Brooke Gladstone, On the Media (NPR), May 14, 2010. This page offers both an audio podcast and a transcript of the story. Gladstone reports on the Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP)'s spring 2010 show, and interviews Clay Shirkey, a teacher in the program.
Provided by Futurelab, Education Eye "brings you a wide range of exciting, relevant and useful innovations which are selected from the best of the web and updated daily." (from About page). At first blush, the site might seem tricky to navigate, but it is loaded with interesting ideas. Entries are color-coded (key is on the left), and you can also search for specific terms.
By Charles Ehin, September 2, 2009 on Knowledge Board. Author "explains why knowledge workers who want to expand the innovative capacities of their organisations need to pay much closer attention to human nature."
A blog by the Chronicle of Higher Education that started in May 2010, Innovations brings together several regular bloggers on the topic of innovations. Bloggers include Sandy Baum (Skidmore College), Michael McPherson (Spencer Foundation), Marybeth Gasman (Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania), Richard Kahlenberg (Century Foundation), and Richard Vedder (Center for College Affordability and Productivity/Ohio University).
By Betty Ray, on Edutopia, July 8 2010. This is a post by guest blogger Rob Jacobs, a recent participant in twitter group #edchat's topic, "What actions are needed to move the education reform movement from conversation to action." This guest post is on the same topic. Not only is this an interesting post, but #edchat sounds like a great twitter to follow.
Website of the MIT Media Lab. From their Mission and History page, "Now, in its third decade, the Media Lab continues to check traditional disciplines at the door. Future-obsessed product designers, nanotechnologists, data-visualization experts, industry researchers, and pioneers of computer interfaces work side by side to tirelessly invent-and reinvent-how humans experience, and can be aided by, technology."
By Steve Lohr, July 7, 2009 in Technology section, The New York Times. A contest set up by Netflix offered a $1 million prize for improving its movie recommendation system.
This Center began as a collaboration between Columbia University Law School and the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund. From "What We Do," "The Center works primarily through projects in different institutional settings, such as higher education, low-wage work, criminal justice, and housing. Each of the projects brings together creative and committed researchers, practitioners, and students to address problems involving structural inequality, and to do so through examining innovation."
This is the table of contents (in draft form) from the pre-publication version of Open Innovation, edited by Henry Chesbrough, Wim Vanhaverbeke, and Joel West, and published by Oxford University Press in 2006. Each chapter title links to the PDF of the draft version of the chapter. For more information on the book, including how to find the finished version, click on the home page link at the bottom.
Posted by Robert Jacobs in Education Innovation (blog) on September 2, 2010. The model for school change that Jacobs outlines looks very similar to the GSCC project, in that both look at what's working and how it might be replicated, focusing on the positive (solution) rather than the more negative (problem).
NOTE: The Harvard Business Review article that Jacobs refers to was published in 2005.
By Po Bronson and Ashley Merryman, published in Newsweek, July 10 2010. This article argues that American kids' creativity has been declining since 1990, in part because of the current state of education. In other parts of the world, there is a real emphasis on nurturing creativity in the schools.
This is the conference site for the Learning Forum London 2010 conference, held July 2010. This page provides links to the Program and Conference Tracks. As of Sept 2010, the 2010 conference proceedings were not yet available from this page.
Stephen Downes is considered one of the leading authorities on online learning. In addition to this blog, he publishes widely and authors an email that is available daily or weekly, OLDaily.
This journal, published since January 2004, looks to address research and innovation in teaching and learning. The journal is refereed. All issues and articles from this journal are available for free download.
Presentation by Josh Jarrett, Senior Program Officer, Education -- Postsecondary Success at the Gates Foundation; given September 10, 2010. Jarrett outlines his vision for education innovation, also highlighting some interesting resources.