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Innovation Proposal & Planning Tips

Dwayne Harapnuik — April 13, 2020 — Leave a comment

Change Starts With You

Moving your organization forward or encouraging your colleagues to join you in implementing innovation or change is an ongoing and challenging process that includes multiple steps and continued effort. Most innovation initiatives start with a proposal.

Your innovation proposal should focus on your specific audience who may include, but may not be limited to, the administrators who will be affirming the completed innovation plan, your colleagues or peers you are hoping will be inspired to join you, and/or other stakeholders who have an interest in how the innovation will impact your learners.

Ideally, your innovation proposal should take the form of a 1-page letter because it will become part of your overall plan that you will be sharing with your audience.

The innovation proposal should address the “Why” or purpose of your innovation initiative which is expanded on with the following 5 key points:

Opportunity or problem that you have observed – always focus on the opportunity perspective rather than the problem.
How you will address the opportunity or solve the problem.
What you are proposing to do (1.2. adopt a Blended Learning initiative…).
Benefits of this solution (summary of your why).
What are you asking for? (I am asking to pilot blended learning in my classroom… over what time frame)

Be prepared to revise and update as your ideas develop and your situation changes.

Letter Format Examples

Document Format Example – Depending on your audience and their expectations more detailed documentation may be required and the following example followed the format that was required by these student’s district. Remember, this proposal must be developed for your intended audience.

http://www.patricknreid.com/2016/09/05/ipad-educational-opportunities/

Innovation Proposal Planning Tips

Begin with the end in mind, 100k view, learning outcomes, be clear about your purpose
Understand that the proposal will change based on situations, personnel, circumstances
Be flexible, adaptable, and patient, rest assured that things will not go as planned
Collaborate with others–get others on board with your ideas, key influencers
Start with a pilot/trial/focus group, don’t extend too far too fast
Plan forward, but do not map every step; fail forward opportunities are automatically built into innovation planning
Consider how you will measure success; what will be happening and what will others be doing

Completed Innovation Plan – Looking Ahead

Your innovation plan will include the following

Media Pitch – 2 minutes or less, capturing your project and Audience
Innovation Proposal Letter to District/Principal/School Board/Administration/Management
Literature review support
Implementation Outline, plan ahead for next steps over the next 12-24 months
Innovation Plan – your final post that narrates and summarizes your plan and includes links to all the above

Examples of how the innovation proposal will fit into the final innovation plan:

Revised October 2021

In Learning Change, Innovation, innovation plan, proposal

EDLD 5305 Innovation Planning Perspectives & Tips

Dwayne Harapnuik — November 16, 2017

How to Succeed in the DLL
If you haven’t already reviewed this page and the related links you owe it to yourself to spend the 30 minutes that it will take to see how to really do well in the DLL.

Collaboration

The key to improving student achievement – Hattie argues examining, thinking and talking with other teachers about the learning environments that we have created and are creating and the impact that we can have on learners is the most important thing we can do to improve our learner’s achievement.

Who Do You Trust Enough to Learn From? – The evidence is clear; if you want to learn more effectively online you need to collaborate with your classmates.

Learner’s Mindset

Why Authentic Learning Converts Into Lifelong Learning – We need to allow our learners to choose and work on authentic projects that will inspire their intrinsic passions for learning and help them grow their learner’s mindset.

In pursuit of the better way – the learner’s mindset – Perhaps, if we focused on nurturing and supporting our learner’s natural inquisitiveness and predisposition toward learning we would be much further ahead and wouldn’t then have to attempt to restore or rebuild what we have torn down in the first place.

Innovation Planning

How to Avoid EdTech Quickfix Traps – If you are considering a 1 to 1 initiative or using a software system for drilling in Math or Language/English then I want you to recognize that these are only a small part of a bigger picture and you need to shift your focus from technology to learning. Something along the lines of blended learning or project-based learning would be a very logical focus where these technologies would be used effectively.

Innovation Proposal & Planning Tips – An overview of who you should focus on, what should go into your innovation proposal, and how to pull all your planning pieces together.

Examples mentioned in video
Brooke Josephs
https://bjosephs6.wixsite.com/teachingincolor/project07

Mike Yakubovsky
https://stemtoolkit.weebly.com/project-proposal.html

Kaman Hung
http://www.professorhung.com/innovation-proposal/

Carl Mohn
https://carlmohn.wordpress.com/2017/09/24/innovation-is-the-key/

Caleigh Heenan
https://onedisruptiveeducator.com/innovation-plan/

More 5305 Proposal Examples https://www.harapnuik.org/?page_id=6556

Are You Bolting a Jet Engine onto Your Horse Cart? – If you really want to get the most out of any learning opportunity you have to fight through the cognitive dissonance and experiment with the new ideas and processes to see if they really can make a difference.

Do You Care Enough to Let Them Take Ownership of Their Learning? – When we let our learners take control of their learning the experiences they can embrace, the meaningful connections they create, and the knowledge that they gain will be life-changing.

Literature Review – What does the Data Say

To Get the Real Story You Need to Go to Primary Sources – Because we live in an age when so much information is available we must not only be prepared but be willing to take the time that it takes to critically and analytically assess all the information we are taking in.

What are you learning today? – We need to continually ask – what are you learning today? This question leads to the next most important question – What do you want to learn next?

Case Studies

Why Good Ideas Too Often Go Bad – Useful ideas like Project-Based learning, 1 to 1, and blended learning can all too easily lose their benefit when we shift the focus from learning and just do projects, just focus on the devices, and just focus on the content delivery part of the blended learning.

The Gift of Intrinsic Motivation – Letting your learner experience the consequences of their actions (as long as they aren’t life-threatening) will be much more valuable to them in the long run than your intervening.

