Simon BreakspearFounder and CEO of LearnLabs!!Simon Breakspear is recognised internationally as a leading thinker on the future of learning and educational innovation. Simon is the founder and CEO of LearnLabs, a global learning strategy and design agency, that helps school, system, policy and business leaders design and deliver high-impact strategies to enable 21st Century learning at scale. He has worked with and spoken to leaders across Australia, New Zealand, the USA, the UK, Europe, Canada, Israel, Hong Kong and India. !!As a passionate educator and learning strategist, Simon works on systemic challenges in education reform and redesign. He also advises EdTech start-ups around the globe that are seeking to develop disruptive education models to improve the quality and equity of student learning. Simon holds a first class honours degree in Psychology, a Bachelor of Teaching, a MSc. in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oxford, and is a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. He was a Gates Scholar at the University of Cambridge, and Commonwealth Scholar at the University of Oxford
www.simonbreakspear.com!www.learnlabs.com!www.zaya.org!
LEARNING HAS NEVER !BEEN MORE !IMPORTANT
EDUCATION MUST!BE REDESIGNED
WHO WILL WRITE THE FUTURE LEARNING STORY? !!
NETWORKED EDUPRENEURS WITH A COMPELLING VISION FOR LEARNING
THE FUTURE OF LEARNING WILL BE CO-CREATED!
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5 COMPETENCIES!of EDUpreneurs![Designed For Action not Reflection]
What can we learn from education pioneers and innovators from around the globe?!
2. EXPLORE
PURPOSE DRIVEN IMPACT
1. Question
3. ITERATE
4. SCALE5. HUSTLE
QUESTION1
Become relentless and insistent on shifting the status quo
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What if … ?!!
How might we …?
Disruption Over Delivery Questions
Harness Passion as a Driver for Change
Continually learn from the best ideas inside and outside of education.
EXPLORE2
Stuck in same...
Tinkering towards Utopia
A new vision for learning and teaching !
Rapidly accelerate ideation through connecting with the best educational ideas on the planet
The cost of being on the leading-edge is $0
Meet Stephen Harris, Principal, !Sydney Centre for Innovation in Learning
Strategically seek out ideas from outside education
Medici effect: Breakthrough insights come at the intersection of ideas, disciplines, perspectives, concepts and cultures.
Be PERPETUALLY
Create & improve new solutions through rapid prototyping.
ITERATE3
MAKE and DO rather than think
& meet
Launch, launch and reiterate
Ship it.
Bias towards action
Go. Go. Go
PIVOT or PERSEVERE
Reframe Failure as Learning
Scale your idea to impact the lives of as many learners as possible.
SCALE4
10xMultiply your vision
Fazle Hasan Abed
--> Reaches 138 million of the poorest people in nine countries in Asia and Africa
"Small may be beautiful, but big is necessary"
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!We need to let go of your ideas
Make your idea contagious
Leverage the new tools for mass organisation
without hierarchy
Scale a movement: Networks over hierarchy
PioneersLone
EcosystemInnovation
Demonstrate resourcefulness and ingenuity to find a way forward.
HUSTLE5
"Genius is 1% inspiration and 99% perspiration."
- Thomas Edison
Execute. Execute. Execute.
Embrace Constraints as Drivers
2. EXPLORE
PURPOSE DRIVEN IMPACT
1. Question
3. ITERATE
4. SCALE5. HUSTLE
Steward of the Status Quo !
OR
Architect of New Learning Designs
Go. Make Innovation Happen.
"Unless someone like you.... cares a whole awful lot, ....nothing is going to get better...... It's not." ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! ! Dr. Seuss!
Let’s redesign learning
www.simonbreakspear.com
www.simonbreakspear.com!www.learnlabs.com!www.zaya.org!