In kindergartens nowadays, children spend more time with math worksheets and phonics flashcards than blocks and finger paint. Kindergarten is now more like the rest of college. In Lifelong Kindergarten, learning professional Mitchel Resnick argues for exactly the opposite: the rest of school (even the rest of lifestyle) should be similar to kindergarten. To thrive in the current fast-changing world, folks of all ages must learn to believe and work creatively-and the best way to do that is definitely by about Lifelong Kindergarten: Cultivating Creativeness through Projects, Interest, Peers, and Play concentrating more on imagining, creating, playing, sharing, and reflecting, just as children do in traditional kindergartens.

Drawing on experiences from more than thirty years at MIT’s Mass media Lab, Resnick talks about new technologies and approaches for engaging teenagers in creative learning encounters. He tells tales of how kids are encoding their own games, stories, and inventions (for example, a diary security system, created by a twelve-year-old female), and collaborating through remixing, crowdsourcing, and large-scale group tasks. By providing young people with possibilities to work on projects, predicated on their passions, in cooperation with peers, inside a playful soul, we are able to help them prepare for a world where creative considering is more essential than ever before.