"Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.“ Seth Godin, Poke the Box Innovative Schools, Innovative Students Jonathan E. Martin of School, St. Gregory College Preparatory School www.21k12blog.net
"Please stop waiting for a map. We reward those who draw maps, not those who follow them.“
Seth Godin,Poke the Box
Innovative Schools, Innovative StudentsJonathan E. Martin
Head of School, St. Gregory College Preparatory School (AZ)www.21k12blog.net
Why Innovate?
Why innovate?
Richard Florida: “Human creativity is the ultimate source of economic resource.”
percentage strongly agreeing
20
45
My Job requires I be creative
1977 2002
Source: Jerald, Defining a 21st century education
Win the Future
Flow
“the prep school tradition is, in fact, traditional.”
Visiting Schools
• Picture– bored kids
The good high school project
Innovation: It’s not that complicated
“Think about the path of evolution as the continual exploration of the adjacent possible.” (Where Good Ideas Come From, SBJ)
1. Leverage the Adjacent Possible
2. Exploit Liquid Networks3. Cultivate Slow Hunches4. Seek Serendipity5. Embrace Error6. Employ Exaptation7. Play on Platforms
Solitude &
Leadership
William Deresiewicz
the answers to our dilemmas are not to be found on Twitter. They
can only be found within—without distractions, in
solitude.
Twitter is a “coral reef” for nurturing creativity. Steven Johnson
only_point_five
Video is the Killer App.
Don’t write me. Tell me.
Show me.
Chris Anderson: Crowd
Accelerated Innovation
Ted Talk, 9:16-11:23
“You can track innovation online by looking at the moment a community was first able to share its talents digitally.” Chris Anderson, Crowd Accelerated Innovation.
6b. Reverse Instruction: Do the Flip
1.Associating2.Questioning3.Observing4.Experimenting5.Networking
Innovation must start at the top, and must be a core value of the organization
Innovation is everyone’s job. “the Think Different campaign at Apple targeted Apple’s employees as much as its customers.”
Steve Jobs explained: “The whole purpose of the Think Different campaign was that people had forgotten what Apple stood for, including its employees.”
Essential qualities of Innovators:
1. Curiosity2. Collaboration3. Associative thinking4. Bias toward action &
experimentation
Play Passion Purpose
Play Passion Purpose
Essential Ed. Elements1.Hands on projects
solving real problems 2.Collaboration:
Working in Teams 3.Creating4.Multi-disciplinary
learning5.Design Thinking6.Trial and Error
Seven Strategies for Innovation1. Be opportunistic2.Take Time to Mess Around3.Learn to Fail4.Think in Metaphors5.Go to Extremes6.Look for Crossroads7.Stand on Other’s Shoulders*8.Provide the Time & Space9.Employ Design Thinking
*TEDx
“Good Ideas are not conjured out of thin air–
they are built of a collection of existing parts.” (SBJ)
Suggestions for Innovative Schools & Students
1. Highlight, Spotlight, Model, & Embed 2. Provide the Time & Space
3. Network4. Collaborate5. Inter and Multi Disciplinary Learning
6. Mess about and Play7. Fail, Prototype, and Iterate8. Learn by Doing: Project-Based Learning9. Use Tech, especially Web 2.0 & Digital Video
10. Use Assessments Which Measure Innovation11. Post, Publish, Share
LEAD
CONNECT
DO
DESIGN
MEASURE & REPORT
Lead
Connect
Do Design
Measure & Report
Lead
Spotlight, Highlight, Inform
Embed: The St. Gregory Egg
The Innovation Diploma
Declare your intent, take a core course, accumulate credits, and complete a major project.
Submit a Declaration of Intent freshman or sophomore year.
Complete a core L/I course freshman or sophomore year. Leadership, Design/Build, or other courses to be named later.
Meet quarterly with Program Director. Update on requirements, check progress. Brainstorm opportunities, give feedback.
Earn 5 leadership credits between 9th and 12th grades. Serve in a leadership role in a school extracurricular and reflect on accomplishments. (Required for one
unit). Use things you’d be already doing anyway, but choose to set goals and reflect upon them. Use Academic Experiences for Credit: Write a research paper on a L/I topic; pursue an extra-credit
laboratory project on L/I; etc. (Maximum 2 units)
Complete a “capstone project” junior or senior year.Complete a 20 hour project (can count toward Comm/Serve or be part of another involvement, such as student council) and write a 400 word reflection. This can be, but doesn’t have to be, done as part of the peer leadership program in 12th grade.
Connect
Open the Network
No medium in history has ever offered such unlikely trails of connection in such an accessible form… An online newspaper, [compared to a dead-tree paper], is ten times more serendipitous. (SJB)
“Environments that block or limit new combinations– by punishing experimentation or by obscuring certain branches of possibility, will, on average, generate and circulate fewer innovations than environments that encourage exploration.” SJB
I use twitter to mine for teachable moments, interesting activities, and ways to broaden my thinking about teaching and learning.
If I have questions...there are people in my PLN who can help me. It has been a fun and interesting experiment for me.
“Decades of educational research have demonstrated that unstructured group discussion has the potential to teach students the sort of group creativity that the new economy demands.” Keith Sawyer, quoted in Jerald, Defining a 21st century education
Collaborate
Cross Disciplinary Projects
Design
Do
Fail, Prototype, Iterate
Fab Lab and design-build course
Measure, Report, Publish, Post, and Share
STG 2009 STG 2010 All Schools (Averaged)
8690
75
I have opportunities to be creative in the classroom
Percentage Strongly Agreeing
Collect the right data
New Creativity Assessments Coming Soon
Grant Wiggins: Educators sometimes say that they shy from assessing creative thought for fear of inhibiting students, but this is a grave error in my view
All Schools St. Gregory 09 St. Gregory 10
7282
92
We regularly discuss questions with no clear answers
What Excites & Engages Me?
Lecture Discussion and Debate
Group Projects Projects Involving Technology
28
6560
55
All HSSSE students
Authentically Measuring Critical Thinking & Effective Problem Solving
CWRA/CLA median percentile, College Freshman Normed