What is education innovation? #EduCommunity Answers (Part 1 of 5)
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2 min readMar 9, 2018
- Putting student experience first
- Adapting education techniques to work under changing circumstances
- Transforming our factory-model education system into a system that teaches innovation, creativity, leadership, empathy, and social impact
- Staying will the culture and the world and finding ways to make life, education, everything better
- Boundary less
- Thinking of ways to address students’ needs by pulling from outside the ‘field of education’
- Experimentation followed by debriefing
- Disruptions to the way things are
- I GIVE KIDS A VOICE
- Thinking outside traditional constraints and working toward change
- Doing things better and fresher to make positive changes that improve future-facing, real-world, youth-centered teaching + learning!
- Keeping up with the interest of our kiddos
- Doing thinks to help students reach their full potential
- Growth mindset
- Discovering, creating, or introducing “new” principles, tools, or other resources to support education outcomes
- Thinking in new ways to help lifelong learning for the future
- Designing engaging activities that foster the 4 Cs
- Doing what is needed to meet goals, often thinking about new ways of doing/communicating
- Using a mix of modern research driven strategies and the capitol of amazing educators to implement effective, fresh learning experiences
- Teaching in a new way to increase retention + curiosity
- The freedom to return to a type of system where our beliefs match our practices
- Making sustainable and measurable improvements to the edu status quo
- Challenging the status quo
- Out of the box thinking, connections, questioning paradigms and assumptions
- Looking for ways to meet students where they are and build — currently
- Responding to the changing / evolving needs of students in relation to the world we live in
- Creating new solutions for education view-points*
- Valuable improvement within the context
- Building upon what works and boldly experimenting in exciting ways to improve growth
- CHANGE FOR BETTER
See
- Part 2: How do you define community?
- Part 3: What type of community are you building?
- Part 4: How do you design for diversity, inclusion, and equity in your community?
- Part 5: What is your major question regarding community building?
The #EduCommunity Answers series transcribes answers to questions given to participants in Growing an Engaged Education Innovation Community, a SXSW EDU workshop by Jessica Falkenthal, John Baldo, and Deborah Chang.