Student Creativity and Innovation in Schools

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Student Creativity and Innovation in Schools

• Ben Smith and Jared Mader
• www.edtechinnovators.com
• Red Lion Area School District
• Thursday, September 24, 2015

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About Us

• Ben Smith
• Physics Teacher
• K-12 Science Coordinator
• Technology Resource Teacher
• Keystone Technology Integrator
• Doctoral Student in Instructional Technology
• STAR Discovery Educator
• ISTE Board of Directors

• Jared Mader
• Director of Technology
• Former Chemistry Teacher
• Technology Staff Development Trainer
• Keystone TechnologyIntegrator
• Masters Student in Instructional Technology
• STAR Discovery Educator
• ISTE Consultant

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Ready or Not . . .The World is Different
Then Now
telecommunications audio tapes video tapes simulations email web projects problem-solving multimedia hypermedia mobile access laptops (11 access) GIS/GPS systems instant messaging wikis / blogs MUVEs cell phones virtual reality
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Our Vision

• All students, teachers, and administrators will
  be able to be creative, communicate, collaborate,
  and problem solve in a productive and ethical
  manner.

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Knowing Content is NOT Enough

• In order to be successful in the 21st Century,
  ALL students must be able to
• Construct new understandings
• Solve problems
• Make decisions
• Communicate and express themselves
• Understand complex issues
• Work collaboratively
• Set goals and work to a timeline
• Make ethical choices

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Pedagogical Foundations

• Curriculum must drive the need for technology
  integration
• Technology is the tool used to facilitate
  student-centered learning
• Degree to which students can utilize technology
  is dependent upon their level of COGNITION.

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Fostering Creativity

• Increasing Complexity of Technology Skills
• Technology choices become autonomous

• Increasing Levels of Cognition
• Curriculum mastery deepens

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National Educational Technology Standards for
Students

1. Creativity and Innovation
2. Communication Collaboration
3. Research Information Fluency
4. Critical Thinking, Problem-Solving,
   Decision-Making
5. Digital Citizenship
6. Technology Operations and Concepts

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From NETS-S
What students should know and be able to do to
learn effectively and live productively in an
increasingly digital world ...

• 1. Creativity and Innovation
• Students demonstrate creative thinking,
  construct knowledge, and develop innovative
  products and processes using technology.
  Students
• apply existing knowledge to generate new ideas,
  products, or processes.
• create original works as a means of personal or
  group expression.
• use models and simulations to explore complex
  systems and issues.
• identify trends and forecast possibilities.

ISTE NETS-S www.iste.org/nets
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Essential Conditions for Creativity and
Innovation to Take Place

• Give students the tools
• Give students the time
• Challenge Them
• Open Ended Assignments
• Be Vague

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How to Increase Creativity

• Have students move through the taxonomy
  appropriate to their abilities.
• As students acquire the skills of using a
  technology.
• It becomes a tool they may choose
• The emphasis of an activity shifts from the
  technology to the cognitive skills students must
  employ
• Becomes invisible as student creativity guides
  the process

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Observing

• Students are passive spectators of technology
• Students view PowerPoint during lecture
• Teacher uses Interactive Whiteboard during
  lecture
• Students view websites on large screen
• Students listen to a podcast

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Incorporating

• Students are leveraging technology to increase
  productivity
• Type papers using Word
• Make graphs with Excel
• Online Searches

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Producing

• Students create a product with a single
  technology
• Students record a podcast
• Students make a movie
• Poster session in PowerPoint

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Exploring

• Students engage in discovery learning prior to
  formal instruction
• Students use online applet to learn about a topic
• Students conduct a lab with probes

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Collaborating

• Students interact with peers, instructors, and
  outside resources
• Students make group contributions in text format
  to a Wiki
• Students work together on a Google Doc
• Web 2.0 Tools mindomo, VoiceThread, etc.
• Student email - Gaggle

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Applying

• Students are guided to combine and integrate
  technologies
• Students use Excel, Probes and Accompanying
  Software, and Photobooth in Notebook to create
  lab report
• Students use PowerPoint to make slides to import
  into iMovie
• Students add movies, MP3s and images into a Wiki

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Creating

• Students are making sound choices about the
  appropriate synthesis of content and technology
  into a final product
• Students are given an assignment and must choose
  the format for communicating information

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Questions

• Email info_at_edtechinnovators.com
• Website www.edtechinnovators.com