Innovation in the US Education System: A Model for China?

A presentation byPatrick Sciarratta

Executive Director, Friendship Ambassadors Foundation

Affiliation: Fairleigh Dickinson UniversityEditor, NGO Reporter,

United Nations Department of Public Information

Innovation•How is it defined in US Education?•Practical Examples?•Are there standards, and if so …•What are examples of successful

innovation?•Provide some Chinese and US Perspective

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Everybody Stretch!

In a circle, every mind is equally valued

Disagreement about the skills children will need to drive innovation

Economy’s Downturn? Innovation is still the key to success

% of Americans and Chinese who believe that Innovation will be more important to the U.S.

economyin the next three decades than it was in the last

three …

Americans and Chinese differ on where the next big thing will come from

Disruption!!!!!!•The Strange Bowl of Warm Milk

•The DELTA Project

•Reversing Paradigms – The Apple Macintosh

•With Innovation Must Come: Performance Management

BASKETBALL

Stanford University•The Stanford approach provides an

intensive hands-on experience using problem-based learning and Radical Collaboration

•Everyone Plays: •Students and faculty work on teams on

projects that simulate …•The kinds of problems and impossible

tasks we all face every day.

Radical Collaboration - NOW•It begins before the student enters the

campus

•It includes Linked In, Facebook and other social networking tools, also Case Studies

•Webinars, blogs, Twitter

•One on One online work with senior faculty

•Use of Stanford’s vast social network after

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education

“In the classroom, innovation means engaging your students in fundamentally different ways, finding ways to identify their passion, and to help them accelerate the pace of learning.”

Final Thoughts for Educators• Include Innovation in your thinking

•Remember: it is meaningful to young minds

•Work with the national government to create a foundation dedicated to innovation

•Work with nonstate actors within civil society on innovative projects that bring

education into the work place -toward global development

Innovators Mentioned In This TalkNorth Carolina State University • The Friday Institute for Educational

Innovationhttp://gismo.fi.ncsu.edu • http://www.fi.ncsu.edu/project/delta-project/

John Kao, Innovation Expert and Author, Innovation Nation - www.johnkao.com

Apple Macintosh – www.apple.com

Stanford University - www.stanford.edu

Arne Duncan, U.S. Secretary of Education - http://www.ed.gov/

Babson Executive Education - http://www3.babson.edu/

Patrick Sciarratta, Friendship Ambassadors Foundation www.faf.org