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Did you watch We Day? 20,000 teens cheering and celebrating the way they choose to use their power to make changes for the good. One of the consistent messages of Craig Kielburger and Free the Children is that 1) young people have power, whether purchasing power, or persuasive power, or time and talent and 2) …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/10/07/how-do-we-use-power/
I pulled out all my favorite books on leadership in the process of co-authoring the new What Do You Mean I’m in Charge? Leadership Skills for Teens. Setting a good example, I checked over the last ten years of best sellers and the books being ordered by professors in graduate schools of leadership. It wasn’t …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/09/29/leadership-can-girls-rise-to-the-challenge/
May droplets of sunshine mix with dappled shadows of autumn leaves to blanket the path you walk today. At twelve years old, my daughter attended a Leadership Conference in Toronto, Canada. She stayed a week with hundreds of children as young as nine and as old as twenty from around the world. Each …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/09/21/not-merely-future-leaders-but-leaders-today/
Tuesday night over forty people gathered in a Community College classroom focused on how the FIRST series of robotics competitions can empower our children to develop 21st century skills. Co-presenting with me were five area young people experienced with FIRST robotics, Katrina, a 7th grader who had been competing with the FIRST Lego League …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/09/15/leadership-opportunities-needed/
I want to extend a special thank you to all the fantastic parents, educators, business leaders, and committed community members who attended last night’s Beaver County STEM Advocacy Coalition. Nineteen people gathered at the local community college to share resources, energy, and enthusiasm for growing a generation of innovators, trained in Science, Technology, Engineering and …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/09/08/stumbling-blocks-to-innovation-motivation/
I attended the Pittsburgh STEM Summit yesterday, phenomenal gathering and a fantastic celebration of the strides being made by the business community, K-12, technical and university educational communities, and our local culture to respond to the need for a 21st century workforce. Yet an aura of caution surrounded the enthusiasm. The Pittsburgh Technology Council (host …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/09/01/stumbling-blocks-to-innovation-fear/
Innovation is an essential skill for the 21st century. Can it be taught? Absolutely! Skills are taught through modeling (that is surrounding the student with effective models and examples), by opportunities to practice the skill (project based learning), and by feedback that helps them internalize the changes they need to make to improve their practice …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/08/25/teaching-innovation/
I watched video footage of the London riots dismayed by images of young people striking out with such violent fear of the future and utter disregard for the property of others. No one explanation suffices. One writer, picking up on tweets and social media posts, claimed these teens and young adults are frustrated by unemployment …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/08/16/london-riots-and-first-robotics/
“We are not preparing children for the world we have lived in but for a future that we can barely imagine.” Gordon Brown, former dean of the MIT EngineeringSchool. Jeff Jarvis, author of What Would Google Do?, differentiates between a politically conservative attitude of scarcity and ‘can’t do’ and an innovative engineering attitude of abundance and …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/08/08/imagineers-and-stem-education/
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral. ~Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Flight to Arras, 1942 Do you consider yourself an innovator? One component is creativity, thinking up novel and unique ideas. We are far from unraveling the complexity of imagination, …
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Permanent link to this article: https://growageneration.com/2011/08/01/the-possibles-slow-fuse-lit-by-imagination/
