Innovation Workshop

From OER Commons Wiki

Date/Time: Tuesday, March 23rd, 10am - 2pm

Location: Cypress Meadows, Moss Beach

• Photos from the workshop on flickr: Teacher Innovation Workshop

Schedule:

Part I:

• Introductions & Goals and Expectations
  • ISKME
  • OER Commons
  • Research Studies, Findings, and Next Steps
  • STEAM and Sun Curve Challenge Presentation

• Yes, And Improv Activity: Vacations

• Tell a story about an example of your teaching around social entrepreneurship that inspired you in groups of 3

• Green Design Challenge Activity: Design a pilot program for a social entrepreneurship project focusing on green design that meets the following design principles:
  • The design must meet a need for their school community
  • The design must use collaboration between teacher, student, and community.
  • The design must use sustainable processes and business practices.

Outcomes: Support student creativity and meet the learning standards of the school.

• Using the research from Tell a story, brainstorm the five components that are essential to your projects.

• Review the Design Process: Identify Challenge, Research and Brainstorming, Prototyping

• Group Presentations

• Lunch

Part II:

• Create/Remix/Share OER on wiki

• Reflections: What part does OER play in entrepreneurship?
  • My organization creates a lot of content and would like to share. Add and pull from content on OER Commons.
  • Get curriculum to six different schools and have them collaborate online.

• Motivations:
  • Once you start getting involved in collaboration you don't want to let go. To find people with the same values in one place in great.
  • Teachers find resources and want to add.
  • Take time to learn then use it in their teaching processes with their students.
  • The teachers participating in this are pioneers. Once this gets more moving it will expand to other areas, policy makers, business practices.
  • Emerging technology.

• Next Steps, Future collaborations
  • Wiki conversation to continue the collaboration. Henry's Design Challenge. Let's stay connected.
  • ISKME and Danish teachers share the same goals. Sharing experiences was nice.