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Valerie Hannon: The Innovation Unit, England
2008 Curriculum Corporation Conference
Melbourne, Australia
November 2008
‘Only Connect’
Learning Innovation
There has never been a better time to embark on a complete rethink of
our priorities
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 ManiziniPoitecnico of Milan
real live
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processes
values
ideas
organisations
The beginnings of a research field…
An emerging UK field of thought leadership…
…with an exploding array of exemplary social innovation organisations…
…and an inspiring catalogue of social innovation practice
Idea set #1: Von Hippel, Leadbeater, Shirky
• profound changes have arisen in business and social enterprises because ICT enables mass collaboration, and self organisation on a massive scale
• users are developing products/services with companies freely and open-sourced: democratised innovation
• a different model of social change: transformation by many small steps
Idea set #2: Clayton Christensen
• Disruptive innovation is what is needed to transform learning/schooling
• D.I. is a positive force: it’s the process where an innovation transforms a market where services are complicated and expensive into one characterised by simplicity, convenience and accessibility
• D.I. disrupts the upward improvement trajectory• Often poorer, initially, than conventional service; so not
attractive to market leaders and their customers
the principles of social innovation….
• open
• collaborative
• free
• with (not ‘to’ or ‘for’)
Connect learning ecosystems!
• engages children in growing and celebrating food
• twin concepts of the open classroom and expanded faculty
• brings together gardeners, artists, cooks, teachers, and the local community
• “to know our world through a plot of land”
Our mission is bigger than our footprint…
‘networked nonprofits achieve lofty missions with humble means…[by putting] their mission first and their organisation second…and they cooperate as equal nodes as a constellation of actors’
Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2008
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these ‘next practice’ schools model the effort to build new relationships (connections) which ~
• build participation• provide learners with recognition• make children feel cared for• motivate
This is learning ‘with’; not ‘to’ or ‘for’Charles LeadbeaterWhat’s Next? 2008
Learning Feature
Where learning takes place
Mainly in schools
Past
Who learns from Teachers
Learning Mode Instruction
When In school terms and hours
The lesson
Assessment End of the line
Focus on cognitive skills
How In classrooms, from books, whiteboards
Funding To schools and school boards
Standards/Measures Top down
In schools (including Studio schools, learning villages and open campuses), cultural centres, businesses, homes, virtual centres and other places across the city
Future
Teachers, parents, other skilled adults, peers and social networksInteraction, collaboration
More learning by doing and discovery
All the time, in different periods that more suit people’s individual learning
During learning for better learning
More peer-to-peer evaluation and self-evaluation against learning plans
More focus on non-cognitive skills
More real world learning
Schools as productive units
More to pupils, learning networks
More bottom up targets and self-evaluation
‘The future’s already here – it’s just unevenly distributed’
William Gibson
Engagement(through)
Relevance:• enterprise and enquiry led• knowledge and skills balance• learning through doing• thematic and project emphasis
Learning which is deep, authentic and motivational
Co-construction• negotiation of curriculum• content and delivery modes• location• timetabling
Integration(of)
In/out of school contexts:• learning processes settings and styles• informal, formal and virtual learning• family, business and community partnerships
Learner/teacher mix:• peer tutors• teachers as learners• parents• external experts• mentoring, coaching and learning communities
© Paul Hamlyn Foundation & The Innovation Unit
Pedagogy for Tomorrow- the view from Finland
• Ubiquitous technology, ubiquitous opportunity• Collaborative, social-constructivist learning• Problem-based instruction• Progressive inquiry, experimental study• Peer feedback and peer cooperation
Director General, Finnish Board of Education
Timo Lankinen
“Only connect!That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height.Live in fragments no longer.” E.M.ForsterHowards End 1910