innovation teaching barcamp russgiles

BARCamp 2012

Innovation – How to Teach it?

Russell Giles – Teacher, Engineer.Shanghai HackerSpace 新车间

Innovation – a definitionWest & Farr (1990) defined innovation as: ‘ … the intentional introduction and application within a role, group or organization of ideas, processes, products or procedures, new to the relevant unit of adoption, designed to significantly benefit the individual, the group, the organization or wider society’ (p. 9)

West M.A., Farr J.L. (1990) Innovation and Creativity at Work:

Psychological and Organizational Strategies. Chichester: Wiley.

What is Innovation?

Executing a new idea to create value.

Figure out how to teach innovation.What do I need to add to a person so they become an innovator?

邓小平 DèngXiǎoPíng

诸葛亮Zhūgě Liàng

Einstein

Question was too simplisitic!

Side-stepped education research and my own experience.

It’s an eco-system not an individual!

– It’s all in the culture!

What if culture is not right?

How do we teach Innovators?

Bronfenbrener’s Environmental Theory

The IB Learner Profile(10 Attributes)

•Inquirer•Knowledgeable•Thinker•Communicator•Principled•Open-Minded•Caring•Risk-taker•Balanced•Reflective

Risk Taker

小心 xiǎoxīn = be careful What does this tell us about the role of

the 'heart' in attitudes?

Describe to your neighbour why the heart character appears in the word for "careful!“

Do you dare?

怕 Pà = fear??我很怕在人前讲话。

Wǒ hěn pà zài rénqián jiǎnghuà.

Minimal organisational consequences for failure

The Individual Innovator 'Skillset' Excellent knowledge of at least one

relevant discipline. A generous team player with mastery

of communication and collaboration skills both face-to-face and thru ICTs.

A strong desire to find better ways of doing things and try them out, even if they are disruptive and frightening.

Organisational Culture

Views the business environment (and the business plan to exploit it) as tentative.

It is part of an ongoing vigorous experiment - each part usable only until a better alternative can be put into place.

Understandings/language are shared and this learning organisation is not very hierarchical when innovating.

Workplaces for Innovation

Googleplex

How do we know it’s real?

What do we ask ourselves: before hiring the interior designers? as a potential employee?

Innovation Audit Tool Kit

Build it and they will Come

Conclusion

Today, I wanted to present some facts about innovation systems and ask some useful questions:

If you want to be a better innovator, what is the best way to learn?

If you're a company wanting to be more innovative and thinking of hiring some innovators, how do you get the best value from them?

ReferencesCentre for Educational Research and Innovation., & Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development. (2008). Innovating to learn, learning to innovate. Paris: OECD.

Commonwealth of Australia. (2010). Empowering change: Fostering innovation in the Australian Public Service. Retrieved from http://www.apsc.gov.au/mac/empoweringchange.pdf

Gardner, H.  (2006)  Five minds for the future / Howard Gardner Harvard Business School Press, Boston, Mass. :

Gibbons, P. (2002) Scaffolding language, scaffolding learning: Teaching second language learners in the mainstream classroom: Heinemann, Portsmouth, NH.

Hanson, M.T., & Birkinshaw, J. (2007) The innovation value chain. Harvard Business Review, June, 121-130.

International Baccalaureate Organization. (2008). Creating Lifelong Learners Cardiff, Wales: Peterson House.

Kastelle, T. (2011) Leading Innovation - Presentations to AITSL.

OECD (2009), "Governance and the Role of Government in the Chinese National Innovation System", in OECD, OECD Reviews of Innovation Policy: China 2008, OECD Publishing.

OECD (2011),OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training: A Learning for Jobs Review of China 2010, OECD Reviews of Vocational Education and Training, OECD Publishing.

Tomlinson, C, & McTighe, J. (2006) Integrating differentiated instruction and understanding by design - Connecting Content and Kids Association for Supervision & Curriculum Development, Alexandria, VA, USA: