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far too many districts are leading with technology for technology’s sake and not considering what problem they are trying to solve with technology or what goal they are trying to achieve.

How does innovation occur?  Through an inefficient process of ideation, exploration, and experimentation.

we create new value by combining seemingly unrelated things or ideas in new ways, transferring something from one environment to another, or finding new insights in patterns or aberrations. Innovative ideas rarely emerge from an “aha!” moment. Instead, they usually arise from thinking differently than we normally think and from learning.

we are highly efficient, fast, reflexive thinkers who seek to confirm what we already know.

Exchange: swapping traditional ways of doing things with ICT Enrich: engaging learners with a richer mix of media Enhance: encouraging deeper learning through the use of ICT Extend: encouraging students to take their learning further Empower: giving students control over their own learning

With the explosion of online learning, a disruptive innovation, there has been significant attention paid to the likely unbundling of higher education (see Michael Staton’s AEI piece and this University Ventures Fund piece, for example). We’ve written about unbundling ourselves. In every industry, the early successful products and services often have an interdependent architecture—meaning that they tend to be proprietary and bundled. The reason for this is that when a technology is immature, in order to make the products reliable or powerful enough so that they will gain traction, an entity has to wrap its hands around the whole system architecture so that it can wring out every ounce of performance.