“Schools and teachers are operating not only in a new age but in a new world order in which entrepreneurs and philanthropists are venturing into the business of schooling. Look no further than inventor of SpaceX, PayPal, and Tesla Motors, Elon Musk who has set up an alternative school for his children after describing his own schooling experience as uninspiring and basically obsolete. Then there is Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy who has no formal teaching qualifications but created free online access to educational content. Khan has just opened a physical lab school to ‘pioneer new models of learning’. Note that ‘teaching’ is missing from its vision statement. The new assumption at least for Khan is that teachers will play a supporting role now not a leading one.”
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Are some people just born innovative or can you follow a process to be innovative (and in essence be taught how to be innovative)? Replace innovation with creativity in the question and what do you think? Can you teach someone to be creative? https://stevebrophy.com.au/2016/09/04/can-you-teach-someone-to-be-innovative/
Classrooms have been transformed by shifting fashions since the 1970s – free-range layouts; learning hubs and beanbag drop zones; moveable walls, to name a few. But there has been remarkably little effort by researchers anywhere to unpick the relationships between the hardware, the software, the infrastructure, the teaching and the student report cards.
“The thing is that we cannot say how or when these changes will occur, or even if they will occur. But preparing for these kinds of shifts and changes in rigorous in its proposition.
Which means that being proactive in preparing assures that we are not being reactive and flat-footed when and if these changes do come. As Hemingway says, “Gradually, then suddenly.” Relevance is often lost when we find ourselves lulled into a sense of complacency during the “gradually” period, being left in a reactive and overwhelmed state when “suddenly” appears.
When our organizations and individuals don’t prepare for next steps in the present of the “gradually” then we find ourselves stranded in the future when the state of “suddenly” arrives, often in a volatile fashion.”“Education is ripe for disruptive change leading to innovative practices that improve learning outcomes for our students. What might have worked in the past will not necessarily have the same impact today, as the world has changed dramatically in a short period of time. It’s safe to say that the seismic shifts we are witnessing as a result of technological advances will continue to reshape our world in ways that we could never have imagined. Disruption has become commonplace in the new world and organizations have moved from adaptation to evolution in order to not only survive, but more importantly thrive.”
“I just wonder how I will be any different from the thousands who are studying the same things and will do similar jobs, and I can’t figure out a concrete answer. Of course, my creativity would have differentiated me from the rest of the world, but, that has been considerably stilted in the process of schooling.”
