This document discusses bringing innovation into schools. It outlines a process that innovators use to frame issues, generate ideas through techniques like metaphors and failure, test and improve ideas through iterative design cycles, and share what is learned. Specific examples are provided of how districts, makerspaces, and programs foster innovation. The document encourages sharing ideas on how to foster innovation in schools through an online document.

1. Inside the New Idea Factory
Suzie Boss

2. “We need to out-innovate, out-
educate, and out-build the rest
of the world…
That’s how we’ll win the future.”
~President Obama
2011 State of the Union

3. #1: Creativity and Innovation
Students demonstrate creative
thinking, construct knowledge,
and develop innovative products
and processes using technology.

5. Let’s reframe
as a problem
statement:
How might we
bring innovation
to school?

6. Let’s use the process that innovators use:
 Frame the issue
 Generate ideas
 Test and improve (iterative design cycles)
 Share

7. Process: Frame the issue
Where do we find innovation?
What do we know about innovators?
What good ideas can we borrow from them?

8. Appreciating Our Innovation Roots

9. Fast Forward: Motor City to Maker City

10. Tinkerers: Mt. Elliott Makerspace

11. Problem Solvers: Studio H

12. Don’t Overlook Social Innovators

13. Flattening of Innovation
Africa: India:
Jua Kali Jugaad

14. Process: Generate Ideas
When happens when your district has a
seed fund for innovation?
Let’s hear from
Pam Moran,
Albemarle County Public
Schools, Virginia

23. How else do innovators generate ideas?
Be opportunistic
Think in metaphors
Take time to mess around
Learn to fail
Look for crossroads

24. Why metaphors? “Call me Trimtab.”
http://challenge.bfi.org

25. Why metaphors? StripeSpotter
http://code.google.com/p/stripespotter

26. More metaphors: “eHarmony for Pets”
www.pixieproject.org

27. Why celebrate failure?

28. Challenge: Learn to Fail Smarter
http://failfaire.org/

29. Process: Test and improve
Henry Ford Learning Institute’s
Foundations of Innovation

30. What emerges from
design thinking
process?
Carry-all for homeless
from HFA: Alameda
School for Art and
Design, San Antonio

31. Final step: Share
Dots in Blue Water, Berne, Indiana
Dots in Blue Water, Berne, Indiana
Dots in Blue Water, Berne, Indiana

32. Final step: Share

33. Let’s crowdsource:
Add to the Google Doc:
How Do We Foster Innovation?
http://tinyurl.com/6oy6agv

34. Let’s connect:
Twitter: @suzieboss
Email: suzieboss@gmail.com