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Opening Keynote: The role of innovation in education

Charles Leadbeater, facilitated by Sarah Porter

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Joint Information Systems Committee

Charlie Leadbeater is a leading authority on innovation and strategy, and he will discuss the role of innovation in education, exploring not only how the web can break down barriers but also how the benefits it promises can be nurtured and sustained

We-think, his latest book, charts the rise of mass, participative approaches to innovation. It is one of several acclaimed books; Living on Thin Air, a guide to living and working in the new economy; Up the Down Escalator, an attack on the culture of public pessimism accompanying globalisation and In Search of Work which was one of the first books to predict the rise of more flexible and networked forms of employment. He has also written extensively and influentially on the case for more personalised, participative approaches to education, most recently a report entitled What’s Next? 21 Ideas for 21st Century Education.

Learning from ExtremesJISC, November 2009

Charles Leadbeater

To warm us up….

Apple accounts for 2% of mobile phone industry sales volume. What

proportion of profits does it account for?

A:5% B:10% C:15% D:20% E:30%

Do you…

Have a profile on a social networking site like Facebook or Linked In?

A:Yes B: No

Do you…

Use Twitter?

A:Yes B: No

Do you…

Use these tools for work?

A:Yes B: No

The question you ask largely determines the answer you get

Your vantage point determines what you can see…

Where would you look to see what education and learning might

become ?

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Mapping education innovation

Improve

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Mapping education innovation

Good people teaching, well trained, well motivated and supported in

the right conditions

Order and calm: hard & soft power

Relationships that build:

CareRecognitionMotivation

Participation

But…Performance plateau Ingrained inequality

Hitting the target, missing the point

Improve is essential but not enough…

Do you agree?

A : Yes B: No

Reform

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Mapping education innovation

Learning with and by not to and from

Personalised learning = learning with and by:

Place,Timing, Pace, Space

Big schools that feel smallSoftware leads hardware

Multiple forms of assessment Teachers as coaches

Pupils as protagonists Problem/question oriented learning

Collaborative and real worldSelf-reflective, motivated learning

Information literate, able communicators

But…

There are lots of obstacles and traps on the journey from improve to

reform

But…

Need to encourage reform from within but also a wave of new kinds

of school created by social entrepreneurs

Should we make it much easier for new kinds of schools to be created?

But…

Even that may not get all you need

Supplement

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Mapping education innovation

Social and emotional conditions

Relationships for learning at through family and home, in community

and work

The white: family and neighbourhood learning

Parents more involved in schoolSupporting learning at home Minimising impact of family

disruption

The plate: environment, culture and economy

Aspiration and ambitionCultural and economic changeSocial contracts around schools

School draws in community resources

School resources available for community

Disperse the school in the community

Learning led cultural change

Challenges…Where do you invest?

What people and skills do you need?Mission drift?

Transform

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Mapping education innovation

Entirely new ways to enable learning

Cloud culture: ubiquitous participation, connection,

collaboration

Radical innovation usually comes from the margins: social

entrepreneurs and the hardest to reach

Pull not push

Motivation is key: extrinsic and intrinsic

Learning through…

Different people, technologies, places for learning

Learning as a productive, making, doing, earning activity

What are the keys to transformational innovation in

learning?

Improve Supplement

Reform Transform

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

The long road to transformation

Improve Supplement

Reform Transform

Formal Informal

Sustaining

Disruptive

Location

Innovation Type

Disruption accelerates systemic innovation

Is this how it looks now ?

Improve

Reform

Alternative

Supplement

Dominant

Not disruptive but marginal

Supportive

Dealing with what the mainstream

cannot cope with

Where should resources go?

Improve

Reform

Alternative

Supplement

Where should resources go?

Improve

Reform

Alternative

Supplement

Where should resources go?

Improve

Reform Alternative

Supplement

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