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# Ideas generated in the Killer Innovation workshop on education
- URL: https://www.philmckinney.com/ideas-generated-killer-innovation-workshop-education/
- Published: 2011-05-31T13:44:19.000Z
- Updated: 2016-07-20T23:35:30.000Z
- Description: On May 6th 2011, 11 people volunteered their time to participate in a Killer Innovations workshop to “Innovate Education”. The following video shows the “grouping exercise” for the ideas generated during the workshop. On YouTube | Subscribe in iTunes The major groupings that emerged were: Teacher
- Author: Phil McKinney
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On May 6th 2011, 11 people volunteered their time to participate in a Killer Innovations workshop to “Innovate Education”. The following video shows the “grouping exercise” for the ideas generated during the workshop.

[On YouTube](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJ5wZE63fQM&ref=philmckinney.com) | [Subscribe in iTunes](http://itunes.apple.com/podcast/killer-innovations/id73329271?ref=philmckinney.com)

The major groupings that emerged were:

- Teacher retirement based on % of student income
- Re-emphasize 4H, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts in the schools
- Think global versus national or local about education
- Stop focusing on best practices (copying what others do). Its about “next” practice
- Be willing to test alternative approaches to education
- Make technology part of the education process
- Teachers + Students design curriculum
- Corporate support for education
- Rethink preparing students for post high school when not going to college
- Students teaching students
- Work study/mentoring/apprenticeship to augment the classroom
- Fix the “test” focused approach to education
- Look at the design of the classroom environment (lighting, work surfaces, etc)
- Teach critical and creative thinking skills across all subjects
- Expand the use of specialty schools (magnet, science/technology, art, etc)
- Bring back art, music and foreign language
- Recreate the teacher evaluation and pay system
- Redesign the structure of the school day/year
- Fix the funding model (e.g. change Prop 13 in California)
- Go Digital – Education version of the electronic medical record (e.g. full transparency for parents)
- Change the homework (e.g . too much, busy work rather than teaching)
- Dropout prevention
- Admin/teach mentoring and rotation to avoid the us versus them
- Match teaching and learning styles (e.g. verbal, visual, tactical, etc)

A high-res version of the grouping diagram along with the closeup's of the individual sections is [available on Flickr](http://www.flickr.com/photos/13609005@N02/sets/72157626844463192/?ref=philmckinney.com)

What are the top 3 ideas you could get behind?