How to Turn Your Classroom into an Idea Factory

Culture Design Thinking Teaching Strategies Brightworks School Students building a cafe at Brightworks School in San Francisco. By Suzie Boss The following suggestions for turning K-12 classrooms into innovation spaces come from Bringing Innovation to School: Empowering Students to Thrive in a Changing World, published in July by Solution Tree. How can we prepare today’s students to become tomorrow’s innovators? If we’re serious about preparing students to become innovators, educators have some hard work ahead. How do we fill the gap between saying we must encourage innovation and teaching students how to actually generate and execute original ideas? Across disparate fields, from engineering and technology to the social and environmental sectors, innovators use a common problem-solving process. In the classroom, this same process corresponds neatly with the stages of project-based learning. Good projects start with good questions. Innovators have a tendency to think big. Related

La salle de classe planétaire LE MONDE | • Mis à jour le | Par Flore Vasseur Daphne Koller a une dent contre l'école. Enfant, cette Israélienne veut découvrir les équations du troisième degré et la danse, l'histoire de la Grèce antique et la poésie. Comme tous les élèves, elle doit subir le programme, rentrer dans les cases. Sa soif d'apprendre se cogne à l'éducation formatée. Elle abandonne l'école, avec le soutien de ses parents. Daphne commence par devenir professeur. Devenue l'une des enseignantes les mieux notées de l'un des campus les plus réputés, l'ennui revient pourtant : "Passer ma vie à aller dans la même salle de classe, faire la même leçon, raconter les mêmes blagues, au même moment..., ce n'est pas une bonne utilisation de mon temps ni de celui des élèves." Lors d'une conférence au Google Education Summit, cette petite brune à l'énergie adolescente assiste à une présentation de YouTube sur l'éducation. C'est le concept de "flip education", le renversement des tempos et la revalorisation du professeur.

Why Schools Should Help Students Find Their Passion | Economy on GOOD "Many people spend their entire lives doing things they don't really care for" and "endure their lives" says reknowned creativity expert Sir Ken Robinson in a talk for the School of Life on finding our purpose and following our passion. Robinson—who is known for speaking out against our highly standardized, one-size-fits-all education system that follows a "linear mode of production" and steers workers toward filling slots at companies so our economy can "beat China"—says the problem with this system is that humans are hard wired to use our imaginations and produce new things. When we find ourselves doing things we aren't passionate about, we are, unsurprisingly, pretty miserable. As always, Robinson has plenty of fascinating anecdotes about creativity and learning, but towards the end of his talk (around the 46:00 mark) he shares a story that's especially relevant for those students—and their parents—heading to college in a few weeks.

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Outline for a New Pedagogical Framework | Education is one of the most fertile fields for innovation. There is a continuous effort by the community to improve the pedagogy and think of new ways of reaching out to students in newer and better ways. And yet, the education system is among the most archaic, slow-to-change creatures in India (and albeit in a slightly well-dressed manner, in the West too). One explanation to this contradiction is that the large mass of people that comprise the education system are not the same dedicated, creative, not to mention smart people that are at the vanguard of creative life-changing, transformative education. Another is that experiments are sometimes successful and sometimes not so much, and serious improvements are often not recognized and incorporated into curriculum for a long time. Frameworks that Fossilize Education has seen a number of new innovations over the years. When we look at the trajectories of these new ideas, we find that they are most robust in their developing years.