Ideas generated in the Killer Innovation workshop on education

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.

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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

What are the top 3 ideas you could get behind?