Opening Up Spaces for Answers – Why we run EDLD 5305 the course on innovation planning before we run EDLD 5313, the course on creating significant learning environments

Computers in Schools – Not Working…Yet – If focusing on the technology doesn’t improve learning then what does? the research is overwhelming…Focusing on the learning first then finding ways to enhance that experience with technology will improve learning.

My Video & Media Tools

How to Use The Power of Video – Make sure your videos are targeting the hearts before you target the minds of your audience.

Dwayne’s DIY Video Creation Toolbox & My Video & Media Tools – Video examples, the tools, and resources I used to create, edit and publish those videos and the full list of hardware, software and videos resources that I use on a regular basis to create the videos for your learning environments.

Innovation Plan Google Docs Option

Sample Google Doc used in video

Putting it all together

The Power of Vision – Transformative Scenario Planning
Telling stories about what might happen. Not stories about what will happen, not forecasts; not stories about what should happen; not proposals or visions or positions but stories about what MIGHT happen–relevant, challenging plausible clear stories about what might happen.

Professional Learning Plan – a commitment to a lifelong passion for learning.

Revised on September 15, 2020

The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For

Dwayne Harapnuik — August 8, 2013 — Leave a comment

http://chronicle.com/article/The-Future-Is-Now-15/140479/?cid=wc&utm_source=wc&utm_medium=en

The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

I have been monitoring innovation in education for the past 20 years so I am always looking for new insights so any post, article or story that points to “innovations to watch for” catches my attention. Even before I fully read the article I did a quick look up of the author Steven Mintz to see if he had the credentials or the experience to be offering these types of predictions. He does openly warn he readers he is a “historian and far better at interpreting the past than forecasting the future.” In addition to being a Professor of History, University of Texas at Austin, Mintz is also the Executive Director for the Institute for Transformational Learning in the University of Texas System. Finally, he points to over a decades worth of teaching with technology and walks the talk with a personal website http://stevenmintz.com/ that demonstrates his belief and skill in using technology to enhance learning.

Mintz points to following 15 innovations that he suggests will alter the face of higher education over the next 36 months:

1. e-Advising
2. Evidence-based pedagogy
3. The decline of the lone-eagle teaching approach
4. Optimized class time
5. Easier educational transitions
6. Fewer large lecture classes
7. New frontiers for e-learning
8. Personalized adaptive learning
9. Increased competency-based and prior-learning credits
10. Data-driven instruction
11. Aggressive pursuit of new revenue
12. Online and low-residency degrees at flagships
13. More certificates and badges
14. Free and open textbooks
15. Public-private partnerships

Despite not being an acclaimed expert in educational technology Mintz’s predictions fall in line with the literature and research in this area and more importantly he points to changes in learning as the key disruptive innovation in 8 of his 15 predictions. He sees evidence based pedagogy not only informing instructional design but also personalized adaptive learning. He accurately places the emphasis on student-centred, competency based, well designed and collaborative constructed learning experiences as a major catalyst for change. His remaining predictions point to the disruptors of open educational resources (OER), growth of online learning and the loosening of credentialing through certification and badges and the move toward public-private partnerships.

Mintz sums up his piece with a positive challenge to faculty members to work together and:

take the lead in designing an education that will truly serve the needs of our 21st-century students.

Read the full article…

In Innovation Change, EdTech, future, predictions

The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For

Dwayne Harapnuik — July 23, 2013 — Leave a comment

The Future Is Now: 15 Innovations to Watch For – Commentary – The Chronicle of Higher Education via kwout

I have been monitoring innovation in education for the past 20 years and am always looking for new insights so any post, article or story that points to “innovations to watch for” catches my attention. Even before I fully read the article I did a quick look up of the author Steven Mintz to see if he had the credentials or the experience to be offering these types of predictions. He does openly warn he readers he is a

“historian and far better at interpreting the past than forecasting the future.”

In addition to being a Professor of History at the University of Texas at Austin, Mintz is also the Executive Director for the Institute for Transformational Learning in the University of Texas System. Finally, he points to over a decades worth of teaching with technology and walks the talk with a personal website http://stevenmintz.com/ that demonstrates his belief and skill in using technology to enhance learning.

Mintz points to following 15 innovations that he suggests will alter the face of higher education over the next 36 months:

1. e-Advising
2. Evidence-based pedagogy
3. The decline of the lone-eagle teaching approach
4. Optimized class time
5. Easier educational transitions
6. Fewer large lecture classes
7. New frontiers for e-learning
8. Personalized adaptive learning
9. Increased competency-based and prior-learning credits
10. Data-driven instruction
11. Aggressive pursuit of new revenue
12. Online and low-residency degrees at flagships
13. More certificates and badges
14. Free and open textbooks
15. Public-private partnerships

Despite not being an acclaimed expert in educational technology Mintz’s predictions fall in line with the literature and research in this area and more importantly he points to changes in learning as the key disruptive innovation in 8 of his 15 predictions. He sees evidence based pedagogy not only informing instructional design but also personalized adaptive learning. He accurately places the emphasis on student-centred, competency based, well designed and collaborative constructed learning experiences as a major catalyst for change. His remaining predictions point to the disruptors of open educational resources (OER), growth of online learning and the loosening of credentialing through certification and badges and the move toward public-private partnerships.

Mintz sums up his piece with a positive challenge to faculty members to work together and:

take the lead in designing an education that will truly serve the needs of our 21st-century students.

Read the full article…

In Innovation Change, disruptive, Disruptive innovation, future

10 Disruptive Technologies Set to Change the World

Dwayne Harapnuik — May 29, 2013 — Leave a comment

Citi: Disruptive Innovation – Business Insider via kwout

The CITI report points to the following disruptive technologies that are poised to change the way we do business, indulge in our habits, monitor our health and entertain ourselves: