Great vid! I absolutely feel that the ideas are highly relevant and touching. Dr. Wagner has put what is required of 21st century teachers in the most organized and convincing manner possible.
Actually, the best education system is in China, being at the low 10% of the GDP per capita, China's scores are no.1 in the world on PISA, twice in a row (2009,2012), cross board (math, reading science). No one in the world can achieve that, not yet, definitely not Finland. No one are more creative than Chinese people, no one has more entrepreneurship than us Chinese people. Tony Wagner is all wrong: creativity/innovation can NOT be taught; it is something born with and triggered by needs and achieved by skill.
In his need for emphasis he is just too sure of himself and too loud... and what he's saying, especially at the beginning, is just what everyone else has said a thousand times: the formulation of the problems is more important... the information is now free on the internet... information is constantly changing (not true; it is constantly expanding or refined)... and what with his saying Whatever you thought you KNEW is not longer true?? wow!! This is the sort of "lecture" to inspire teenagers with not much knowledge, those for whom platitudes evoke so much enthusiasm and feelings of "can do" attitudes, like salesmen are fed before going out to sell; or football players half-time motivational talks. I was expecting more, a lot more, from a "world renown speaker" like him!! I know you're going to get pissed at me here, but forget that, tell me where I'm wrong??
