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"What insights would you gain if you asked 13 innovators (architects, artists, engineers, scientists, entrepreneurs and a media savvy baker) what they would urge educators and parents to do to best develop the next generation of innovators and creative thinkers?"
Beth Dichter's insight:
This post shares 12 insights from a variety of innovators. What are some of their ideas? (Ideas below quoted from the post) * Realize that Out of School time tends to be more inspiring and powerful ... * Provide unique Experiences that surprise and allow children to see things from new perspectives... * Refining the skill of Asking Questions is the fuel that ignites innovators... The post includes some sharing of how innovators explored in their own unique ways as children. You will also find one short video of an innovator sharing their story as well as a link to eleven videos from the conference Innovators to Educators. This post may bring some fresh ideas to use with students of all ages. 
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Click closer to scan this sketch and you just might learn something new. If anything, you’ll get a peek into the value of what a “graphic facilitator” can provide to a discussion....
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The five essential practices schools must adopt to build the innovators our future demands. What are the five essential practices? * Collaboration (vs Individual Achievement) * Multidisciplinary Learning (vs Learning Specialization) * Trial and Error (vs Risk Avoidance) * Creating (vs Consuming) * Intrinsic (vs Extrinsic) Motivation Tony Wagner has spent the last several years looking at how US schools can educate young people to become innovators, interviewing "scores of highly innovative 20-somethings." Read this article to learn much more.
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Innovative design crosses over all aspects of education. The American Society for Innovation Design in Education, or ASIDE, seeks to infuse curriculum with new approaches to teaching and thinking.
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"I’ve been doing some thinking about how to best define innovation in education. I’ve been reading a lot of mission statements lately for schools and districts and keep finding the word “innovative” used, yet little sign of practices in the objectives, tactics and goals to back this up. The tactics and action plan seem to be oriented towards producing test scores and the practices seem 20th century at best."
Beth Dichter's insight:
Nancy White looks at definitions that businesses use to define innovative and then looks at how education defines innovation. Here is one of her statements: "In education, innovation often results when ideas are applied to satisfy the needs and expectations of the students." Take the time to click through to the post and read her other statements and then ask yourself 'Am I innovative? Is my classroom innovative? My school?" or "What changes need to be made to make my teaching, my classroom or my school innovative?"
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How do you train an innovator? Which schools are doing it better than others? Are teachers equipped with the new skills required to educate students in this decade? This post explores these questions and offers five "essential education and parenting practices that develop young people's capacities to innovate." The first one is "Learning to work collaboratively (innovation is a team sport!)." The concepts of information and knowledge are also explored, beginning with the statement "Information may be free but knowledge also includes understanding, problem solving, communication, and collaboration, none of which is free." Are we addressing these 21st century skills as our students move from elementary school through high school, or our teachers "...compelled to teach to the tests for accountability purposes..."? Additional topics are also explored, including AP testing (and the move to have students "demonstrate that they can apply knowledge learned and not merely regurgitate it" to the fact that many when you look at CEO's of most major companies "the majority did not go to an Ivy League school for undergraduate..." An article that will make you think...
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X-Prize founder and unabashed optimist Peter Diamandis sets out in his new book, Abundance: The Future is Better Than You Think (2012) (co-authored with Steven Kotler) to convince us that the future is so bright we all outta …...
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Race to the Top demands that we prepare learners to be innovative creators. Wouldn't it be fabulous to have this type of training happening in PD and classrooms?