Play, passion, purpose: Tony Wagner at TEDxNYED

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.

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[Daniel Fender]

Some very interesting insights here: Fail early and fail often. Play to passion to purpose...

[lego6245]

Olin College getting the well deserved name drop here. I think it speaks for itself.

[BillBanks Stroud]

Incredible discussion. I completely agree. The educational system does not teach the skills necessary to compete in today's economy.

[iiAngelic]

there is no innovation without trial and error

[GSCanal]

Susan Cain: The power of introverts

[pdcrew2]

Could you provide a title? I would like to watch that video too.

[BANGBANGBANGBBANG]

i just watched a ted talk that said the complete opposite about team vs individual work, ie that group work is overemphasized that 40% of us are introverts and need to work alone so we can innovate

[Peggy Gibbs]

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.

[tellmemoar]

Standardize? or Standard"lies"...?

[Rik Konings]

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

[abc114able]

Get the crap out of your ears then, cause I can hear him.

[Aadel Bussinger]

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.