What is education innovation? #EduCommunity Answers (Part 1 of 5)

• 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.