This upcoming thursday is the showing of the IA's Presentations Of Learning. These are presentations done by our class to basically synthesize everything we learned through out the semester. However the highlight of this semester was working on our documentaries. This being the case, Pedro and I would have to excel in our presentations as a team. As a team we outlined what we wanted to talk about; however, we realized that we had countless amounts of anecdotes and topics we wanted to touch on. Even though we had a lot to talk about we kept in mind the fact that we have to be concise. Therefore, we created a rough draft of our presentation. Unfortunately life may sometimes be confusing. For me, today in class was especially confusing while working on our POL. The reason being that Pedro and I were trying to tie everything we learned together into one huge clump of information. Our original thought was to tie everything revolving a theme "The Bigger Picture". After brainstorming with Mr. Topf, Augusto, and Domenico for about an hour. We finally were able to grasp the new and improved theme about the innovation "Culture". It involved explaining how culture/mindset is a key determinant of innovation. We then from there could continue the construction of our POL: Later that day, I went over to Pedro's house to elaborate more on our ideas around the theme for our POL. After numerous hours of debating over what works and what doesn't we figured out the perfect ice-breaker/introduction. This intro involved a little history behind the one and only Google. Why? Well because google has an amazing culture between their workers and their mission statement is incredibly powerful:
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Have you ever been engaged on a twitter chat? If you haven't, well, let me just briefly say your missing out! It can get pretty intense, but incredibly interesting; plus, you meet some amazing people and who knows you might even stay in contact with them. Let me tell you about one... On twitter if you type in #stuvoice, you'll find yourself in a highly engaged chat. This chat basically consists of incredible people who all seek the same goal: to spread wisdom about students having a say in the way they learn. Having a chat every monday from 7pm to 8pm, my friend and classmate Pedro Sanchez met the founder of stuvoice-- Zak Malamed. Unexpectedly, we skyped with him during one of our breaks from working on our documentaries. Pedro, Karen, Carolina, and I all sat down and skyped with Zak for more-or-less and hour; chatting up about the possibility of joining him on his stuvoice-live on September 20 in New York. It is going to be a huge conference where people will all share their experiences with their engagement with learning-- students and teachers will be able to learn and share from each other. This is is incredible! However, while we talked to Zak, what stood out to me most was the way the four of us talked about the Innovation Academy and what we do. We all burst out of our seats like kindergardeners getting the chance to help the teacher out with a simple task. This to me was astonishing because it just comes to show you that we actually care and are proud of what we do! You don't see this regularly in students at school, maybe a few but not all of us. This especially relates to what Zak is doing in Stuvoice chats and so it would be amazing if we could join him in New York and help spread this wisdom of student engagement. Countries now a days are ranked based off of how innovative they have been. However, in order to rank innovation they look at many different sectors of a countries growth. Before I explain how innovation in different countries is ranked, let us first have a quick overview on what exactly is Innovation? "Innovation is the specific instrument of entrepreneurship. The act that endows resources with a new capacity to create wealth." ~ Peter Drucker "Imagination is not only the uniquely human capacity to envision that which is not, and therefore the fount of all invention and innovation. In its arguably most transformative and revelatory capacity, it is the power to that enables us to empathize with humans whose experiences we have never shared." ~ J.K. Rowling "But innovation comes from people meeting up in the hallways or calling each other at 10:30 at night with a new idea, or because they realized something that shoots holes in how we've been thinking about a problem." ~ Steve Jobs According to the Merriam-Webster Online dictionary |
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