Independent project of MITE

1. Understanding Innovation
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By Jacqueline YANG
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2. Outline of session 1
1. What does Innovation mean?
2. Innovative practices in education
3. ICT in educational innovation

3. Innovation?
What does innovation mean?
Share your opinions on your initial
understanding of innovation
Topic:how do you understand “innovation”?
(5 mins)

4. Innovation=invention

5. Innovation=invention
 Innovation refers to the use of a new idea
or method, whereas invention refers more
directly to the creation of the idea or
method itself.

6. One of the greatest
innovators: Steven Jobs
 (5 mins) Links of discussion on his
achievements:
 http://mitesuperstars.blogspot.com/2011/1
0/innovation.html
 http://mitesuperstars.blogspot.com/2011/1
0/what-if-steve-jobs-ran-your-school.html

7. What does Innovation
mean?
Is innovation so hard that only geniuses like
Steven Jobs can make it happen?
(5 mins)

8. Is innovation so hard ?
 Back in the 1950s, a guy approached one of the
large toothpaste manufacturers and said that he
had an innovation which would cost them almost
nothing to implement, but would yield an
immediate 40% increase in business. He offered
to sell them the exclusive rights to the idea for
$100,000. This was a huge sum at the
time, but, given the high volume of toothpaste
sales, it would be recouped rapidly.
 However, the executives of the company were
greedy and would not spend such money if it
could be avoided. They thanked the guy and
said they would get back to him.

9. Is innovation so hard ?
A big meeting of the company’s marketing
and technical staff was called and they
were tasked with proposing ideas for
increasing business by 40% for little cost.
Two weeks later and no useful ideas had
emerged. So, they called back the guy and
said he had got a deal. After the legal
niceties were completed and the money
handed over, he gave them a brown
envelope containing a small slip of paper.
On this slip were the words: “Make the hole
bigger.”

10. What does innovation mean?
Link of Online game:
http://www.smart-kit.com/s888/river-
crossing-puzzle-hard/
Try to work out the strategy
innovatively !
Stop here for 5 mins

11. Tips to the game
1.The key to success is the
dog and the farmer.
2. It is not necessary for two people/animals to
sit in the small two-seater boat, sometimes,
there could only be one person sitting in the
boat .
 Try to find the solution for 10 mins.
 If you could not find the answer, please check it on
the next page.

12. One of the possible solutions
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 Son: S F, Do, S,Da,R2,H1,H2 R1
 Daughter: Da F, Do, S,H1,H2 R1, R2, Da
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 Dog: Do F，Do，H1，H2 Da，S，R1，R2
 Rabbit: R F, Do, S,H1,H2 R1,R2，Da
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 Hamster: H Da, H1，H2，S F，Do，R1,R2
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Do F,H2, S, H1, Da, R1,R2
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13. What does innovation mean?
Summary
 Write down what your have learnt from our
discussion on innovation and define
“innovation” in your own words on the
google doc.

14. What does Innovation mean?
Others’ definition of innovation:
 The introduction of something new/a new
idea, method or device(Merriam Webster)
 “The creation of better or more effective
products, processes, services, technologie
s, or ideas that are accepted by
markets, governments, and society.”
（wiki）
 Reference：http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Innovation

15. Innovative practices in business
http://www.chinasocialinnovation.org/cn/index.php?option=com_content&view=c
ategory&layout=blog&id=20&Itemid=48

16. Where is the destination of
educational innovation?
 Knowledge
 Skills
 Attitude

17. Innovative practices in education
Watch the following video and answer the
questions below on your google doc.(10 mins)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedd
ed&v=2W9z-nrTQD4
 Is it innovative practice in education?
 Where is the destination (expected learning outcome) of
the course?
 Does it make sense to get the destination with introduction
and application of i-pad in music course?
 What benefit does it bring to the participants?
 Are there some limitations or negative influence?

18. Innovative practices in education
You may also have a look at the comments made
by students having taken the module.
http://mitesuperstars.blogspot.com/2011/09/innovati
on-or-just-shiny-gadgets.html

19. Innovative practices in education
Assessment
People
Operational Continuous
Processes innovation loop
Strategic
Processes
Tactical
Processes
Link:
http://blog.thinkforachange.com/page/2.aspx

20. ICT in educational innovation
Technology has become
an indispensable part in
education.
It is a trend that content
Knowledge(CK), pedagogi
cal knowledge(PK) and
technological knowledge
(TK) are combined to
TPACK.
http://www.citejournal.org/vol9/iss1/general/article1.cfm

21. ICT in educational innovation
Disruptive technology
Sustaining technology
Transformative technology

22. Disruptive technology
A technology that helps create a new market
and value network, and eventually goes on
to disrupt an existing market and value
network (over a few years or decades),
displacing an earlier technology there.
Reference：Christensen, Clayton M. (1997), The innovator„s dilemma: when new technologies cause
great firms to fail， Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard Business School Press

23. Sustaining technology
 A sustaining technology does not create
new markets or value networks but rather
only evolves existing ones with better
value.
Reference：Christensen, Clayton M. (1997), The innovator„s dilemma: when new technologies cause
great firms to fail， Boston, Massachusetts, USA: Harvard Business School Press

24. How do the technologies change
the way of teaching and
learning？
Share your opinions on google doc(5
mins)：
 Give some examples of disruptive
technology and sustaining technology
used in education.
 How do the technologies listed change the
way of teaching and learning in your
organization?
 What are the advantages and limitations of
the application of these technologies？

25. Transformative Technology
Transformative technology repositioning the
teacher and changing her role？

26. ICT in Educational Innovation
You may read the free version online:
http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-0-387-
71148-5#section=841806&page=1&locus=0

27. Case studies of IPPUT
http://sitesdatabase.cite.hku.hk/online/index_eng.asp

28. Homework
Choose an example from the case studies of IPPUT and
share your opinions on:
1.Is it an innovative practice?
2. What is the role of technology in the case?
3.Is the technology leveraging changes?
Sustaining or disruptive?
Give an example of innovative practice in education in your
organization and explain:
1.why you consider it innovative
2.its impact on education