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What do you think about Catalan issue? - 35 views

I found in my college works (V.Rupainiene, 2003) some definition of innovation: educational innovation is a new idea, practice and process, something what is understood as newly implemented at the ...

Alan McCluskey

Innovation Exchange - 0 views

  • The Innovation Exchange is a programme where innovators from the third sector, public servants and social investors can collaborate to tackle specific social problems together.
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    The Innovation Exchange is a programme of the UK Innovation Unit where innovators from the third sector, public servants and social investors can collaborate to tackle specific social problems together.
Alan McCluskey

Overview / Finland's future strategy - 1 views

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    Details of the new Finnish Innovation Strategy which is not just about education but mainly about entrepreneurship and industry.
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    In the page about implementation of the strategy it pleads for a holistic apporach to policy-making about innovation: "The key recommendations of the national innovation strategy will apply to the co-ordination of a broad-based innovation policy at the government level, and especially the co-ordination of the implementation of sector-specific development and innovation programmes. The objective of intensified co-ordination is to increase synergies between policy sectors in the promotion of innovations and to accelerate innovation activities especially in the public sector. The strategy will also outline how to promote the preconditions of Finnish enterprises and entrepreneurs in a comprehensive way."
Alan McCluskey

Science, Industry and Business: the innovations-report - 0 views

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    The forum for science, industry and economy that promotes innovation dynamics, networking of innovation and performance potentials.

    With more than 6,700 international content partners and over 93,000 publications about the latest developments and research results, interesting studies and statistics as well as innovative processes, products and services of future-oriented companies and renowned scientific institutions, innovation report is counted amongst important initiators of international innovation events.
Alan McCluskey

Futurelab - Innovation in education - 0 views

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    transforming the way people learn through innovative technology and practice
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    The Futurlab site contains sections about projects: - the innovate award scheme; - the Models of Innovation project investigating conditions and strategies to support innovation in the design and development of digital learning resources; - teachers as innovators in teaching and learning with digital resources; - Why don't you? .. a porject about providing tested new tools and approaches that could be used to try something in a new way ... and available resources (reports; handbooks; articles,...)
Alan McCluskey

Encouraging Innovation in Our Schools | Edutopia - 0 views

  • Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?
  • Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?
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    The author says: "Once again, the policy makers have it wrong. How can you gather policymakers to discuss innovation in education without teachers and their professional associations?"
Alan McCluskey

Consistency and coherence key to successful innovation policy, says Potocnik - 0 views

  • '[Innovation policy] requires policy-makers and politicians to innovate in the way they conduct and implement policy,' commented Mr Potocnik.
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    A speech by Commissioner Potocnik about innovation policy in Europe.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation Predictions 2008 - 0 views

  • The demand for innovation is soaring in the business community and is just beginning to gain traction in the political sphere.
  • And expect the whole realm of social networking to change in 2008. Just when you "got it" and thought it was all about open, personal, and casual online relationships, social media will morph into another ecosystem—one with lots of gates.
  • Companies are demanding new tools and methods to execute that change within their existing organizations, as well as for the kind of design thinking that transforms cultures.
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  • Companies are demanding that their managers be more creative and less obsessed with cost and efficiency.
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    A not very inspiring look at the near future from Business Week. It does confirm the ever-growing interest in innovation in the US that is also being felt in Europe.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation and Excellence - Middle Year School - 0 views

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      The use of clusters of schools to encourage innovation is an interesting idea.
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    The Schools for Innovation and Excellence initiative commenced in 2003 and supports primary and secondary schools to work closely together in clusters over three years to deliver innovation and excellence in Victorian education. Clusters receive funding to develop strategically effective education programs to advance student learning. From 2005, every Victorian government school will be in a cluster, with a total of 247 clusters in operation.
Alan McCluskey

The Innovation Unit - Home - 0 views

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    The UK Innovation Unit promotes innovation to improve education and children's services. It acts as a catalyst for change and draws on expertise from both the public and private sectors, combining practitioner expertise with the ambition of policy makers.
Alan McCluskey

Innovative Minds Don't Think Alike - New York Times - 0 views

  • As our knowledge and expertise increase, our creativity and ability to innovate tend to taper off
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      Some of the ideas expressed here (in Chip's book) might be useful in thinking about how policy-hsapers can have more impact on policies adopted by policy-makers.
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      Only available second hand on Amazion.co.uk
  • it becomes nearly impossible to look beyond what you know and think outside the box you’ve built around yourself.
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  • People who design products are experts cursed by their knowledge, and they can’t imagine what it’s like to be as ignorant as the rest of us.
  • once you’ve become an expert in a particular subject, it’s hard to imagine not knowing what you do
  • Made to Stick: Why Some Ideas Survive and Others Die.
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    About how expertise can hinder innovation and creativity because it tends to fence in ideas and limit possibilities, especially within specific areas of expertise. So thought has to be given to stepping outside existing frameworks and how new ideas are communicated to others.
Alan McCluskey

Study: 'Innovation' schools help teens - Examiner.com - 0 views

  • Students achieve better test scores and attendance rates at the six smaller Baltimore City high schools where teachers have greater control over lessons and principals have more freedom when hiring staff, a new study shows.
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      Unfortunately the article says very litttle about what makes these schools "innovative", apart from the autonomy they are granted to tailor programmes, their "best practices" and the addiitonal money made available.
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    The "innovation" high schools provide more support for students and more positive learning environments than the city's other high schools
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Australian School Innovation in Science, Technology & Mathematics - 0 views

  • Over 350 innovative projects have been funded through this initiative, which focuses on improving teaching and learning in schools in the areas of science, technology and mathematics.
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    Over 350 innovative projects in Australia have been funded through the ASISTM initiative
Alan McCluskey

School Innovation - 0 views

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    An EUN dossier about innovation in schools including:
    Spotlight on Calibrate schools
    Interactive Whiteboards introduced in a Belgian Catholic Primary School
    Scenario building in education
    New eTwinning Handbook 2007
    Types of e-portfolios
    e-Portfolio Scenarios

Alan McCluskey

Research on Innovation - 0 views

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    A series of papers about innovation, parrticularly patents but also on open source process and intellectual property.
Alan McCluskey

The innovation mindset. An example of negotiating meaning in a group. - 0 views

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    When trying to understand what the word innovation is meant to mean, it is not so much the dictionary definition that interests us but rather the meanings that people give the word when they use it...
Alan McCluskey

The stress of innovation - 0 views

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    About the flashy new system for shoppers at the Coop in Switzerland supposedly to help buying be easier. The surprise side-effects of adopting certain innovations.
Alan McCluskey

Innovation and ICT enabling changes in education - 0 views

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    The following text is based on the answers of thirty-three experts from sixteen European countries to a series of questions about possible changes in education as a response to one of eight challenges identified by the European Commission in its working p
Alan McCluskey

Blog of Collective Intelligence - 0 views

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    Collective intelligence is the capacity of human communities to evolve towards higher order complexity and harmony, through such innovation mechanisms as differentiation and integration, competition and collaboration.
Alan McCluskey

Innovating e-Learning online conference 2007 : JISC - 0 views

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    The themes of the 2007 JISC online conference were "institutional transformation" and "supporting lifelong learning". Two interesting ebook about these subjects have been published.
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