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Justin Medved

Clearing the Confusion between Technology Rich and Innovative Poor: Six Questions - 3 views

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shared by Justin Medved on 04 Feb 15 - No Cached
  • Justin Medved on 04 Feb 15
     
    "Test your own level of innovation.  If you answer no to all Six Questions when evaluating the design of assignments and student work, than chances are that technology is not really being applied in the most innovative ways. The questions we ask to evaluate implementation and define innovation are critical." Did the assignment build capacity for critical thinking on the web? Did the assignment develop new lines of inquiry? Are there opportunities for students to make their thinking visible? Are there opportunities to broaden the perspective of the conversation with authentic audiences from around the world? Is there an opportunity for students to create a contribution (purposeful work)? Does the assignment demo "best in the world" examples of content and skill?
vcivan

Making Innovation Routine | Garth Nichols - 1 views

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shared by vcivan on 17 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • The idea is to understand the challenges facing teachers and students today, and to design solutions and share them
  • making innovation routine by providing engaging questions both in class and out, and providing a space, resources and inspiration to pursue and explore answers to these questions.
    • vcivan
      vcivan on 17 Oct 15
       
      What strategies and/or tools have you used to develop innovative routines to your everyday classroom?
  • vcivan on 17 Oct 15
     
    Innovative ideas around routines
Derek Doucet

The 13 most innovative schools in the world - Tech Insider - 2 views

www.techinsider.io/ve-schools-in-the-world-2015-9

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shared by Derek Doucet on 17 Oct 15 - No Cached
  • Innovation in education can look like lots of things, like incorporating new technology or teaching methods, going on field trips, rejecting social norms, partnering with the local community.
  • Keep scrolling to see what the future of education can, and probably should, look like.
  • Or it can be a school that's blind to gender, like Egalia, in Stockholm, Sweden.
  • Derek Doucet on 17 Oct 15
     
    These are amazing...
  • anonymous on 19 Oct 15
     
    Great stuff! Wondering if any school in Ontario would be willing to become so distinct and innovative.
garth nichols

Opening City Hall's Wallets to Innovation - The New York Times - 0 views

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shared by garth nichols on 25 Sep 15 - No Cached
  • garth nichols on 25 Sep 15
     
    Innovation on a city-level can mean great things for teachers!
su11armstrong

Most Popular of 2015, No. five: These 6 questions determine if you're technology rich, ... - 1 views

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best practices technology innovation questions education edtech SAMR

shared by su11armstrong on 12 Jan 16 - No Cached
  • su11armstrong on 12 Jan 16
     
    "Think your school is innovative with tech? Answer these 6 questions and prepare to reassess" Clear thinking about moving forward in Ed Tech.
garth nichols

Discomfort, Growth, and Innovation | Edutopia - 0 views

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innovation growth education-change

shared by garth nichols on 28 Oct 17 - No Cached
  • We’ve all heard the calls for innovation ringing through the education field. This age of exponential change leaves us no choice—we must change or our students will fall behind.
  • about 16 percent of any group actively pursue change
  • So how do we encourage the rest of our colleagues toward this cycle of innovation? It comes down to one simple thing: School leaders and coaches must foster a culture that celebrates the discomfort inevitably resulting from change. And that requires three key strategies.
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  • This is not a quick fix. It requires an investment of time, energy, and patience that may not be realized for years. But by creating a culture in which our teachers celebrate discomfort, we also enable them to encourage their students in the same way.
Derek Doucet

30 Education Innovators Worth Following On Twitter - Edudemic - 0 views

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shared by Derek Doucet on 10 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • 30 Education Innovators Worth Following On Twitter
  • Derek Doucet on 10 Mar 14
     
    A quick hit for some great people to follow...
garth nichols

Helping Teachers and Schools Run Experiments - Vander Ark on Innovation - Education Week - 1 views

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shared by garth nichols on 28 Aug 15 - No Cached
  • garth nichols on 28 Aug 15
     
