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Charles Leadbeater Leading authority on innovation. Learning from Extremes DEECD Innovation Showcase, Melbourne, May 2010. Charles Leadbeater. What kind of innovation do we need? Why do we need it? Who does it and how?. Your vantage point determines what you can see….
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Charles Leadbeater Leading authority on innovation
Learning from Extremes DEECD Innovation Showcase, Melbourne, May 2010 Charles Leadbeater
What kind of innovation do we need? Why do we need it? Who does it and how?
Which strategy you adopt depends on why you need to do it
Which strategy you adopt will shape how you innovate
Where can you see what education and learning might become ?
Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Good people teaching, well trained, well motivated and supported in the right conditions
But in the developing world… Poor teacher quality + motivation High rates of repetition and drop out
And in the developed world… Main issues: community, culture and family
And in the developed world… Danger : hitting the target, missing the point
Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Different kinds of learning in different kinds of institution
Big colleges that feel small Teachers as coaches Learners as self-reflective protagonists Problem/question oriented learning Collaborative and real world
But… There are lots of obstacles and traps on the journey from improve to reform
And… Even that may not get all you need because what happens outside schools and colleges matters so much to learning
Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Social and emotional conditions for learning
Culture of aspiration and ambition Combined with economic change
Challenges… Where do you invest? What skills do you need? Is school the right vehicle?
Mapping education innovation Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Technology: ubiquitous participation, connection, collaboration
Radical innovation comes from the margins: social entrepreneurs and the hardest to reach
Holistic (education with health, community and economic development)
High levels of tangible community commitment
Employ different people, technologies, places for learning
Learning as a making, doing, earning activity
How much would you invest, where? Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Where would you start? Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
What order would you do things in? Location Formal Informal Innovation Type Sustaining Disruptive
Where do resources go? Dominant Supportive Improve Supplement Dealing with what the mainstream cannot cope with Alternative Reinvent Not disruptive but marginal
Where should resources go? Improve Supplement Reinvent Transform