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"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.” (SBJ)
“Good Ideas are not conjured out of thin air–
they are built of a collection of existing parts.” (SBJ)
Less Actually, More UncertaintyLess Actually
More Uncertainty
Ellen Langer, The Power of Mindful
Learning
When we teach as if there are absolute truths to be learned, we leave little reason to think about them. Then, there is little chance that the information will lead to any conceptual insights or even be rethought in a new context.
Comfort with notion of no right answer
14
37Superintendents Employers
Source: Craig Jerald, Defining 21st century education
Ms. Taylor constantly told the class how little she knew. “Sorry, sometimes I jump to conclusions too quickly.”
She stressed the importance of collecting conflicting information before making up one’s mind, of calibrating one’s certainty level to the strength of the evidence, of enduring uncertainty for long stretches as an answer became clear, of correcting for one’s biases.
Ms. Taylor constantly told the class how little she knew. “Sorry, sometimes I jump to conclusions too quickly.”
She stressed the importance of collecting conflicting information before making up one’s mind, of calibrating one’s certainty level to the strength of the evidence, of enduring uncertainty for long stretches as an answer became clear, of correcting for one’s biases.
discussion
discuss with a neighbor:
how would you promote less actually and more uncertainty at your school?
Discuss with a neighbor: how would you promote less actually and more uncertainty at your school?
The Norm
Less Autonomy
More Mastering
“the urge to master something new & engaging is the biggest predictor of productivity.” Dan Pink, Drive.
Dweck’s Growth Mindset: “when applying knowledge to new situations, those with learning, rather than performance, goals, are much more successful.”
Discuss: How can our Schools promote more mastering?
Less Solitude
More Networking
Solitude and
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
“the most creative individuals consistently had broad social networks that extended outside their organization.”sjcockell
RSA Animate, WGICF: 2:54-3:54
• Johnson:
• “The question is how to push your brain toward more creative networks. The answer is delightfully fractal.”
“The question is how to push your brain toward more creative networks. The answer is delightfully fractal.”
Image, Prokoviev, Wikipedia Commons
“To make your mind more innovative, place it inside networks that mimic the neural networks of a mind.”
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)
“Google strives for new ideas: everyone is expected to have ideas.” Baker/Burns
“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.
The Flip
Discuss: How can our schools promote more networking?
“Environments that block or limit those 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
Less Isolation
More Collaboration
“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
Discuss
Less Perfection
More Error
“Being right keeps you in place. Being wrong forces you to explore. Leaving some room for generative error is important. Innovative environments thrive on useful mistakes.” Steven Johnson
“it is better to get out there with an early product, even before all the kinks are worked out, and to listen to what its users say about how the product should grow and change… relinquish control and accept a risk-taking and good enough for now mindset.” Google, in Baker/Burns.
“Innovation, Not Instant Perfection”
Awards and Rewards
Discuss
STG 2009 STG 2010 All Schools (Averaged)
8690
75
I have opportunities to be creative in the classroom
Percentage Strongly Agreeing
Less of their data
More of your data
All Schools St. Gregory 09 St. Gregory 10
7282
92
We regularly discuss questions with no clear answers
Data is apolitical
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
Video is the Killer App.
Don’t write me. Tell me.
Show me.
More video
Ted Talk, 9:16-11:23