It is not enough to have an innovative idea, it is not enough to draft a plan, it is also not enough to rally people into joining the movement. In order to piece everything together and give the innovation plan a chance of being a success, someone must step up to lead the organizational change. This can be a rather daunting idea and it may seem like a huge burden to take on, however the 4DX model provides a way for the implementation of an innovation plan to be more of a true group collaboration process. Using 4DX will help set up the road for success. Before we explore how 4DX will help drive our student e-portfolio initiative, we will take a look at the 5 stages of change and the 4 disciplines of execution.
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If you walk into a school and survey the students, many students will describe school as boring; they lack to see the importance in going to school and will either merely comply to meet the requirements, cheat their way to graduation, or drop out. Is this what we want for our children? Is this what we want for our society? Do we want our society to be made up of members with regrets and unfulfilled goals because they lacked to see value in the education they were being provided with? Personally, I would love to see a world with an abundance of doctors, engineers, scientists, meteorologists, architects, lawyers, educators, and pharmacists that pursued a higher education in their respective field because they discovered a passion for that subject and continue to educate themselves in order to feed that passion.
Have you ever asked a student what they learned in school that day? Have you ever gotten a response that consisted of more than a mere shrug and a one word answer? Surely in the eight hours (or more) a day that students spend within a school building there is at least one thing they have learned, so why the lack of response? Often times this occurs because students play a very passive role in their learning and therefore do not feel any ownership over their learning, which results in their learning experiences not being very meaningful. What can we do to change this? We can begin to use student e-portfolios in our classrooms. I am on a mission to help create more meaningful learning experiences for students. When learning has meaning to the students, we are able to unleash much more of their potential. The content our students are receiving is very rich, but that in itself can be an issue, they are simply receiving. Many students go to school every day and are passive learners. If students are given choices in the way that they showcase their learning and are guided to reflect on their learning, they begin to take ownership of their learning. When students take ownership of their learning, that is when it begins to have meaning to them.
The integration of student e-portfolios have proven to be beneficial in creating more meaningful learning experiences. Read the literature review below to become familiar with a few projects and studies that have explored this idea. I invite you to take a look at my Student E-Portfolio Initiative for the upcoming school year. A literature review, and an implementation plan with logistical information will follow within a couple of weeks. If you have implemented a plan to use e-portfolios at your campus I would love to learn from your experiences. What were some challenges you faced? What were some unexpected benefits that came out of this initiative? Feel free to leave a comment or send me an email.
I define disruptive innovation as the process that occurs when a new idea/practice that dares to challenge an old idea/practice is presented. According to Horn and Staker (2015), disruptive innovations "must get better and better according to the incumbent definition of performance while remaining more affordable, convenient, accessible, or simple." (p. 3) Basically that they have to 'one up' whatever the current standard is. Disruptive innovation is of high importance because without it, we would be at a standstill and not be progressing forward. Can you imagine a world without Netflix, Skype, or GPS? Upon their launch, all these were disruptive innovations.
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