Stepping into the Innovation ZoneMICH · 2015-07-09 · Stepping(into(the(Innovation(Zone...
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Stepping into the Innovation Zone
Ray McNulty, Senior Fellow, International Center for Leadership in Education and Dean of the School of Education
Southern New Hampshire University
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Gartner Group Hype Cycle
MOOCHype Cycle
What is Innovation?
• Something fresh (new, original or improved) that creates value.
Yet some of the best thinkers miss out on the concept of innovation all
together.
I think there is a world market for maybe five
computers.
Thomas WatsonChairman IBM, 1946
Western Union Memo 1876
The telephone has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered as a means of communication. The device is inherently of no value to us.
Ken Olsen, Founder Digital Equipment Company
1977
There is no reason why anyone would want a computer in their home.
Why ???
•They are so successful with what they are doing they can’t see the next curve or wave of change coming.
ICE
The Big Mistake•They define themselves by what they do, rather than what they “provide”.
•You limit your ability to innovate if you define yourself by what you do.
So What do we do?
How do we define ourselves?
COREOptimizing existing systems
TRANSFORMATIONAL
ADJACENTExpanding from existing to new ways of working
Developing breakthroughs and inventing things that do not exist right now
TRADITIONALLY SUCCESSFUL LEARNERS TO MOST DISTANT LEARNERS
TRADITIONAL SYSTEM TO INNOVATIVE SYSTEM TO TRANSFORMATIVE SYSTEM
Best Practices
Next Practices
Expertise (“the way we do things around here”) can be a road block to
problem solving and to the development of Next Practices.
Why is it so hard to change?• The more successful a system is, the
more difficult it is to recognize when it must change. By example, market leaders are the last ones to transform.
• The American Education System, “The market leader during the industrial era!”
Market Leader Thinking• Dominant logic: “That’s the way we do
things here.”
VII
Shown below is the Roman numeral seven. By adding only a single line, turn it into an eight.
IX
• Shown below is a Roman numeral nine. By adding only a single line, turn it into a six.
SIX
IX6
Mental Locks• We don’t need to be creative for most of
what we do (driving, shopping, business of living). So staying on routine thought paths enables us to do many things without having to think about it.
• Our training as educators has taught us that there is one right answer.
• The Right Answer
Five beautiful and well-dressed woman are standing in a tight group. One is crying and she has never been happier. The other four are smiling and they have never been more disappointed. Why?
The Second Right Answer• What is the answer? • What are the answers?
• The Right Answer
• That’s not logical
• SOFT • HARD
• Logic• Metaphor• Dream• Reason• Precision• Humor• Consistency• Ambiguity• Play• Work• Exact• Approximate
• Direct• Focused• Fantasy• Reality• Paradox• Diffuse• Analysis• Hunch• Generalization• Specifics• Child• Adult
• SOFT• Metaphor• Dream• Humor• Ambiguity• Play• Approximate• Fantasy• Paradox• Diffuse• Hunch• Generalization• Child
• HARD• Logic• Reason• Precision• Consistency• Work• Exact• Reality• Direct• Focused• Analysis• Specific• Adult
• SOFT
• Shades of gray• Hard to pick up• Many answers• Flood light,
diffused
• HARD
• Black and white• Easy to pick up• Right answer• Focused like a spot
light
Cat - Refrigerator
The Challenge• Build the tallest free standing structure with the marshmallow at the highest point.
• You have 20 sticks of spaghetti, one yard of tape, one yard of string and a marshmallow
• Teams of 4• 18 minutes• Use as much or as little of the supplies as you like.
The skill set for doing this is called…
We all work hard in education to efficiently deliver the next thing that should be done to help our students learn.
Delivery Skills
• Analyzing• Planning• Detailed Implementing• Disciplined Executing
The transformative person incorporates skills from a far different dimension.
• Why accept the status quo?
• Look for new and better ways!
Delivery Skills
• Analyzing• Planning• Detailed Oriented Implementing
• Disciplined Executing
Discovery Skills
• Questioning• Observing• Networking• Experimenting• Associational Thinking
Question Storming
• What is…• What caused….• Why… Why not….• What if…
Why do we breakup content into disciplines and structure learning
that way?
Forget, Unlearn, Dismantle• This is the first step in innovation.• We need to let go of the old, in order to make way for the new.
•More Importantly, we need to let go of the old concepts that have been guiding us in the past.
Examples..
• The world is flat• Smoking is not bad for us• Telephones need cords
What does this tell us?• We may not be right all the time.• Times change• What was right, appropriate, common knowledge, politically correct at one time may not be so anymore.
Now focus on education and learning. Forget Unlearn Dismantle
• IQ determines ability to learn
• Cursive is essential
Stupid Rules• If you could kill or change all the stupid rules that get in the way of better serving our students, what would those rules be?
• Make a list of those stupid rules in your group.
Stupid Rules• If you could kill or change all the stupid rules that get in the way of better serving our students, what would those rules be?
• Now as a group come up with your Top Two Stupid Rules to share……
If you are to innovate you must define yourself by:“What You provide”
Danger Zones• Prioritizing…. Think about combining best features
• Tactical vs. Conceptual…. Don’t worry about going off course
• Group Think….Brilliant ideas are notalways created by groups or consensus.
Activity # 2
What kind of education is needed at this moment of history?
Take 10 minutes of fanciful thinking on your own. _____________________________
Now take another 15 minutes and come up with a group design/theory/idea for Education Next to share.
Reporting Out
Don’t tell me there is something that educators
can’t accomplish in the field of education.
WE need to become the AGENTS
of change.
Thank You
Knowing with certainty that someone has mastered a discipline means it shouldn’t matter how the person got there or what school they attended. At that point, traditional education’s monopoly on delivery would end and America would see a myriad of new models and providers of education.
Kwela Sabine Hermanns,“The Great Shift:Moving from Inputs to Outputs”
First practice must change, then results,
then policy.
System Innovation
Sustaining Innovation
Next Practice
Disruptive Innovation