How do curriculum ideologies, standards, laws, and testing impact innovation in schools?
How do we forge a path forward?
Dream Big or Go Home!
Identify and expand upon the fundamental ideas that impact schools: kids exploring, teachers teaching, leaders leading.
What needs should be addressed to get moving?
Culture shift, 21st century schools, learner-centered ideology, fluid, agile leadership, instill a sense of exploration and curiosity
Lose "error terror" and the fear to fail.
See Adapt: Why Success Always Starts with Failure.
Key points by Tim Harford
We need to learn how to creatively solve problems in a complex world
He describes the "simple" toaster (with 400 parts including iron, nickel and plastic!) and how a design student set out to replicate it on his own. He may not have succeeded, but his activities certainly were not without learning.
We can solve our complex world problems by finding someone smart to create solutions at the top or have the smart leader hire more smart people who can innovate
We live in a time in which good ideas replace bad ideas-we need to try A LOT of things out, we need to experiment
Trial and error is the most effective problem-solving technique we have in a complex world
Problem is we do not want our institutions to fail or experiment, we do not tolerate failure
Tim's challenge is how can we increase our tolerance to our failure rate? How do we learn from our mistakes. Failure is unavoidable.