Profound societal changes in the economic, technological, social, and educational fronts pose challenges for educators in their ability to equip young students with the skills and capabilities needed to navigate a digitally connected and complex world.  Tomorrow’s Innovators: Essential Skills For A Changing World focuses on approaches and methods to help teachers infuse their basic subject matter lessons with creativity, innovation, and adaptability.  On a broader scale, we provide elementary and middle school educators with insights into current educational issues and suggestions for converting new ideas into practical classroom applications.     Teachers need to transform the classroom or school into a contemporary learning environment by paying attention to consistent classroom routines, using assessment data for improvement, and having a coherent organizational structure. The old foundations of reading, writing, and mathematics and the new basics of science, technology, and the arts will be at the core of schooling.   More than ever, thinking about curriculum and instruction has to occur as the traditional boundaries between politics, technology, culture, education, and ecology disappear.  

"The slightly prophetic tone of the title aptly reflects the contents of Adams and Hamm’s detailed and stimulating exploration of the challenges and rewards facing teachers in the immediate and more distant future. This is a book with a clear philosophical and ideological agenda, which argues unapologetically that a radical change needs to take place in pedagogical practice nationwide in order to prevent the education sector stagnating and falling out of step with the demands of the post-secondary world. But the authors are not prophets of doom: on the contrary, theirs is a message of hope, and the book digresses in some detail on the various strategies for incorporating new and emerging technologies into the classroom that the authors have identified as most effective and efficient. The book is therefore both a philosophical and a practical manual for teachers and educational theorists, and its lively, engaging tone encourages readers to appreciate the benefits derived from these new modes of learning, rather than the detriments." - Teachers College Record

"Adams (McGill Univ., Canada) and Hamm (San Francisco State Univ.) identify dealing with "the convergence of thinking and technological tools" as fundamental to successful education in this book's introductory chapter. This thesis is partially developed for the intended readers, presumably elementary school teachers and teachers-in-preparation, in two of the remaining six chapters: "Thinking and Learning in a Technologically Intensive World" and "Communication Technologies." Chapters include insightful lesson plans and activities, as well as a list of references. Useful ideas for teaching and learning are presented throughout. Summing Up: Recommended." - CHOICE