learning to innovate, innovating to learn
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Learning to Innovate, Innovating to Learn. Tony Wagner, Ed.D. Innovation Education Fellow Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard [email protected] www.tonywagner.com. “ The formulation of the problem is often more essential than the solution. ” Einstein. - PowerPoint PPT PresentationTRANSCRIPT
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Learning to Innovate, Innovating to Learn
Tony Wagner, Ed.D.Innovation Education Fellow
Technology & Entrepreneurship Center at Harvard [email protected]
www.tonywagner.com
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“The formulation of the problem is often more essential than the solution.”
Einstein
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The New Educational Challenges
• NEW SKILLS for Work, Continuous Learning & Citizenship in a “knowledge society” for ALL STUDENTS
– Convergence of skills needed for careers, college, citizenship in the 21st c
– Students lacking skills relegated to marginal employment & citizenship
– The only people whose jobs cannot be automated or off-shored in a “hyper connected” world are the innovators
• The “Net Generation” is differently motivated to learn– Boredom is the leading cause of low achievement & student
dropouts; boys, in particular…
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The Seven Survival Skills for Careers, College, And Citizenship
1. Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving 2. Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by
Influence3. Agility and Adaptability4. Initiative and Entrepreneurialism5. Effective Oral and Written Communication6. Accessing and Analyzing Information7. Curiosity and Imagination
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Implications for “Reinvention”
From An Information-based Learning System• Focus on “Timeless Learning” (academic
content that has persisted over time); content is a glutted commodity—low value in the classroom
To A Transformation-based Learning System• Focus on using content to master the
competencies of “Just-in-Time Learning”, or experience over content
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The Culture of Learning versus
The Culture of Innovation
• Individual Achievement versus Collaboration• Specialization versus Multi-disciplinary
Learning• Risk Avoidance versus Trial and Error• Consuming versus Creating• Extrinsic versus Intrinsic Motivation
– Play, Passion, and Purpose
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Redefining Rigor: 5 “Habits of Mind” Learning to Ask The Right Questions
• Weighing Evidence – How do we know what’s true and false? What is the evidence, and is it
credible?• Awareness of Varying Viewpoints
– What viewpoint are we hearing? Who is the author, and what are his or her intentions? How might it look to someone with a different history?
• Seeing Connections/Cause & Effect– Is there a pattern? How are things connected? Where have we seen this
before?• Speculating on Possibilities/Conjecture
– What if? Supposing that? Can we imagine alternatives?• Assessing Value—Both Socially and Personally
– What difference does it make? Who cares? So what?From www.missionhillschool.org
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Questions Parents Might Want To Ask:
• To your child: What do you want to explore? What are you curious about? What are you passionate about?
• To your child’s teachers: What skills are you teaching, and how are you assessing them?
• To the school:– What are you doing to improve instruction,
and how do you know it is working?– How well are your graduates prepared for
college and careers, and how do you know?
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“Evidence-driven” Continuous Improvement:Some Questions for Teachers & Administrators To Consider
• What skills are you teaching, and how are you assessing them?
• What is the school doing to systematically improve instruction, and how do you know it’s working? Are you a better teacher than 2 years ago—if so, in what ways, and how do you know?
• How well are your students prepared for college, careers, and citizenship, and how do you know?
• Is your school “adding value?” How do you know?
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Redefining Educational Excellence:Accountability
1. Hold Ourselves Accountable for What Matters Most
• Use The College and Work Readiness Assessment to assess analytic reasoning, critical thinking, problem-solving, and writing (www.cae.org)
• Videotape focus groups with recent grads & survey students (High School Survey of Student Engagement) http://ceep.indiana.edu/hssse/index.htm
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Redefining Educational Excellence:Academics
2. Doing the New Work: teaching & assessing the skills that matter most
• Develop strategies for teaching & assessing the 3 C’s: Critical/Creative Thinking, Communication, and Collaboration—in every class and at all grade levels
• Pilot interdisciplinary courses around essential questions and capstone projects for 5th, 8th, and 12th projects.
• Require all students to have digital portfolios, work internships, and service learning projects
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Redefining Educational Excellence:Collaboration & Transparency
3. Doing the New Work in New Ways“Isolation is the enemy of improvement”
• Every teacher on teams for collaborative inquiry—looking at student & peer work
• Transparency in information exchange• Videotape teaching & supervision (lesson
study vs. evaluation)• Peer-reviewed digital portfolios for teachers
& leaders
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And More Still . . .