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Positive Deviancywhy we might love disruptive students

Kevin Campbell-Wright


August 24th, 2004

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Deviancy, Anarchy, Chaos & Me

• Disruptive Innovation• Can disruption be good?• Is disruption needed?• How can we use this?• What does this mean?


Positive Deviancy

• Health Initiative: “in every community there are certain individuals or groups whose uncommon behaviours and strategies enable them to find better solutions to problems than their peers, while having access to the same resources and facing similar or worse challenges”Positivedeviancy.org

• Bottom Up Approaches• Encouraging challenge• Crowd-sourcing ideas• Encouraging risks• Making the exception the norm


Positive Deviancy

• Healthcare• Community Development• Business Development• Personal Development• Local Government• ….education?• Steve Wheeler (@timbuckteeth)


Steve Wheeler’s Blog

• Questions• Sugata Mitra (Hole in the Wall) (SOLE)• Maurice Holt (Slow School)• Collective Action


Positive Deviancy

• Collective Action• Sir Ken Robinson• Vanguard Method / Systems Thinking / Lean

CheckPurpose: What is the purpose of this system?Demand: What is the nature of customer demand?Capability: What is it predictably achieving?Flow: How does the work work?System Conditions: Why does the system behave this way?PlanWhat needs changing to improve performance?What action could be taken and what would we predict would be the consequences?Against what measures should action be taken (to ensure we learn)?DoTake the planned action and monitor the consequences versus purpose.


Positive Deviancy

• Organisational / Management based• Learner / Student Voice based• Teaching & Learning based


Positive Deviancy & Technology

• Social Media• Mobile Devices• Technology as a space enabler• “All the answers are on the web” Wheeler & Mitra


Positive Deviancy - Ideas

• “All the answers are on the web” Wheeler & Mitra

• Student Voice• Distance Learning• Self-Directed learning• Collaborative learning (streamlining etc)


Positive Deviancy – a reality?

• Collective Action through social media• Flashmobs• Subversive Advertising• Collaborative Programmes• Crowdsourcing• Civil Disobedience• I Love Bees (told by Charles Leadbeater)


I Love Bees

• Advert for Halo 2• Beekeeper recipes replaced with GPS co-

ordinates & time of day• Debates started, clues were fed to players• 261 Payphones – 1000s turned up, were asked a

question, played a snippet. They ordered them by the end of the day.

• 1,000s of phones, five words each. Never failed.


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