Innovation

Yesterday we participated in an activity that was chosen by the class: hide and seek with a twist. This was used to represent something new and innovative. The takeaway was that innovation is not as much careful planning and ingenuity, but rather off-the-cuff productivity and advancement.

The process of innovation:
1. Identify a problem or area that can be improved

2. Visualize a solution

3. Begin designing the solution, or effecting any idea generated

4. Test the finished product to ensure functionality

5. Implement the solution

 People innovate by addressing faults and coming up with a new way to do something or a new idea completely. Innovation occurs naturally as a response to an environment. Innovation must be from a hunger to do something new, or do something that has been done before in a new way.

I think the education system needs to be changed.

The solution should be to use technology to empower the students and teachers, and reverse the order of operations of learning. Students should learn at home and come to school with any questions for the teacher to answer and expand upon. Also we need a better curriculum altogether: the current curriculum is weak and lags far behind other countries around the world.