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Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Michael B. Horn
April 20, 2011
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2. Disruptive Innovation
Handheld
$200
Personal computer
$2,000
Minicomputer
$200,000
Mainframe computer
$2,000,000
Complicated, integrated, expensive
Simple, modular, less expensive
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3. Disruption in business models has been the dominant historical mechanism for making things more affordable and accessible
Yesterday GM
Dept. Stores
Digital Eqpt.
Delta
JP Morgan
Xerox
IBM
Cullinet
AT&T
State universities
Sony DiskMan
Today
Toyota
Wal-Mart
Dell
Southwest Airlines
Fidelity
Canon
Microsoft
Oracle
Cingular
Community colleges
Apple iPod
Now, this isn’t just a technology phenomenon. For-profit, non-profit, governmental – point out 2nd to last one in particular.
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4. Disruption of Toyota
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5. Disruption in business models has been the dominant historical mechanism for making things more affordable and accessible
Yesterday GM
Dept. Stores
Digital Eqpt.
Delta
JP Morgan
Xerox
IBM
Cullinet
AT&T
State universities
Sony DiskMan
Today
Toyota
Wal-Mart
Dell
Southwest Airlines
Fidelity
Canon
Microsoft
Oracle
Cingular
Community colleges
Apple iPod
Tomorrow
Chery
Internet retail
RIM Blackberry
Air taxis
ETFs
Zink
Linux
Salesforce.com
Skype
Online universities
Cell Phones
Now, this isn’t just a technology phenomenon. For-profit, non-profit, governmental – point out 2nd to last one in particular.
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6. Prime examples of non-consumption
Credit recovery
Tutoring
Drop outs
Professional development
AP/advanced courses
Pre-K
Scheduling conflicts
After school
Home-schooled and homebound students
In the home
Incarcerated youth
Small, rural, urban schools
In-school suspension
School bus commute
Unit recovery
Summer school
Disaster preparedness
Teacher absenteeism
35,000 PA students did not graduate from high school in
Despite stimulus that has allowed luxury not to change, it is temporary. A cliff is still coming. Must be strategic about cuts – e.g. summer school
Looming budget cuts and teacher shortages are an opportunity, not a threat
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7. The substitution of one thing for another always follows an S-curve pattern
% new
% old
.001
.0001
.01
0.1
1.0
10.0 09 11 07 05 03 13 15
% new
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8. Online learning gaining adoption
Over 4M K-12 students doing online learning now, according to Ambient Insight
27% of high school students took online course in 2009
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9. We all have different learning needs & goals at different times
Multiple intelligences
Talents
Linguistic, Mathematical, Kinesthetic
“Giftedness” is fluid
Aptitudes
Motivations/interests
Different paces
Learning Styles
Fast, medium, slow
Visual, aural, playful
Ongoing neuroscience research
Depends on subject/domain
Research in practice
fMRI scans
Scientific Learning
CAST/Universal Design for Learning
K12, Inc.
All Kinds of Minds
Renzulli Learning
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10. Multiple Intelligences
Conflicting mandates in the way we must teach vs. The way students must learn
Interdependencies in the teaching infrastructure
Temporal
Lateral
Physical
Hierarchical
Need for customization for differences in how we learn
Learning Styles
Paces of Learning
Multiple Intelligences
Standardization !!
Customization !!
School system is very interdependent, which has led to monolithic, factory-model school system and prevented customization.
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11. Predictably improving
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12. Definition of blended learning
Any time a student learns in part in a supervised brick-and-mortar place away from home
and
At least in part through online delivery, with some element of student control over time, place, path and/or pace =
Blended learning
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13. Blended learning is not…
Where teacher uses electronic white board with online curriculum to lecture
Where student uses online textbooks instead of hardcopy ones
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14. 6 models of blended learning
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15. Model #1: Face-to-Face Driver
Constructivist curriculum. Value f2f discussion and “reflection.” But Aleks for “drill and kill” math, and Rosetta Stone for all.
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Model #2: Rotation
Online Learning
Grades 6-12; 273 students. E2020 plus Acuity. #1 in Yuma County for all but a few subjects and grade levels. Only 6 teachers (math, language arts, science, P.E., social studies and electives). OTHER EXAMPLES: Rocketship, Hoosier Academy
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Model #3: Flex
John Murray (Plato), 4-hour blocks, 5 days a week, 3500 enrollees for District pays a daily rate based on ADA less percentage for district overhead. Avg. is $42 a day graduates so far, 35% go on to college % gain in 10 months. EXAMPLES: SF Flex, USC Hybrid High School
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Model #4: Online Lab
school year, Miami Dade faced nearly 7,000 students needing over 9,000 half credit courses to stay on track for on-time graduation, with no teachers or classrooms available to them. EXAMPLES: Metro Nashville Public Schools, Riverside Virtual School, Alabama
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Model #5: Self-Blend
Your students are doing this on their own
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Model #6: Online Driver
Grades ,500 per semester. Opened spring am-10pm. Must maintain at least C to be remote. Jewelry making, other electives on site. 70% v. 50% retention rate. Pay teachers by class ($190/semester/class/student) instead of minimum $5,000 per class charge.
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21. Predictably improving
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22. Practical implications
Not beholden by the old metrics
Seat time Competency-based
Geographic boundaries
Teacher certifications
In general, move beyond focus on inputs/processes
Self-sustaining funding
Autonomous
Human resources pipeline & PD
Broadband/wireless infrastructure
Portal/Based on usage and what works
Treatment and use of data
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23. Twitter: @innosightinstit
Disrupting Class: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns
Michael B. Horn
April 20, 2011
© Innosight Institute