From Grammar School to Rocket Science

摘要

Inspiring the next generation of innovators was the theme of the Aug. 8 keynote session of NIWeek. Pernille France, senior director of the LEGO Foundation, said stigma is attached to failure. But, she said, inventors have failed far more than they've succeeded, but they have learned from their failures. In the future, she added, teaching content will not be enough. "We need to teach [students] to learn process skills that will help them come up with surprising and innovative solutions to new problems," because 65％ of children today will grow up to have jobs that haven't been invented yet. She said that the new MINDSTORMS EV3 platform will "enable students to build, create, program, and fail-and then build, create, program, and succeed."