When many people think of R&D units, their first image is a Fortune 500 company devoting millions of dollars to some unit of researchers and innovators who are trying to create the next great product. They might picture some carefully protected area filled with one or more teams that are Read more…
In Bold: How to Go Big, Create Wealth, and Impact the World, Peter H. Diamandis and Steven Kotler wrote, “If you don’t disrupt yourself someone else will.” While this statement is not an absolute, it is certainly a proverbial truth. It is applicable to innovation in education as well as Read more…
The modern field of instructional design is a product of the industrial revolution. As such, it brings with it the priorities of the industrial revolution: standardization and uniformity, mass production (and products in general), efficiency, quantification, centralized power / authoritarianism, mechanization, and applied scientific knowledge (also referred to as technology). Read more…
Where did you get the name Birdhouse Learning Labs? To get a free copy of the concept paper, “Toward a new Era of Educational Research and Development, sign up for the League of Extraordinary Educators Mailing List. When you sign up, the welcome email at the very end of the process will include a link to the download. In 2014, while preparing for an upcoming keynote presentation, I was experimenting Read more…
In Orbiting the Giant Hairball: A Corporate Fool’s Guide to Surviving with Grace, author Gordon MacKenzie writes that a hairball is “policy, procedure, conformity, compliance, rigidity, and submission to the status quo, while orbiting is originality, rules-breaking, non-conformity, experimentation, and innovation.” His book focuses on how people in a corporate Read more…
Are you intrigued by the idea of working as an educational innovator or entrepreneur, but you’re wondering how to get started? The following ideas are intended to give you a boost. Start with the Why In a talk at the 2014 ASU GSV Education Innovation Summit, Steve Case said, “You Read more…