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New Lego keynote available to view and download

I recently keynoted the Lego Foundation conference in Denmark. I talked about the importance of disciplined play in an innovation economy. The video includes a 5 minute clip from our forthcoming major documentary film on reimagining education for the 21st century, to be released early next year.  My TED-style 15 minute keynote can be viewed and downloaded here.  To sign up for updates on our new film, click here.

Tony is invited to speak at Thomas Friedman’s conference & introduces Deeper Learning videos for the Teaching Channel

More information about Thomas Friedman’s June 2014 conference can be found here. Tony’s video introduction to the series of 10 Deeper Learning videos can be viewed here.

Tony’s two new high quality TED-style videos now available for viewing

These two 15 minute high quality videos were recorded at Atlanta’s Co-Lab Summit in September 2013. Tony talks about the economy, the need for innovation, and the contradictions between the culture of schooling versus the culture of innovation in video 1. In video 2, he offers a new, abbreviated description of the 7 Survival Skills, and what an Accountability 2.0 system, which assesses the skills that matter most, would look like. The end of Video 2 includes an outstanding 5 minute video excerpt from an upcoming feature length documentary that Tony has been working on with Ted Dintersmith. It shows a 9th grade project at High Tech High and is an outstanding example of what 21c education can and should look like.  Great for community or faculty showings. Both can be viewed here.

Harvard Ed Review gives Creating Innovators a rave review

Read the full review here.

Tony’s Gallup keynote now available

Tony recently spoke at the Gallup Education conference.  You can view his 20 minute TED-style keynote here.

Tony Featured in Campus Technology Magazine

Campus Technology Magazine sat down with Tony for an in-depth interview on 21st century skills and the future of higher education.

You can access the full interview here.

Campus Technology Magazine published an in-depth interview with Tony on the future of higher education

You can access it here.

Tony Featured by Tom Friedman in the New York Times

In his column in this Sunday’s New York Times, Tom Friedman featured an extended interview with Tony, focusing on the American employment landscape and how out education system must change to create a nation of innovators.

You can read the full Friedman column here.

Tom Friedman features an extended interview with Tony in his recent Sunday New York Times Column

You can read the full Friedman column here.

2 Minute Video Portrait of Tony As A “Visionary”

While Tony was in Panama keynoting the Inter-American Development Bank’s event on Youth & Social Innovation, Uruguayan filmmaker Adriana Loeff was commissioned to make a short video portrait of Tony as a part of the IDB series on “Visionaries.” You can view it here.