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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. On YouTube |  Subscribe in iTunes The major groupings that emerged were: Teacher

Phil McKinney
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Killer Innovation workshop

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 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?

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Phil McKinney is an innovator, podcaster, author, and speaker. He is the retired CTO of HP. Phil's book, Beyond The Obvious, shares his expertise and lessons learned on innovation and creativity.

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