Educating the Next Generation of Innovators
The three "R"s are still important, but our guest says that to prepare your teen for the brave new world we need to encourage the four "C"s -critical and creative thinking, collaboration and communication. Tune in to find out how to develop these critical skills in your children. Tony Wagner is the first Innovation Education Fellow at the Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard and author of Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change The World. Anthony Cody worked in the high poverty schools in Oakland for 24 years, 18 of them as a middle school science teacher and writes the popular Education Week blog, Living in Dialogue.