The Leapfrog Principles

Slide 1: The LeapFrog Principles and Outcomes Arthur Harkins John Moravec University of Minnesota College of Education + Human Development

Slide 2: Challenge: Living, learning and working in unpredictable futures

Slide 3: Opportunity: Living, learning and working in creatable futures

Slide 4: LeapFrogging: Bringing preferred futures into a welcoming present

Slide 5: What are the LeapFrog Principles?

Slide 6: Leadership instead of catching up

Slide 7: Developing the liberal skills

Slide 8: Developing new knowledge

Slide 9: Innovatively applying liberal skills and knowledge

Slide 10: Teaming Catching up with the workforce

Slide 11: Leading Teaming Catching up with the workforce

Slide 12: Creative children and youth contributing to communities & workforces

Slide 13: Bonding children, youth and adults

Slide 14: Developing an innovation society

Slide 15: Creating global collaborations

Slide 16: Leading a creative global economy

Slide 17: Do it now via LeapFrog Institutes

Slide 18: Don’t spend new money

Slide 19: Let people vote with their visions

Slide 20: Visions past or visions future? Let individuals and families choose

Slide 21: Acknowledging the pluralism of present reality

Slide 22: Using new technologies ubiquitously, creatively…

Slide 23: …and purposefully

Slide 24: Networked LeapFrog Institutes

Slide 25: Developing parallel schools

Slide 26: Connecting persons, families, work places and communities

Slide 27: Connecting hardware, software, netware, and mindware

Slide 28: Using volunteers

Slide 29: Why compete with traditional education?

Slide 30: Teaching kids to think

Slide 31: Helping kids teach adults how to innovate

Slide 32: …and how to think

Slide 33: Getting a head start on everyone ― including ourselves!

Slide 34: Helping create the 21 Century st 22nd

Slide 35: Now.

Slide 36: Do it here, in Minnesota

Slide 37: Let children and youth help to create a 2nd Minnesota Miracle