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Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12)

Gabriel Lucas, Castilleja School (Palo Alto, CA)Kelsey Vroomunn, Urban School (San Francisco, CA)

Castilleja: All-girls, Day, grades 6-12Urban: Co-ed, Day, grades 9-12

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Innovation is everywhere

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Meet your neighbor

What’s your favorite EdTech innovation?

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Overheard at OESIS

• The process matters, not the product (Ray Ravaglia, Stanford University)

• Iterate / explore / try (Patricia and Aileen, Sage Hill School)

• Instructional designers need educators (Howard Lurie, CS4ED)

• Need to step out of our comfort zone (Jeff Bradley, OESIS)

• Spin-off and insulate innovation pilots (Amanda Parashar, Kohelet High)

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First half: Gabe

• Learning from failure: one educator’s EdTech innovation story

• A few “externally-driven” initiatives

• A few “educator-driven” initiatives (with six recommendations)

• Open discussion

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Learning from failure: one educator’s EdTech innovation story

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Gabe at SF State

• Taught two classes meeting 50 min/period, 3 periods/week

• No wife, no kids, no mortgage, no money

• Plenty of space and computers

• No collaboration requirements

• No management oversight

• Masters thesis research

• Plenty of free time

• No formal review

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Gabe at SF State

• Taught two classes meeting 50 min/period, 3 periods/week

• No wife, no kids, no mortgage, no money

• Plenty of space and computers

• No collaboration requirements

• No management oversight

• Masters thesis research

• Plenty of free time

• No formal review

Dislike sales

No marketing

UI not intuitive

Built only for me

Too many features

Charged $$ upfront

Didn’t generate user base

More interested in teaching

Lacked a development partner

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Educator’s dilemma

As the years go by

My involvement in

K-12 education

Time to innovate and be entrepreneurial

Thirst fo

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ols

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A few externally-driven initiatives

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Imagine K12: Seed funding for EdTech start ups

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Imagine K12 companies

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Imagine K12 companies

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EdSurge

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EdSurge

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EdSurge

build (or contribute to design process)

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NewSchools Venture Fund: Education Investment

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Silicon Valley Education Foundation

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TeacherSquare: Building EdTech communities

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“Fabrication EdTech” innovation

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4.0 Schools

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A few “educator-driven” initiatives(with six words of wisdom from Gabe)

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Goal: Bring educators and “external” EdTech enthusiasts together

Inspiration: Could schools play a more active role in the EdTech development cycle?

1. Start the dialogue

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Who came

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How might we questions

1a.   …make  EdTech  more  student-­‐driven?  1b.   …enable  educators  to  design  their  own  EdTech  solutions?    

2a.   …improve  access  to  EdTech  tools?  2b.   …capture  data  from  EdTech  tools  to  make  more  informed  decisions?

3a.   …support  schools'  use  of  EdTech  in  ways  that  are  transformative?  3b.   …improve  the  selection  process  of  emerging  EdTech  tools?

4a.   …give  students  and  teachers  more  opportunities  to  participate  in  the  EdTech  innovation  cycle?4b.   …re-­‐imagine  EdTech  as  a  fabrication-­‐oriented  opportunity  (much  like  the  maker  movement)?

5a.   …re-­‐imagine  the  school  day,  to  support  innovation,  as  well  as  online  and  blended  learning?5b.   …enable  EdTech  entrepreneurs  to  observe  &  interact  with  students  and  teachers?

6a   …create  a  thriving  community  of  EdTech  enthusiasts  ?6b.   …improve  the  student  learning  experience  through  the  use  of  emerging  EdTech  tools?

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2. Support teacher-driven entrepreneurialism

Chicago teacher founded, Imagine K12 funded--while still working at a school

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3. Think big and seek grants!

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4. Students!

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Club Academia

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5. Tinker with building-block tools

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Overheard at OESIS

• The process matters, not the product (Ray Ravaglia, Stanford University)

• Iterate / explore / try (Patricia and Aileen, Sage Hill School)

• Instructional designers need educators (Howard Lurie, CS4ED)

• Need to step out of our comfort zone (Jeff Bradley, OESIS)

• Spin-off and insulate innovation pilots (Amanda Parashar, Kohelet High)

6. Take these ideas to heart

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Partnership for 21st Century Assessment

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Partnership for 21st Century Assessment

LMS

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Partnership for 21st Century Assessment

LMShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

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Opportunities and challenges

Differentiation

Rich PD experience

Walk the walk

Fundraising

Multi-constituency

Learn by doing

Solve actual problems

World --> School

Take ownership

Student engagement

Time

Space

Money

Expertise

Bandwidth

Paradigm shift

Seems daunting

Is this our mission?

Required content

Financial models

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“Thinking big” examples

• Google’s 80/20 rule

• Hacker-in-residence

• EdTech maker lab

• KickstarterEDU

• Flipped EdSurge events

• Innovation consortiums

• More Club Academias

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Open discussion

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ED TECH INNOVATION

KELSEY VROOMUNN

designing faculty challenges for

Director of Ed Tech, Urban School of SF@KelseyVroomunn kvroomunn@urbanschool.org

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ED TECH CHALLENGE?PDWhat is an

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ED TECH CHALLENGE?PD

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On Your Tables...

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On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card

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On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card• If you don’t like your challenge, move!

•Making, Blended Learning, Girls & STEM, Mobile Learning, PD

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On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card• If you don’t like your challenge, move!

•Making, Blended Learning, Girls & STEM, Mobile Learning, PD

Blended real world application: Compile resources in an open wiki, allowing group members to

contribute their own finds and to keep a record of activity.

Not a one day event! Give time for groups to consult resources before F2F discussions.

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On Your Tables...

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On Your Tables...STOP!! 3 Constraint Cards

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•Either flip them over one by one to add additional difficulty or...

•Instant gratification by considering all 3 constraints at once

On Your Tables...STOP!! 3 Constraint Cards

Sunday, February 9, 2014

•Either flip them over one by one to add additional difficulty or...

•Instant gratification by considering all 3 constraints at once

On Your Tables...STOP!! 3 Constraint Cards

Real world application: Think about and ask others what they perceive to be constraints at your campus. Great way to introduce the empathy piece of Design Thinking.

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How might we...

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How might we...

Real world application: Prototype the ideas that come out of your session!

Editable .PSD cards on my website chimeraeducation.weebly.com

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