{"id":30229,"date":"2012-04-20T02:07:22","date_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-conventional-schools-students-learn-so-that\/"},"modified":"2012-04-20T02:07:22","modified_gmt":"2012-04-20T02:07:22","slug":"in-conventional-schools-students-learn-so-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/in-conventional-schools-students-learn-so-that\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>In conventional schools, students learn so that they can get good grades. My most important research finding is that young innovators are intrinsically motivated. The culture of learning in programs that excel at educating for innovation emphasize what I call the three P\u2019s\u2014play, passion and purpose. The play is discovery-based learning that leads young people to find and pursue a passion, which evolves, over time, into a deeper sense of purpose.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Harvard\u2019s <strong>Tony Wagner<\/strong>, author of <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1451611498\/ref=as_li_ss_til?tag=exp-lore-20&amp;camp=0&amp;creative=0&amp;linkCode=as4&amp;creativeASIN=1451611498&amp;adid=0M3HZEA6PSQ6XNNPDNCY&amp;\">Creating Innovators: The Making of Young People Who Will Change the World<\/a><\/em>,\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424052702304444604577337790086673050.html\">ponders<\/a>\u00a0how we can educate the next Steve Jobs.<\/p>\n<p>Wagner\u2019s insights echo John Seely Brown\u2019s in the excellent\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2011\/01\/18\/a-new-culture-of-learning\/\">A New Culture of Learning: Cultivating the Imagination for a World of Constant Change<\/a><\/em>, as well as Sir Ken Robinson\u2019s vision for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2010\/10\/21\/sir-ken-robinson-rsa\/\">changing educational paradigms<\/a>\u00a0to better foster creativity.<\/p>\n<p> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/exp.lore.com\/\" class=\"tumblr_blog\">explore-blog<\/a>)<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In conventional schools, students learn so that they can get good grades. My most important research finding is that young innovators are intrinsically motivated. The culture of learning in programs that excel at educating for innovation emphasize what I call the three P\u2019s\u2014play, passion and purpose. The play is discovery-based learning that leads young people [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[],"tags":[1538],"class_list":["post-30229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","tag-humane-games","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-7Rz","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}