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Rhondda Powling

The Learning Innovation Cycle How Disruption Creates Lasting Change - 2 views

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    "In education, most of the talk around disruptive innovation revolves around education technology, owing to the potential scale of these technologies, and desperation of education to revise itself. But innovation doesn't necessarily have to be a matter of economics, as Christensen originally thought of the term, nor of technology, which is the most tempting angle. It can, but there are other disruptors that can lead to innovation that have little to do with either. What might be more interesting than the disruptors, then, might be the process itself. "
Nigel Coutts

Creating a Generation of Innovators - 0 views

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    Innovation is very much on the agenda in Australian and globally. The OECD publishes lists of nations most likely to succeed through innovation and nations seek to encourage increased innovation to maintain their competitive edge. The result of this in Australia is the recent launch of a new 'Innovation Australia' policy with wide reaching measures to encourage and foster a culture of innovation.
Rhondda Powling

Culture of Creativity or Constraints? - Curiosity, Exploration, Wonder - 4 views

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    "There are a few possibilities discussed here that help to create that culture of free creativity and innovation. Educators need to build this culture at a young age and when challenges arise students will have what it takes to innovate. How will we bring about opportunities for students to explore their creativity and innovate?"
Rhondda Powling

Education Eye - Mapping Innovations - 6 views

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    EducationEye allows the user to discover, explore and share new ideas. It maps hundreds of top educational websites, blogs, forums and case studies to provide up to date information about innovative ideas being explored in the education community. The information is then present in a visual format that is itself interactive. Type in your search term and let it find the relevant articles, websites or links. This is a innovative tool from Futurelab and well worth a visit
Tony Searl

Gartner Says By 2015, More Than 50 Percent of Organizations That Manage Innovation Proc... - 3 views

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    The goals of gamification are to achieve higher levels of engagement, change behaviors and stimulate innovation. The opportunities for businesses are great - from having more engaged customers, to crowdsourcing innovation or improving employee performance. Gartner identified four principal means of driving engagement using gamification:
Roland Gesthuizen

N O V A | Global Schools Innovation Network - 1 views

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    "NOVA takes you simply, quickly and directly to resources that will inform your own strategic thinking on innovation in schools. for articles in the current issue addressing: assessment; case studies; curriculum; leadership; pedagogy; research; and thought leaders. NOVA focuses on leadership, curriculum, assessment, pedagogy and research, as well as bringing you thought leaders and case studies that address innovation." "
Chris Betcher

Can Innovative Thinking Be Learned? - Forbes - 3 views

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    "The Innovator's DNA" is a motivational read - from chapter to chapter, the authors dish out exercises designed to help readers strengthen each of the five skills necessary for innovation.
Chris Betcher

Making room for innovation | Dangerously Irrelevant - 0 views

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    Innovation isn't about structuring a process to lead to an outcome so much as it's about creating space -- both elbow room, the space to roam free of bureaucratic rules and red tape, and head room, the freedom to see differently, think wildly, and aim higher.
Rhondda Powling

8 things every teacher can do to create an innovative classroom | eSchool News | eSchoo... - 1 views

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    "Eight basic principles for the "Innovative Classroom," around which one teacher designed a middle school course called Physical Computing. Some of the projects and tools are specific to that course, but the fundamental ideas could be applied to almost any course at any level"
Tony Searl

P2P Foundation » Blog Archive » How Different Is Your Bow-tie? - 1 views

  • As these systems evolve, the number of inputs and outputs generally increases. Each time a new node is added to the network, the number of potential connections required scales exponentially
  • Furthermore, because there is only one standard, there is no incentive for innovation, which means that the system cannot evolve.
  • Single standards are notoriously difficult to overcome or dislodge, even when they become ludicrously inefficient, as is the case with the Western “QWERTY” keyboard layout.
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  • the system has great difficulty overcoming its own internal structure and adapting to the change.
  • Complex systems of this type, that are too loosely structurally coupled, maximize their openness to innovation but do so entirely at the cost of being able to exploit those innovations when they are useful
  • a panarchy
  • The bow-tie structure manages these tensions by occupying an “edge of chaos” zone in between too much rigidity and too much flexibility, between too little diversity, and too much.
  • There is a need to capitalize on potential efficiencies in one’s current environment while at the same time remaining flexible enough to adapt if the environment changes
  • confusing the necessary cluster of evolving core elements with a “standard
  • Future networks operate on multiple standards in the core — optimal levels of infrastructure arrived at by open innovation in the periphery that makes its way into the core as adoption and usage increase.
  • widely agreed upon cultural understandings and practices.
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    Single standards are notoriously difficult to overcome or dislodge, even when they become ludicrously inefficient,
anonymous

The Innovative Educator: 25 Random Things Innovative Educators Can Do To Enhance Teachi... - 0 views

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    25 random things innovative educators can do to enhance teaching and learning.
Nigel Coutts

A culture of innovation requires trust and resilience - The Learner's Way - 0 views

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    Two quotes by Albert Einstein point to the importance of creating a culture within our schools (and organisations) that encourages experimentation, innovation, tinkering and indeed failure. If we are serious about embracing change, exploring new approaches, maximising the possibilities of new technologies, applying lessons from new research and truly seek to prepare our students for a new work order, we must become organisations that encourage learning from failure
Tony Searl

» Top 100 Articles of 2011 C4LPT - 3 views

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    i wonder if anyone actually reads anymore? plenty of evidence in these 100 articles why innovation based on CoPs, edupreneurs, outputs, valuing behaviour change we want to see and student centred GBL pull learning not course inputs, packaged content, event based TPL, 2005 ala 2nd life, push teaching and traditional boring LMS use will see some projects fly and others crash and burn. Also reinforces why fundamentally old thinking will fail if you just put lipstick on the e-pig and call it innovative.
anonymous

Cover Story: Discover Innovations at DOK, Holland's 'Library Concept Center' - 0 views

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    The mission of DOK is to become and remain the most advanced library in the world. Using creativity, technical innovation, and advancing scientific understanding, DOK endeavors to be an indispensable source of inspiration
Debra Hicks

Phorecast | Innovation + Big Ideas - 0 views

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    Phorecast podcasts of the best innovators, designers, consultants and relevant thinkers with the exclusive goal of bringing your business model into the future.
Peter Ruwoldt

Around the Corner-MGuhlin.org: Embracing Innovation - FOSS in Schools @neisd - 0 views

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    Students are using a dual-boot machine with UbuntuLinux and Windows XP. I love this account of how he got the change going at a Technology magnet school...note the focus is on bringing innovative experiences to students rather than making it easier for District Technology Department staff to do their job, which unfortunately, is what keeps GNU/Linux out of many school districts: The Rudd laptop scheme damaged the use of linux in schools in Aus. Maybe this will help.
Chris Betcher

MediaShift . Teaching Innovation Is About More Than iPads in the Classroom | PBS - 2 views

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    Learning environments of the future are in incubation. And therein lies the challenge: Learning environments that don't exist can't be analyzed. Moving into the unknown requires a pioneering spirit. Helen Keller reminds us that is the truth of not only our age, but of all ages: "Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is either a daring adventure, or nothing."
Rhondda Powling

2011 ITL Research Findings and Implications - 0 views

  • This report provides the findings from the 2011 analysis across 7 participating countries.
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    This report provides the findings from the 2011 analysis across 7 participating countries. From Innovative Teaching and Learning research site (sponsored by Microsoft Partners in Learning)
Rhondda Powling

15 Ways Art Can Increase Innovation in Your Science Class - 1 views

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