Learning Innovation
Leading the Way
Valerie Hannon,
Innovation Unit, UK
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Drivers of innovation
in education:
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Technological change
is accelerating.
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To reach 50,000,000 users, it took…
38 years
13 years
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4 years
3 years
Eric Qualman, Socialnomics, 2009
To reach 100,000,000 users, it took Facebook…
9 months
Eric Qualman, Socialnomics, 2009
“In medical education we’re
still a very memory-based
curriculum... Watson-like tools
will cause us to reconsider
what students do.”
Dr Herbert Chase
Columbia University
New York Times Feb 17 2011
World Recession
In many countries, deep problems with
public sector borrowing, spending and debt
Profound long-lasting consequences
for all public services
Swingeing cuts in services either
underway or in prospect
The search for ‘more for less’
Globalisation, so what?
Integrated world markets (IT & containerisation
mean new lower-cost producers in the world market)
Jobs can be quickly transferred from one side of the
world to another
Consumers/researchers look across the world for the best
Higher order skills are at a premium
Education itself is globalising: mobile students,
distance/online learning, competition between providers
Understanding identity, core values and cultural practices
is more important than ever
Worldwide demand for learning
DEVELOPING WORLD
DEVELOPED WORLD
Career Paths are changing.
20TH CENTURY
21ST CENTURY
1-2 jobs, mastery of one field
10-15 jobs, breadth,
depth in several fields
A distressed environment…
“The dream of wellbeing dreamt until
now by a few is not sustainable for all.
We have to change. We have to learn
how to live better, consuming fewer
environmental resources and regenerating
the contexts of life.”
Ezio Manizini,
Politecnico of Milan
Taken to together, these
drivers point to
transformation, not just
improvement
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Time
Pedagogy
Partnership
Place
it’s not either/or
it’s both, and….
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S-Curve: raised goals
or different goals?
Closing / Transitioning 5
Extracting Efficiencies 4
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Operationalizing the results 3
Scaling for growth
Architecting the future
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Jumping and
Transforming
The innovator’s (and
the evaluator’s) dilemma
Adapted from Ready or Not? Taking Innovation
in the public sector seriously (NESTA 2007)
So what?…
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‘school improvement’ is a continuing nonnegotiable
we can’t know to what degree transformation
can be planned – or will disrupt and overtake
planning it will entail a range of skills and
approaches: social, political, educational
In addition to school improvement, we need
disciplined radical experimentation around
some of the key architecture of ‘schooling’ – to
reinvent it for 21st conditions and learning.
Some international approaches
New York City
•School improvement
focusing on better
assessment and core
standards
•Establishment of NYC
iZone; design partners;
new models
Finland
•Continuing push with
high-quality teacher
education and
curriculum reform
•Developing ‘ecosystem’ of partnership
projects pushing the
boundaries of ‘school’