{"id":135,"date":"2011-10-02T08:06:06","date_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:06:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=135"},"modified":"2011-10-02T08:06:06","modified_gmt":"2011-10-02T08:06:06","slug":"135","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/?p=135","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Creativity<\/span>\u00a0is\u00a0<\/em>thinking\u00a0up new things.\u00a0Innovation<\/span>\u00a0is <\/em>doing\u00a0new things. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Theodore Levitt<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Innovation in education can and will take different forms. Leadbeater (2011) refers to five options for strategizing change. Personally, when I read Leadbeater\u2019s ideas, I find I am forced to take a much larger view of education, as if helicoptering above to see it in the grander global context.\u00a0\"\"<\/a>Some of these strategies identify tactics we already use but others require us to stretch our thinking. His five strategies for innovation are summarized here. Are you using any of these at your school?<\/p>\n

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  1. Develop practices for the future.<\/span>\u00a0This is different than best practice (think of it as \u201cnext practice\u201d) and is about creating a way of learning specifically designed for the future.\u00a0 Others would take it one step further, where practices intentionally are designed to disrupt the status quo and transform existing educational practice. Leadbeater cites Deming\u2019s quality circles in Japan as a concrete example. In education he gives the example of Cramlington Community College and their \u201clearning to learn\u201d lessons and \u201cblended learning\u201d in the U.S. \u00a0Are we teaching for the future?<\/em><\/li>\n
  2. Extend innovation beyond the singular classroom to the entire schoolhouse.<\/span>\u00a0In this instance, it is not just classroom pedagogy that shifts but whole \u201cclassroom design, timetabling, curriculum assessment, student voice.\u201d Models in the private sector include Google, 3M, Apple and Pixar and in the education sector, High Tech High. These organizations include a core set of values (e.g. \u201cmaking insanely great products\u201d), non-hierarchical collaboration, innovative capacity honored\u00a0across<\/em>\u00a0the organization, strategic hiring, and incredibly high standards (including peer-to-peer reviews).\u00a0Which characteristics are evident in your school?<\/em><\/li>\n
  3. Create educational innovation as an interconnected system or platform of complimentary services.<\/span>\u00a0Think of Apple\u2019s iPhone or iPad and its complimentary iTunes service. The two work together. In education, we embrace this notion in small ways when we look to outside experts, volunteers or work experience opportunities for students.\u00a0Are there scaled up ways we could implement the platform notion? Are there existing partnerships that could be leveraged to provide greater system-wide support?<\/em><\/li>\n
  4. Design innovation through alliance building.<\/span>\u00a0Create a social network that is committed to creating innovation as a social change movement. This is bigger than the platform approach and is best understood as, \u201ca contest between an old order and a new one.\u201d\u00a0How does an educator\u2019s use of social media and twitter fit into this context?<\/em><\/li>\n
  5. Establish an innovative culture that changes the current ideology.<\/span>\u00a0\u201cIt means encouraging people to adopt a different point of view and different behaviors to see products in a different light.\u201d Apple used this strategy when it created the anti-corporate message: buy our products and become part of the anti-establishment. Nike was not so much about great shoes as it was about \u201cjust do it.\u201d So what are the ideas about education and learning we need to change? \u201cIf\u2026innovation in education is about confronting and dislodging entrenched ideologies about learning,\u201d we need to have some agreement about those entrenched ideologies.\u00a0Are you having this conversation? And how might this dialogue change what we do?<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Do we have any experience using these strategies in our schools? Have we identified the gap between what we have and what we need? Can we open ourselves to a more collaborative model of innovation with those inside and outside the system? How can we deploy the five strategies to leverage a future for all of us? What is your next step?<\/p>\n

    This post is adapted from Charles Leadbeater\u2019s article\u00a0Rethinking Innovation in Education: Learning in Victoria 2020<\/em>\u00a0(Draft January 2011). Thanks to Superintendent Mike McKay for sharing this article as one of his assigned readings for the Global Education Leaders\u2019 Program.<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Creativity\u00a0is\u00a0thinking\u00a0up new things.\u00a0Innovation\u00a0is doing\u00a0new things. \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Theodore Levitt Innovation in education can and will take different forms. Leadbeater (2011) refers to five options for strategizing change. Personally, when I read Leadbeater\u2019s ideas, I find I am forced to take a much larger view of education, as if helicoptering above to see it in the grander…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,6],"tags":[10,14,287,46,47],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=135"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/135\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=135"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=135"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/innovativelearningdesigns.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=135"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}