The iPad Summit officially kicked off with its keynote address given by Harvard Professor Dr. Tony Wagner. Dr. Wagern is the author of the best selling book, Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People who will Change the World.
His talk focused on the changing needs of young people – innovation and creativity. What is most challenging for students and teachers is that we need to adapt our teaching and learning to incorporate failure. WIthout risk (and failure) there is no innovation. A highlight of his speech is below:
Dear Jen,
I heard Tom Daccord speak at FETCin January and have been eager to learn more about the iPad summit. Thanks for sharing what you are learning! I’ll be pouring over your blog in the next few days.
Anissa
Thanks Anissa, will you be attending the iPad Summit in Atlanta? I’ll be presenting and live blogging (as much as I can). It was such a great experience!
I can’t attend in April but will look to attend the next iPad Summit. I’ll have to learn vicariously through you, so be sure to write everything down in your blog!
I’ll
Be blogging as much as possible!