A Teacher's Ruminations

Slicing every day in March Creativity and innovation... I've been thinking a lot about both of these topics lately. Probably because I've been reading George Couros' book,  The Innovator's Mindset  and because  +Margaret Simon  has nudged some of us to write about this topic today.  So far, one of the biggest takeaways from reading this book by  +George Couros  has been the idea that innovation for innovation's sake is not good enough.  We innovate in order to create something NEW and BETTER than what we had before. To create something new that doesn't enhance student learning, is not worth our time.  And, of course, an innovation could be a  new iteration  of an old idea as long as it will do want we want to do, but better. in this case, we want to help students learn better and more effectively. Keeping these ideas in mind has really helped me think more clearly about innovation.  Although I'm ...