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Bo Adams

The Myth Of The Innovation Lab - 0 views

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innovation lab

shared by Bo Adams on 17 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • "innovation theater."
  • happens when teams in innovation labs use lean startup tools without really understanding how they work. They take the canvases, sticky notes, whiteboards and bean bags, and they start thinking that they are all set for doing innovation. The teams then focus their attention on making cool products, without thinking about the business models that underlie those products.
  • problem of success
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  • causes the most frustration among people who work inside innovation labs. These are hard working diligent people who understand how to apply lean startup methods and tools the right way. They often succeed in creating great products with good business models. However, when they are ready to take these products to scale they face resistance from their parent company.
  • The lesson learned is to not let the creation of an innovation lab lull you to sleep. You are not in a safe space. The parent company does not love you as much as you think it does. There is still a lot of work to do to get buy-in and support from leaders and key stakeholders.
  • idea that the leaders who funded the lab understand its purpose and support innovation
  • opening of the innovation lab itself often represents innovation theater - played out at the leadership level within the company
  • first symptom of this is the lack of a clear innovation strategy
  • Bo Adams on 17 Apr 18
     
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Meghan Cureton

3 Ways to Unlock the Wisdom of Colleagues | Edutopia - 0 views

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Learning learningwalks InstructionalRounds collaboration

shared by Meghan Cureton on 04 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • when teachers have regular, structured opportunities to learn together, good ideas are more likely to travel from one classroom to the next.
  • Collaboration takes time and planning. If classroom observation becomes part of a school’s strategy, administrators have to make time during the regular school day for shared professional learning among the staff. School leaders should also have to have clear objectives for the program of observation, and protocols to keep discussion on track and to ensure that the time isn’t wasted.
  • A spirit of continuous learning permeates the school, which encourages all teachers
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  • “Sometimes the best things going on are happening in your own building, and you might miss them because you’re doing your own thing,”
  • teachers meet regularly outside of class time to examine their students’ coursework as a team.
  • “The reason we look at student work is to help teachers become better teachers,”

  • “are better able to guide and facilitate a deeper level of student learning.”

  • community of learners who use planned, peer-to-peer feedback to help raise student outcomes throughout the school.
  • Each three-hour teacher lab focuses on a specific instructional topic that teachers choose to explore together, such as student engagement strategies.

  • To encourage more teacher collaboration in your school, you’ll want to consider:

    • Time: Where will you find time within the regular school day for teachers to step outside their own classrooms and learn together?
    • Structure: How might a protocol or specific observation prompt help to focus the learning experience? Who will play a lead role in facilitating the teacher experience and encouraging reflection? How will you capture takeaways? The National School Reform Faculty publishes a number of protocols for professional learning, such as this one for looking at student work.
    • Follow-up: How are teachers applying what they learn together? How do students benefit as a result of teacher collaboration?
Meghan Cureton

Grades Suffer When Class Time Doesn't Match Students' Biological Clocks - Inside School... - 1 views

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Learning schedule neuroscience sleep brain

shared by Meghan Cureton on 04 Apr 18 - No Cached
  • "An important piece of the story is that it's not just about making the life of a teenager easier by saying maybe we can make classes later," said Benjamin Smarr, a postdoctoral psychologist at the University of California at Berkeley who studies circadian rhythm disruptions and learning.
  • As it turned out, taking a class schedule mismatched to your biological clock took a toll on students' grades, as the chart below shows. 
  • Early-rising "larks" had a grade advantage in morning classes, they found. Night owls performed better in afternoon and early evening classes, but the researchers also found these students tended to struggle more than those with earlier circadian rhythms in general. The researchers believe this was because their schedules were the farthest off "normal" class schedules, and the actual class times often varied significantly from day to day, making it difficult for these students to develop any consistency.
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  • Most high schools don't really have the option to make multiple sessions of the same class at different times, but Smarr said for those who use software that can track the timing of students' activity, it may be worth getting a sense of when different groups of students are likely to be most alert when scheduling core classes. Other forms of technology may also help, he said, allowing students to access classes or rewatch lectures at different times of the day.
Bo Adams

Better Brainstorming - 0 views

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questioning Questions inquiry based learning DesignThinking brainstorming

shared by Bo Adams on 27 Mar 18 - No Cached
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Nicole Martin

10 Principles for Building a High-Quality System Of Assessments - Deeper Lear... - 2 views

deeperlearning4all.org/igh-quality-system-assessments

assesment

shared by Nicole Martin on 26 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • No single assessment or piece of student work can provide the robust information needed to inform teaching, learning, and supports,
Nicole Martin

Generative Art and Computational Creativity Course - 0 views

www.creativitypost.com/...omputational_creativity_course

shared by Nicole Martin on 25 Mar 18 - No Cached
  • Nicole Martin on 25 Mar 18
     
    Fodder for interdisciplinary course ideas. This is fascinating and could be a link to scad.
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