H. Land (Polaroid)
3. William R. Hearst (Newspapers)
2. Mark Zuckerberg (Facebook)
1. Bill Gates (Microsoft)
Conclusion: Dropout.
(If you haven an idea what to do with your time - and make a difference!)
Love that Tony is challenging everyone to be part of the solution by modeling the values of innovation. Why would anyone settle when it is possible to make a difference in our world and create real solutions to real problems for real customers. Whether a mentor or an entrepreneur inspire the next generation forward.
Wonderful summary of the principles and issues in his book, Creating Innovators. I'm really enjoying thinking through his ideas and the evidence supplied in the book. Great stuff! I like the experience of reading the book as well - it's own 'innovative' experience!
Thank u all very much
Wow, I wish more people would see this to change the way we educate and hire people...
Application, WOW, thought my thinking was outrageous, the system must change along with the change that's occurring every day. BRAVO!
Many truths about learning. We have to innovate and motivate students to be facilitators and work with their multiple intelligences so that all have opportunities to be creative and autonomous Excellent talk
Incredible discussion. I completely agree. The educational system does not teach the skills necessary to compete in today's economy.
I agree - although screen time might be more and more needful in our age of technology. Encourage a balance between computer time and good old-fashioned imaginative play.
Great talk about the new three P's let's mingle them with the three P's for sustainability: People Planet Profit and combine them with lot's of Pleasure and Peace.
So now we have the 8 P's to help our generation to be the new innovaters of a new world.
Play, Pleasure, People, Passion, Planet, Profit, Purpose, Peace
I enjoyed every minute of this talk. It gave me a sort of guideline in raising my kids. I really liked the intrinsic motivation part.
He's a good speaker, too!
Olin College getting the well deserved name drop here. I think it speaks for itself.
The education system is evolving but not at a fast-enough rate. Why? There are key contributors that include but are not limited to, federal and state legislation, colleges, and funding. To keep up the key is providing educators with their own learning experiences that are focused on the competencies that inspire tomorrow's Guo Pei, Steve Jobs, Bill Gates, and Sunita Narain. It's about the what, why, and how. Our educators don't know and understand the key skills and competencies to effectively unlock every students potential. Despite any social, emotional, or economic challenge, research has proven the educators are the key to success. Great learning can happen everywhere now. Do our educators know how to unlock it's true potential?
amazing, totally agree, how do we go around the current schools? There is the key. In Latin America? more difficult but no impossible.
Very true. Very important. Very eye opening.
there is no innovation without trial and error
Loved this...
Genius!
This is great, in the sense that it tells us--convinces us--THAT we need to change. But I am frustrated that nowhere can I get a concrete plan, with specific examples, for HOW to change. Lots of ethereal philosophies, but very little useful content. Yes, we should take risks, be willing to fail--but what does that look like? HOW do we encourage that in our students?
1: Never ever teach anything to anybody.
2: Let them play freely. Provide the safe background for that, and answer their questions when they ask you.
3: Enjoy it or look for another job.
So simple.
If you can't do it it a school you work, than open a new school, if it doesn't fit in the system, than do it outside of it.
It is as simple as hard it can be to implement.
Excellent question. The root problem is that we lack consensus about WHAT the new objectives of education are (and how to measure those). (There is a reasonably forming consensus about HOW to teach ... but not what.) Tony is "promoting" a set of new objectives (in more detail elsewhere) ... but a sufficient number of influencers have not converged to form consensus and thus a path forward. So, as best i have found, even to date, you're left looking for people breaking the mold and creating other models, finding those relevant enough, and building from there. He mentions Olin College - great example of an Engineering college. Kahn rebooted a 2.0 version of their schools even realizing they missed the proper trajectory in their first evolution (after Gates foundation stepped in and challenged them to up their game). And there are myriad other practitioners out there reinventing in different contexts. BUT, as far as i know, scale-able blue prints of HOW (that you can contextualize to your situation) ... are not available yet.
The real question you have to answer is what you truly believe are the new objectives (for 21st century work) and how humans learn. The rest is a lot lot of hard work and (as he says !) iteration.
I know you wrote this 2 years ago, Beauty Fashion lover, but here's something to think about. Look up Damen Lopez and his book, "No Excuses University: How Six Exceptional Systems Are Revolutionizing Our Schools." The chapters are short and easy to understand. In Chapter 2, it doesn't explain JUST about that we need change but also goes into HOW to change. It's called "Let's BE the Research!" It is amazing, and the book will change your life. I will definitely be incorporating many of the practices into my curriculum when I start teaching.
love how captions end up as "Owen College" instead of Olin College!
Amazing
it is very interesting, and is so true: Play, passion, purpose.
Brilliant!….
Could you provide a title? I would like to watch that video too.
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1:43 "What the world cares about is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know."
Well, if a child grows up in a Chinese public school, he'll be constantly told: what happens outside school has nothing to do with you, what you need to do is to get a high score in a standardized test. Instead, they should be told: with what you already know, make a difference, create a better world.
In fact, Chinese education is also changing. Some ideas of the old generation are no longer applicable today. Due to the popularization of information and Internet and the development of economy, the new generation of teachers also have a new generation of education methods and concepts. You can also find out about many public and private schools in Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and Chengdu. What you are saying is actually a stereotype of the past.
Please, somebody tell me the name of the he mentioned as being the best school in the country!
Olin College of Engineering, www.olin.edu/
I'm going to be a future teacher for little kids where do I contact this guy?
Steve Jobs was not a Havard dropout.
Tony doesn't say that.
The last word he speaks of his sentences is almost always too soft to hear.
Unfortunately, there is lots of politics and little actions when it comes to reinventing our eduation system...
two words.... Tiger Moms.
They dont fit in with this at all!
Get the crap out of your ears then, cause I can hear him.