{"data":{"ID":665,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477961166,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Building Better Ideas","Handle":"building_better_ideas","ShortDescription":"The most important thing anyone can do to improve what they do is to become more capable of generating ideas.  In this conversation, we\u2019ll explore the role that ideas have in catalyzing innovative practice, and how you can become more conversant in ideation.  Join us for a provocative conversation about how you, and your organization, can nurture, curate, incubate, grow, extend, and remix ideas to create the raw material for innovation that can lead to new conditions for student learning.","Description":"The theme of Educon 2.9 focuses on sustaining innovation.  With the current landscape of technology, resources and connectivity, the ability to be innovative has never been greater.\r\n\r\nIdeas are the raw material of innovation.  We believe that it is essential for educators, as well as for educational organizations, to develop a disposition, a mindset even, capable of rapid iterative thought and ideation.  How we craft and curate ideas, how they are employed in supporting innovative thought and practice, are essential considerations for for all educators.\r\n\r\nWe believe that ideation is a skill, and a skill that should be developed in all educators.  We believe that educators must learn how to extend beyond the routine, beyond the expectations (and inherent limitations) of their school culture, and reject an autopilot mentality that supports the status quo.  This conversation, necessarily disruptive, will provoke educators to see the opportunity of ideas, and how they can become more effective innovators as a result.","Link":["http:\/\/creativestir.blogspot.com","http:\/\/davidjakesdesigns.com"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"In this conversation, we\u2019ll begin by examining the current mentality of creative thought and practice in schools to ground the conversation.  From there, we\u2019ll challenge co-participants to explore how to nurture, curate, incubate, grow, extend and remix ideas.  We\u2019ll provide provocations that are generative in nature, and support the conversation by engaging participants in strategies that enable them to explore the direct relationship between ideation and innovation.  In the end, providing techniques for ideation supports the creation of a mindset that provides individuals with an approach that directly supports the development of a sustainable capacity to become more innovative.","Presenter":["Adam Provost","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["Director","Burlington Technical Center VT and VITA-Learn.org (VT Educator PD)","Davidjakesdesigns.com"],"PresenterEmail":["adamprovost44@gmail.com","david@davidjakesdesigns.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":83,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":"fyi that David submitted another conversation. Please don't schedule at the same time if both are selected.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}