    Building a culture of innovation
garth nichols

The Secret Skill Behind Being An Innovator | LinkedIn - 0 views

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innovator cohort21 analogy

shared by garth nichols on 29 Mar 14 - No Cached
  • Let’s look more closely at what is happening, conceptually, when we make an analogy. “The essential requirement for analogical thinking,” Holyoak and Thagard write, “is the ability to look at specific situations and [] pull out abstract patterns that may also be found in superficially different situations.” That’s important, so I’ll say it again in a slightly different way: A useful analogy reveals the deep commonalities beneath superficial differences.
  • What does this allow us to do? The scientists Kevin Dunbar studied used analogies, first, to formulate hypotheses that they could then test. Their thought process went something like this: If we know that X does Y when Z, is it possible that A does Y when Z, too? Let’s find out. That’s often how innovations get their start, in the lab and elsewhere: by taking a familiar starting point and using it as a launch pad to explore new territory.
  • The appearance in the transcript of words indicating uncertainty, such as “maybe,” “I don’t know,” and “I don’t understand,” was often followed by an attempt to draw an analogy—to compare the ambiguous situation to a situation with which the scientists were familiar.
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  • At such moments, the scientists were employing analogies as different sort of bridge—a conceptual catwalk that provides just enough space to move forward and keep searching for solutions. As Schunn writes: “Scientists and engineers do not always seek to completely eliminate uncertainty (and indeed, sometimes it is not possible to do so) but often drive problem solving with the aim of converting it into approximate ranges sufficient to continue problem solving.”
  • To aid in finding just the right analogy, it helps to have a deep pool of potential targets. The Boston Strategy Group, a consulting firm, has created an online gallery of sources of analogical inspiration for its consultants and their clients to use. We can do this, too—bookmarking or pinning websites that inspire connections, keeping a folder of ripped-out articles or pictures from newspapers and magazines. A class or a workplace team can create a shared repository of analogical targets.
  • The best use of an analogy, as we’ve seen, is as as a bridge—and once we’ve crossed over the bridge, we can leave it behind.
  • garth nichols on 29 Mar 14
     
    Great article for why analogies are important
garth nichols

An innovative pilot project in Alberta asks …"Do credit hours equal learning?... - 1 views

www.cea-ace.ca/...Cdo-credit-hours-equal-learnin

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shared by garth nichols on 28 Feb 13 - No Cached
  • Many years ago we might have been able to argue that schools were organized in ways that fit with conventional knowledge about how young people learn. Our knowledge about learning has grown immensely since the turn of the twentieth century and yet the school day, especially in high schools, looks very much the same as it did 100 years ago.
  • Outcomes of the project will likely be available in 2013, but regular updates will be posted on the project website where you can also find a copy of the literature review written to stimulate thinking about innovative practices for high school redesign including, Increasing learning opportunities for students; Enhancing engagement of students in their learning; Addressing diverse learning needs of students; Enhancing relationships in the school community; and, Enhancing teacher collaboration.
  • garth nichols on 28 Feb 13
     
    Do credits = hours?
mrdanbailey61

Framework for 21st Century Learning - P21 - 4 views

www.p21.org/...p21-framework

21stcenturyskills 21stcenturylearning

shared by mrdanbailey61 on 20 Nov 16 - No Cached
  • “21st century student outcomes”
  • are the skills, knowledge and expertise students should master to succeed in work and life in the 21st century.
  • Disciplines include: English, reading or language artsWorld languagesArtsMathematicsEconomicsScienceGeographyHistoryGovernment and Civics
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  • In addition to these subjects,
  • promoting understanding of academic content at much higher levels by weaving 21st century interdisciplinary themes into curriculum:
  • To be effective in the 21st century, citizens and workers must be able to create, evaluate, and effectively utilize information, media, and technology.
  • Learning and innovation skills increasingly are being recognized as the skills that separate students who are prepared for increasingly complex life and work environments in the 21st century, and those who are not.
  • A focus on creativity, critical thinking, communication and collaboration is essential to prepare students for the future.
  • Global awareness Financial, economic, business and entrepreneurial literacy Civic literacy Health literacy Environmental literacy 
  • Today's students need to develop thinking skills, content knowledge, and social and emotional competencies to navigate complex life and work environments. P21's essential Life and Career Skills include:: Flexibility & Adaptability Initiative & Self Direction Social & Cross-Cultural Skills Productivity & Accountability
  • Leadership & Responsibility
  • mrdanbailey61 on 20 Nov 16
     
    This page gives an overview of a framework for 21st century skills and learning. I like how it values all of the academic disciplines and gives links to different sites that focus on broader interdisciplinary themes, innovation skills, information, media, and technology skills, and life and career skills.
mardimichels

The Elephant in the Room | Network.Ed - 0 views

www.josepicardo.com/...the-elephant-in-the-room

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shared by mardimichels on 09 Jan 14 - No Cached
  • Even when the most innovative teachers progress from teacher-centred classroom dynamics to inquiry or project based learning, rarely is technology considered to supply the scaffold for a more effective collaborative and socio-constructivist approach to the acquisition of knowledge.
  • We need to realise that these technologies are only absent from schools because we are deliberately keeping them out. We have created an alternative reality in which technology doesn’t exist. We are, in effect, striving to perpetuate a status quo that is already dead and buried in the real world.
  • mardimichels on 09 Jan 14
     
