Innovation in education represents the creative and purposeful application of new ideas, approaches, technologies, and methodologies to transform and enhance the teaching and learning experience. It involves the exploration and implementation of all the things one can do to foster a positive and harmonious atmosphere, collaboration and support hold a special place.
You are already innovative by…
researching what is best for a student
asking for suggestions to help
trying out new technologies
asking for help from your students
Innovation Content:
Innovation Books
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The Best Class You Never Taught
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Social LEADia
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The Innovator's Mindset
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Empower
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Makerspaces in School
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Ditch that Textbook
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Code Breaker
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Who Owns the Learning?
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Empowered Schools, Empowered Students
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Innovation Podcasts
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Digital Learning Podcast
All about Blended Learning with Holly Clark and Matt Miller.
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Ditch That Textbook Podcast
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Innovation Podcasts
Building Thinking Classrooms:
Based on Peter Liljedahl’s Book and research “Building Thinking Classrooms” is about 14 practices to create an enhanced learning model in your classroom. Check out BuildingThinkingClassrooms.com.
“I’ve used it in my math class and it was so great to see the students building their own knowledge!”-Amy Bowker
Experiential Learning:
“The Relevant Classroom” by Eric Hardie discusses Experiential Learning by tapping into students' capacities for creativity, collaboration, and innovation that can create learning experiences that are truly meaningful for students.
It is done by making meaning central to student work, contextualize the curriculum, create space to learn, connect student work to the community, follow the (student) leaders and re-envision feedback and evaluation.
Modern Classroom Project:
Modern Classroom Project is an instructional model that blends of Blended Instruction, Self Paced Structure, and Mastery Based Learning to meet respond to every student’s needs. They have free training and classroom exemplars for you to check out.
Inquiry Learning:
Inquiry learning is asking your group of learners what they are curious about, and what questions they have in general or about a specific subject. Based on their answers you can plan your unit, or work with your learners to learn together.
Some great resources to check out is Trevor Mackenzie’s books:
Innovative Practices
Also connect with Jessica Vance on Instagram. She is also a Inquiry Expert and she has the best posts about Learning Walls.
Sketchnoting:
New Technologies
AI
Advancing education with AI by Google for Education
Jessica Reid has blown up on Tiktok by sharing tons of AI Tools
Canva
Canva is a free-to-use online graphic design tool. Use it to create social media posts, presentations, posters, videos, logos and more. Be warned! It’s Addictive!
Design School has thousands of tutorials from how to begin to creating presentations, websites and videos.
Minecraft for EDU
Minecraft for Education engage students in game-based learning across the curriculum. It inspires creativity, inclusive learning through play.
Minecraft has lessons for every subject. Go to Minecraft Education Resources and browse through their incredible lessons.
When your mind is blown, download the right version of Minecraft EDU for your device and your students.
Click on the lesson you want on the website and click share or assign. You can paste the link in Google Classroom or any LMS.
Go through the lesson before you jump into the world with your students. Let them know what they are trying to do.
Ask your students who have played Minecraft before and they will become the experts. Ask them for help. The first time will be tricky, but it is so worth sticking with it.
Podcasting
Blogging
Student Led Conferences/Portfolios
Free Courses for Innovation
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Radically change your work and business model
Apply the Reframing methodology to Business Innovation
Design Innovation Experiments
Disrupt your sector
Explore innovative team collaboration techniques
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Why innovation is so hard and fails so often
Understand, what Collaboration is and why it plays an important role in innovation
9 working principles to make everyone more successful
A simple way of collaborating better
Overview on Innovation Frameworks
Creativity Exercise
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How to brainstorm lesson plans that integrate learner interests and needs
How to personalize and customize examples, games, assessments, and other educational materials for individual students
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