2019:A School Odyssey

Alex Ragone –http://www.learning-blog.org

Borrowed from:Dr. Scott McLeod

dangerouslyirrelevant.org

(A Remix of Dr. Scott McLeod’s a 2008 K12 Online presentation for

NYSAIS Assistant Head and Division Director’s)

What is adisruptive innovation?

Disruptive innovationschange the game.

Think of a few disruptive innovations.

2 minutes

2009

Undergraduates: 220,000+ Postgraduates: 60,000+Photo from: http://flickr.com/photos/carlorainone/3097333599/

K-12 Curriculum All Online

Cycles 1-20 Cycles 21-25

We’re in here somewhere!

2019

Assumption:

It’s 2019 AND 50%

of your

courses are being

given online

?sWhat does your school look like in 2019?

How do you schedule time?What about extracurriculars?

Where is your school?What is the role of teachers? Administrators?

What is a successful graduate?

Questions?

Implications forschool leaders

1. K-12 education is facing a disruptive innovation. It’s personalized learning.

2. The existing educational model is not a given.

3. All of this is going to sneak up on most school organizations.

Effective leadership fordisruptive innovations

1. Good organizations with good people will disappear if they don’t understand the ‘natural laws’ of disruptive innovation.

2. It’s very difficult for existing successful organizations to become dominant players in the new market.

3. It’s much easier to create a new organization - or buy one - than it is to turn an existing organization around.

4. It’s difficult to analyze the unknowable.

5. First-mover advantage is important when it comes to disruptive innovations.

4. To survive, school organizations must structure themselves to comply with the ‘natural laws’ of disruptive innovations.

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Use different metrics of success

Don’t wait until it is ‘good enough’

Start with underserved student groups

Use different metrics of success

Compete directly with the existing organization

Florida Virtual SchoolServing # of Floridians

K-12.comThe smartest teachers and technologists

developing K-12 curriculum

University of Pheonix The largest university in the world

more thanneeded

goodenough

?

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schools

Education being disrupted

• Boston Public School Teacher training.• NYC Teaching Fellows

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Current leadership models are inadequate for

disruptive innovations

Dr. Scott McLeoddangerouslyirrelevant.org

k12onlineconference.org