Below are my notes from Day 1 of our Northwest Iowa TICL conference…
Tony Vincent, Learning In Hand, @tonyvincent
- Entrepreneurs are curious, creative, and fearless about experimentation – Hal Gregersen
- Showing us a series of ‘life hacks’ to help us think outside the box
- What does innovation mean to you? (using the Post-It Plus app to display audience responses)
- Sometimes innovation means you have to stay within a box and think creatively
- MyScript Calculator and PhotoMath
- Use ‘-teacherspayteachers’ to exclude that site from your Google searches for teaching resources
- Other places to search for resources include Pinterest, Diigo, Slideshare, YouTube, Twitter, etc.
- Eric Schmidt – “the best way we’ve found to foster [innovation] at Google is to create an environment where ideas can collide in new and interesting ways, and the good ones are given resources to grow”
- Plickers is an innovative tool created by an educator
- Limitations can lead to innovations (e.g., using the address app to make our own dictionary / word wall)
- Using Amazon book reviews with 5th grade students
- Inklewriter allows students to make ‘choose your own adventure’ stories
- Obvious to You, Amazing to Others video (Derek Sivers)
Dane Barner, StuCamp, @MrBarnerWCMS
Sustainable Innovation: Creating a Space for Innovation to Happen
- No Box Thinking chat, #nbchat
- Is lack of change just implementation fidelity?
- Me: If you say to a teaching staff that we’re going to try a bunch of stuff and expect most of it to fail, they’ll look at you like you’re crazy
- Dane: Innovation is change with purpose. Innovation is not something that we do, it’s something that happens.
- Adam Bellow: Innovation occurs at the intersection of fear and bravery
- Dane: Innovation requires an innovative mindset, the removal of restrictions, the right people, and failure as an option
- Rachelle Mau: Fossilized mindset = they have concrete in their shoes and they’re buying concrete for others…
- Dane: growth mindset = doing things you haven’t done before, innovative mindset = thinking in ways you haven’t before (and accept them)
- Two core beliefs in schools: just tell me what to do, and there is a right answer (I just have to figure out what it is) – for both student and adult learners
- What does it say about us as educators that we tenaciously hang on to what we know doesn’t work?
- The curse of the three Ss – sports, schedule, and staffing
- How do the people around you affect your ability to be innovative?
- Dane: Dreamers and grounders
- Failure is an event not a destination
- Learning to walk: After falling, have you ever seen a baby say, “That’s it, I’m a crawler!”
Iowa State University FLEx trailer, Pete Evans, @petemevans #ISUFLEx
- I experienced a virtual roller coaster wearing Oculus Rift (very cool!)
- Also present: 3D printer, Little Bits, and more!
