Data Source: OECD (Feb 2012)

Youth to Adult Unemployment Ratio

Schools are……abstract, theoretical

…organized by discipline

Work is……concrete, dynamic, interdisciplinary

…organized by projects

Skill Mismatch

Social Innovation- new ideas, concepts, processes, or

strategies that solve complex problems while contributing

towards the well-being of others

Technologyhttp://www.fastcoexist.com/1679251/ask-the-experts-what-is-social-innovation

Changing Landscape

Social Innovation in Education

Transforming education to matchtoday’s needs

Big Questions

http://siieducators.orghttp://www.facebook.com/SocialInnovationInstituteForEducators

Thank you!

Scenarios

• Allowing Students to Visit New Places and People on a Low Budget

• Affordable and Effective Tutoring• Managing Group Projects• Teach kids about the realities of poverty• Teach empathy• Fundraise for school projects• Create awareness among students about what

they buy• Have more time for applied projects in the

classroom

Scenarios• Allowing Students to Visit New Places and People on a Low Budget

– Skype in the Classroom• Affordable and Effective Tutoring

– Khan Academy• Managing Group Projects

– Trello• Teach kids about the realities of poverty

– Third World Farmer• Teach empathy

– Dialogue in the Dark• Fundraise for school projects

– Piggybackr• Create awareness among students about what they buy

– Ride2Learn• Have more time for applied projects in the classroom

– Flipped Classroom• Brainstorm with Peers

– Open IDEO

Some Ideas…• Analyze and assess the needs of your students and you community...You know best!• Design your own initiative to implement in your classroom or school

– Design Thinking Toolkit• http://dyadicdesign.com

• Project Based Learning- Create Applied Projects– Create consulting projects or case studies for students– Flipped Classroom

• Take time to look up organizations that have projects or material you could pilot in your classroom:

– ChangeEducate– Ride2Learn– Big History Project– Piggybackr

• Collaborate with peers to learn more about their fields and start interdisciplinary projects

• Clubs for students to work on their own projects – Young Changers Society

• Independent Study-Allow students to design their own project• Promote an entrepreneurial ecosystem

– K-12 Business Competitions– $500 Entrepreneurial Challenge