1. EDUCATING FOR INNOVATION

2. WORKSHOP SCHEDULE Introductions & Icebreaker1
EdgeMakers Overview & Course Trajectory 2 3
Exploring Creativity
Reflection, Q&A 4

3. ICEBREAKERS (Choose 1) 6 Word Memoir OR 3 of Me Where I’ve been…
Where I am…
Where I’m headed…

4. the new currency of global competitiveness.
INNOVATION IS
the new currency of global competitiveness.

6. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?
CAPACITIES
“all that can contain or hold”

7. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?
Plant grow harvest

8. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?
Plant grow harvest

9. THE EDGEMAKERS LEARNING SYSTEM OF INNOVATION

10. HOW DO WE TEACH INNOVATION
Purpose driven, practiced based lessons
Fully online (LMS compatible) or hybrid experiences
Instructors transform into facilitation coaches (through PD)
Students practice their innovative thinking capacities like they practice math, writing, music
Build a foundation of creativity in order to generate ideas on demand and use the learning experience to amplify ideas and realize value from those ideas.

11. COURSE SPECS Modality: Online, Instructor-led1
Synchronous and Asynchronous 2 3
Hours: 16 weeks; 48 hours total
3 hours/week 4

12. EDGEMAKERS CATALOG OF INNOVATION EXPERIENCE
Essentials of Innovation-–32 lessons (45-60 mins each)
Digital Fluency---exploiting the power of technology to help you become a more powerful innovative thinker. 16 lessons (45-60 mins each)
Sustainability & Innovation---how to apply the innovation capacity to solving problems related to sustainability and sustainable solutions 16 lessons
5 Core Courses—10 lessons of a deeper experience on each of our core capacities
Creativity, Story-Telling, Design, Collaboration, Entrepreneurship
Building out a system for badging and certification

13. WHERE/HOW TO IMPLEMENT
Core Program Offerings
Certifications/Badging
HS Bridge/Pipeline Development
WFD

14. 21st Century Learning System Real World Connections
RECAP
21st Century Learning System
Global Connectivity
Community Activism
Real World Connections

15. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

16. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

17. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

18. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

19. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

20. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

21. WHAT IS
EDGEMAKING?

22. COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Discuss the conceptual landscape of creativity and innovation, as well as their complexities 1

23. COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Use group creativity techniques to develop solutions to organizational and societal problems 2

24. COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Use technology as a fully integrated part of the creative process 3

25. COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Develop a framework for understanding and cultivating your own creativity 4

26. COURSE
OBJECTIVES
Use presentation skills, storytelling, and other techniques to spread ideas 5

27. WHO IS THE
EDGEMAKERS INSTRUCTOR

28. LESSON PLAN STRUCTURE Epic Question Objectives Overview Framing Video
Quotes

29. LESSON PLAN STRUCTURE Epic Question Objectives Overview Framing Video
Quotes
Lesson Activities
Discussions
Questions to
Social Media
Blogging

30. LESSON PLAN STRUCTURE Epic Question Objectives Overview Framing Video
Quotes
Lesson Activities
Discussions
Questions to
Social Media
Blogging
Creative Makes
Inquiry/Curation/Analysis
Journal Prompts
Passion Question

31. CREATIVE ME
THINKING DIFFERENTLY

32. ROUND 1: MONEYMAKERS

33. ROUND 2: THINK LIKE A KINDERGARTENER
Invent a more whimsical use for the object or structure you chose. Come up with many ideas as you can.

34. ROUND 3: DIY DECONSTRUCTION
Imagine you could deconstruct or take apart your everyday object or structure. Think of uses for one of its disassembled parts.

35. ROUND 4: MAKE A SCENE
Take two to three items from your group’s brainstorm lists and imagine what they could do or be if they were together.

36. QUOTE DISCUSSION “Making the simple complicated is commonplace;
making the complicated simple,
awesomely simple, that’s creativity”
– Charles Mingus

37. EDGEMAKERS DIGITAL TOOLBOX
SLIDESHOWS
MOVIES
SCREENCASTS
PHOTO ESSAYS / EDITING
INFOGRAPHICS / DATA VIZ
DRAWING / SKETCH-NOTES
AUDIO
MINDMAP
BLOGS
WEBSITES
CURATION
COLLABORATION

38. CREATIVE ME L7. ”The Creator’s Process”
Make a list of all the mundane activities you do every day…
taking a shower
brushing your teeth
commuting to school or work
a typical work task

39. CREATIVE ME more fun more pleasurable more interesting
L7. ”The Creator’s Process”
• Challenges/goals
• Missions
• Stories
• Fantasy
• Rules
• Surprises
• Competition with self and others
• Rewards/badges
• Leveling up (reaching a higher status through achievement)
• Feedback
• Scoring/points
• Interactivity/creative control
• Socialization/multiplayer options
• Novelty
• Aesthetics
• Humor
Use these to “gamify”
your mundane activity
more fun
more pleasurable
more interesting

40. I have not failed; I have just found
10,000 ways that won’t work
- Thomas Edison

41. ASSESSING CREATIVITY Did the student…
Synthesize ideas in original and surprising ways?
Ask new questions to build upon an idea?
Brainstorm multiple ideas and solutions to problems?
Communicate ideas in new and innovative ways?

42. - what is your personal challenge or action plan
- something that surprised you or
you learned about today
- a lingering question
- what is your personal challenge or action plan

43. Questions? Next Steps...