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Innovation in the US Education System: A Model for China?
A presentation by
Patrick SciarrattaExecutive Director, Friendship Ambassadors
FoundationAffiliation: Fairleigh Dickinson University
Editor, NGO Reporter, United Nations Department of Public Information
Innovation
•How is it defined in US Education?•Practical Examples?•Are there standards, and if so …•What are examples of successful
innovation?•Provide some Chinese and US Perspective
▫(See charts to follow)
Everybody Stretch!
In a circle, every mind is equally valued
Disagreement about the skills children will need to drive innovation
Economy’s Downturn? Innovation is still the key to success
% of Americans and Chinese who believe that Innovation will be more important to the U.S.
economyin the next three decades than it was in the last
three …
Americans and Chinese differ on where the next big thing will come from
Disruption!!!!!!
•The Strange Bowl of Warm Milk
•The DELTA Project
•Reversing Paradigms – The Apple Macintosh
•With Innovation Must Come: Performance Management
BASKETBALL
Stanford University
•The Stanford approach provides an intensive hands-on experience using problem-based learning and Radical Collaboration
•Everyone Plays: •Students and faculty work on teams on
projects that simulate …•The kinds of problems and impossible
tasks we all face every day.
Radical Collaboration - NOW
• It begins before the student enters the campus
• It includes Linked In, Facebook and other social networking tools, also Case Studies
•Webinars, blogs, Twitter
•One on One online work with senior faculty
•Use of Stanford’s vast social network after
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education
“In the classroom, innovation means engaging your students in fundamentally different ways, finding ways to identify their passion, and to help them accelerate the pace of learning.”
Final Thoughts for Educators•Include Innovation in your thinking
•Remember: it is meaningful to young minds
•Work with the national government to create a foundation dedicated to innovation
•Work with nonstate actors within civil society on innovative projects that bring education into the work place -toward
global development
Innovators Mentioned In This TalkNorth Carolina State University • The Friday Institute for Educational
Innovationhttp://gismo.fi.ncsu.edu • http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/delta-project/
John Kao, Innovation Expert and Author, Innovation Nation - www.johnkao.com
Apple Macintosh – www.apple.com
Stanford University - www.stanford.edu
Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education - http://www.ed.gov/
Babson Executive Education - http://www3.babson.edu/
Patrick Sciarratta, Friendship Ambassadors Foundation www.faf.org