Innovation and Creativity

Future employers are seeking dispositions in a ever changing world that will enable graduates to be prepared for a range of scenarios in their futures. These include; independence, collaboration, initiative, creativity and lately, humility.

 This article offers some practical ideas for developing creativity and innovation from a very young age. If anything it is a good start.

Click on the image to take you to the full article.

Whilst this blog post is essentially US based there are some predictions well worth thinking about. Having watched 'Most Likely to Succeed' last week I would also suggest that there are a few more that could be added, particularly for secondary hill.

1. Exam based assessment be a thing of the past - why ask students to perform in isolation without access to information? They will never have to do this again in their lives!

2. Subject integration has to be the norm, where in life to we face an issue to only consider one aspect?

Any others you can think of?

Preparing Children for their Future

This a provocative and entertaining clip that suggests a future outcome for a student taught in a restrictive learning environment. It might be useful to share with teachers or learners about the kind of future that we are preparing our students for.

• What can we do differently?
• How can this be avoided?
• How are we equipping them for a future?

Learning needs to be...

• engaging, personalised, real life, collaborative, relevant, responsive and messy
• connected - subjects don't occur in isolation in real life
• helpful to our students
• changing to meet the needs of a changing world, we can't keep doing it the same way
• flexible

Our students will need to...

• deal with data
• work globally
• self manage
• organise, collaborate, plan, reflect and assess
• learn through real life enquiries
• work with different people; ages, cultures, thinkers
• be digitally responsible

What are we doing to encourage this kind of thinking and learning?

Challenging Practice

Why do you do what you do?

Would you want to be in your class?

How much of your day is having an impact?

How do you use student voice in your learning design?