    Interesting (older) article about the use of technology to support innovative teaching methods.
Bob Loiselle

If You Want Innovation, You Have to Invest in People - Mehran Mehregany - Harvard Busin... - 1 views

blogs.hbr.org/...nt-innovation-invest-in-people

shared by Bob Loiselle on 21 Oct 13 - No Cached
    • Bob Loiselle
      Bob Loiselle on 21 Oct 13
       
      "knowledge leak" - great phrasing.  Easy to condescendingly look at others, but as I struggle to incorporate and use emerging technology, I have to realize that I too am guilty of not being current in my field, in the area of technology.  A humbling realization!
  • employee education and training can be hard to sustain
  • human tendency that to overestimate our depth of knowledge and the strength of our abilities.
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  • Sheer IQ is not sufficient for innovation, or even as important as current knowledge.
  • Justin Medved on 21 Oct 13
     
    "Every discipline is experiencing accelerated development, and the rapid knowledge obsolescence that goes with it. Cushing Anderson of IDC puts it well:  "Knowledge leak is the degradation of skills over time, and it … can kill organizational performance in as little as a couple of years." While it might have seemed reasonable in an era of slower change to put the onus on the individual to maintain his or her currency, firms today must make it their business to counter this leakage."
garth nichols

Clearing the Confusion between Technology Rich and Innovative Poor: Six Questions - 1 views

novemberlearning.com/...-innovative-poor-six-questions

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shared by garth nichols on 27 Jan 15 - No Cached
  • Transformational Six Did the assignment build capacity for critical thinking on the web? Did the assignment develop new lines of inquiry? Are there opportunities for students to make their thinking visible? Are there opportunities to broaden the perspective of the conversation with authentic audiences from around the world? Is there an opportunity for students to create a contribution (purposeful work)? Does the assignment demo “best in the world” examples of content and skill?
  • Carolyn Bilton on 27 Jan 15
     
    Are we really using technology to make our assignments/tasks/activities/lessons INNOVATIVE?
  • garth nichols on 28 Jan 15
     
    Great questions to ask ourselves and our colleagues as we move deeper into integrating tech into our everyday practice
lesmcbeth

Google Ventures: Your Design Team Needs A War Room. Here's How To Set One Up | Co.Desig... - 3 views

www.fastcodesign.com/...r-room-heres-how-to-set-one-up

DesignThinking Innovation collaboration

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  • lesmcbeth on 08 Oct 15
     
    A great article on what a room needs in order to improve opportunities for collaboration and innovation. How can you apply these lessons to the physical design of your classroom?
  • garth nichols on 08 Oct 15
     
    THis is what our classrooms should be, but we need to change the pedagogy too!
lesmcbeth

Be Inspired, Be an Innovator! | Classroom Resources | PBS LearningMedia - 1 views

www.pbslearningmedia.org/...be-inspired-be-an-innovator

innovator classroom DesignThinking

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  • lesmcbeth on 28 Mar 16
     
    PBS - Resources and lesson plans for using Design Thinking in the classroom.
  • Derek Doucet on 28 Mar 16
     
    This looks great! Thanks for the share Les!
Marcie Lewis

Designing Spaces for Creativity « Creativity & Innovation - 0 views

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shared by Marcie Lewis on 21 Oct 12 - No Cached
  • paces that are flexible, adaptable, and reconfigurable by the users: students and faculty Shared spaces that foster connections and conversations, both planned and unplanned. This means rethinking hallways, lobbies, and stairways, so that they aren’t just places to pass through, but places where collaboration and learning happens Spaces that inspire Spaces that make it easy to create things–with materials, sketches, whiteboards–wherever you are, without having to go to some other space to be creative
  • Marcie Lewis on 21 Oct 12
     
    Interesting post about a group of artists, furniture designers, architects, teachers that are looking at how to design spaces/classrooms for Creativity. 
Justin Medved

Sarah Bylsma » Blog Archive » Hard Times Calls for Educational Reform - 2 views

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criticalthinking

shared by Justin Medved on 13 Nov 13 - No Cached
  • Justin Medved on 13 Nov 13
     
    "Forbes Magazine recently released a survey by the American Management Association which found that knowledge in the three Rs (Reading, Writing and Arithmetic) is no longer sufficient for managers (Quast). It suggests "to ensure success in the workforce of the future, the three Rs need to be fused with the four Cs: Critical thinking and problem-solving skills, communication skills, collaboration skills and creativity and innovation skills" (Quast)."
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