Ted Dintersmith shares is vision of American education in the book Most Likely To Succeed! Tony Wagner is the bestselling author of Creating Innovators and The Global Achievement Gap. These guys want us to start concentrating on real learning and creative problem-solving, and the joy of discovery. Ted is a businessman who funded the documentary film that documents the history of education! This is a fantastic film that educators should view and discuss it's implications. It offers a deep look into new approaches to learning. Bring this film to your school.
It's well worth seeing.
Hosting a screening of Most Likely to Succeed or watch a trailer can be located by clicking on this link.
I salute Texas Computer Education Association & Best Buy for bring this film to the TCEA 2016 Conference in Austin, Texas.
Education Week Blog by By on March 6, 2015 5:00 AM In 1997 chess champ Gary Kasparov was beaten by a computer. Fourteen years later, IBM's Watson beat Ken Jennings in Jeopardy. By 2014, companies like Narrative Science are able to produce a coherent computer generated corporate earnings report. This "startling shift" according to MIT's Andrew McAfee signals the beginning of AI doing to white collar jobs what robotics did to blue collar jobs. The author of Race Against the Machine is featured in the film along with Ken Robinson, Tony Wagner, and Linda Darling Hammond.
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