Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12)educatorscollaborative.com/PDF/Session-J-2-EdTech-Innovation.pdf · Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12) Gabriel Lucas, Castilleja

Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12)

Gabriel Lucas, Castilleja School (Palo Alto, CA)Kelsey Vroomunn, Urban School (San Francisco, CA)

Castilleja: All-girls, Day, grades 6-12Urban: Co-ed, Day, grades 9-12

Sunday, February 9, 2014

Innovation is everywhere


Meet your neighbor

What’s your favorite EdTech innovation?


Overheard at OESIS

• The process matters, not the product (Ray Ravaglia, Stanford University)

• Iterate / explore / try (Patricia and Aileen, Sage Hill School)

• Instructional designers need educators (Howard Lurie, CS4ED)

• Need to step out of our comfort zone (Jeff Bradley, OESIS)

• Spin-off and insulate innovation pilots (Amanda Parashar, Kohelet High)


First half: Gabe

• Learning from failure: one educator’s EdTech innovation story

• A few “externally-driven” initiatives

• A few “educator-driven” initiatives (with six recommendations)

• Open discussion

http://www.flickr.com/photos/rkramer62/5811096333/




Learning from failure: one educator’s EdTech innovation story





Gabe at SF State

• Taught two classes meeting 50 min/period, 3 periods/week

• No wife, no kids, no mortgage, no money

• Plenty of space and computers

• No collaboration requirements

• No management oversight

• Masters thesis research

• Plenty of free time

• No formal review


Gabe at SF State

• Taught two classes meeting 50 min/period, 3 periods/week

• No wife, no kids, no mortgage, no money

• Plenty of space and computers

• No collaboration requirements

• No management oversight

• Masters thesis research

• Plenty of free time

• No formal review

Dislike sales

No marketing

UI not intuitive

Built only for me

Too many features

Charged $$ upfront

Didn’t generate user base

More interested in teaching

Lacked a development partner


Educator’s dilemma

As the years go by

My involvement in

K-12 education

Time to innovate and be entrepreneurial

Thirst fo

r specialized EdTech to

ols


A few externally-driven initiatives


Imagine K12: Seed funding for EdTech start ups


Imagine K12 companies


Imagine K12 companies


EdSurge


EdSurge


EdSurge

build (or contribute to design process)


NewSchools Venture Fund: Education Investment










Silicon Valley Education Foundation


TeacherSquare: Building EdTech communities


“Fabrication EdTech” innovation


4.0 Schools


A few “educator-driven” initiatives(with six words of wisdom from Gabe)


Goal: Bring educators and “external” EdTech enthusiasts together

Inspiration: Could schools play a more active role in the EdTech development cycle?

1. Start the dialogue


Who came


How might we questions

1a. …make EdTech more student-‐driven? 1b. …enable educators to design their own EdTech solutions?

2a. …improve access to EdTech tools? 2b. …capture data from EdTech tools to make more informed decisions?

3a. …support schools' use of EdTech in ways that are transformative? 3b. …improve the selection process of emerging EdTech tools?

4a. …give students and teachers more opportunities to participate in the EdTech innovation cycle?4b. …re-‐imagine EdTech as a fabrication-‐oriented opportunity (much like the maker movement)?

5a. …re-‐imagine the school day, to support innovation, as well as online and blended learning?5b. …enable EdTech entrepreneurs to observe & interact with students and teachers?

6a …create a thriving community of EdTech enthusiasts ?6b. …improve the student learning experience through the use of emerging EdTech tools?



2. Support teacher-driven entrepreneurialism

Chicago teacher founded, Imagine K12 funded--while still working at a school


3. Think big and seek grants!


4. Students!


Club Academia


5. Tinker with building-block tools



Overheard at OESIS

• The process matters, not the product (Ray Ravaglia, Stanford University)

• Iterate / explore / try (Patricia and Aileen, Sage Hill School)

• Instructional designers need educators (Howard Lurie, CS4ED)

• Need to step out of our comfort zone (Jeff Bradley, OESIS)

• Spin-off and insulate innovation pilots (Amanda Parashar, Kohelet High)

6. Take these ideas to heart



Partnership for 21st Century Assessment



LMS



LMShttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railroad_switch

Opportunities and challenges

Differentiation

Rich PD experience

Walk the walk

Fundraising

Multi-constituency

Learn by doing

Solve actual problems

World --> School

Take ownership

Student engagement

Time

Space

Money

Expertise

Bandwidth

Paradigm shift

Seems daunting

Is this our mission?

Required content

Financial models


“Thinking big” examples

• Google’s 80/20 rule

• Hacker-in-residence

• EdTech maker lab

• KickstarterEDU

• Flipped EdSurge events

• Innovation consortiums

• More Club Academias


Open discussion


ED TECH INNOVATION

KELSEY VROOMUNN

designing faculty challenges for

Director of Ed Tech, Urban School of SF@KelseyVroomunn [email protected]


ED TECH CHALLENGE?PDWhat is an

img src= victorialabalme.com



Confucius:

“I hear and I....

I see and I...

I do and I...img src= victorialabalme.com



Confucius:

“I hear and I....

I see and I...

I do and I...

Forget




Confucius:

“I hear and I....

I see and I...

I do and I...

Forget

Remember




Confucius:

“I hear and I....

I see and I...

I do and I...

Forget

Remember

Understand.”img src= victorialabalme.com


ED TECH CHALLENGE?PD

Ed Tech Chef ISTE 2013 (and 2014)

What is an

Confucius:

“I hear and I....

I see and I...

I do and I...

Forget

Remember

Understand.”img src= victorialabalme.com


On Your Tables...


On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card


On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card• If you don’t like your challenge, move!

•Making, Blended Learning, Girls & STEM, Mobile Learning, PD


On Your Tables...BAM!! A Challenge Card• If you don’t like your challenge, move!

•Making, Blended Learning, Girls & STEM, Mobile Learning, PD

Blended real world application: Compile resources in an open wiki, allowing group members to

contribute their own finds and to keep a record of activity.

Not a one day event! Give time for groups to consult resources before F2F discussions.


On Your Tables...


On Your Tables...STOP!! 3 Constraint Cards


•Either flip them over one by one to add additional difficulty or...

•Instant gratification by considering all 3 constraints at once



•Either flip them over one by one to add additional difficulty or...

•Instant gratification by considering all 3 constraints at once


Real world application: Think about and ask others what they perceive to be constraints at your campus. Great way to introduce the empathy piece of Design Thinking.


image credit: dschool.standford.edu

How might we...


image credit: dschool.standford.edu

How might we...

Real world application: Prototype the ideas that come out of your session!

Editable .PSD cards on my website chimeraeducation.weebly.com


Documents

Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12)educatorscollaborative.com/PDF/Session-J-2-EdTech-Innovation.pdf · Increasing EdTech Innovation In Schools (K-12) Gabriel Lucas, Castilleja