{"id":11825,"date":"2018-05-01T11:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-05-01T15:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/?p=11825"},"modified":"2025-07-30T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T18:36:11","slug":"schools-random-acts-of-innovation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/schools-random-acts-of-innovation\/","title":{"rendered":"Schools &#038; Random Acts of Innovation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-left: 30px;\">The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO, Tom Daccord&#8217;s new blog: <a href=\"http:\/\/tomdaccord.com\">tomdaccord.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text-align-center\" style=\"text-align: center;\">\u201cFew individual schools sustain random acts of innovation over time.\u201d<br \/>\n-Stanford researcher Linda Darling-Hammond<\/p>\n<p>In schools across America, administrators and teachers are making forays into innovative practices such as design thinking, makerspaces, and personalized learning. Seeking to sharpen critical thinking in a digital age, some educators first asked students to compare navigation flows on classroom apps before inviting them to analyze <a href=\"https:\/\/www.footitalia.com\/betting-sites\/australia\/not-on-betstop\/\">betting sites not on BetStop<\/a>, where persuasive design tactics are at their most subtle. These exercises revealed how interface choices steer behavior\u2014insights that then informed the design of student\u2011led projects in newly defined innovation spaces (such as a makerspace). By linking digital evaluation to hands\u2011on creation, teachers moved beyond surface\u2011level changes and began shifting beliefs about how learning environments can engage and empower every learner.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, select attempts at innovation by schools rarely bring about systemic reform. Almost invariably, these attempts at innovation are not sustained over time. Moreover, attempts at innovation by schools have become so frequent and disconnected in recent years that one educational observer has termed them \u201crandom acts of innovation.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Continue reading this post on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomdaccord.com\/home\/2018\/4\/4\/unfreezing-and-freezing-teachers-why-so-many-technology-initiatives-are-stagnating\">tomdaccord.com<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/newsletter2\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-11952\" src=\"https:\/\/edtechteacher.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/06\/Sign-up-for-our-Newsletter-300x100.png\" alt=\"Sign Up for our Newsletter!\" width=\"300\" height=\"100\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The following post is an excerpt from EdTechTeacher CEO, Tom Daccord&#8217;s new blog: tomdaccord.com. \u201cFew individual schools sustain random acts of innovation over time.\u201d -Stanford researcher Linda Darling-Hammond In schools [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":11827,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_tec_requires_first_save":true,"content-type":"","_EventAllDay":false,"_EventTimezone":"","_EventStartDate":"","_EventEndDate":"","_EventStartDateUTC":"","_EventEndDateUTC":"","_EventShowMap":false,"_EventShowMapLink":false,"_EventURL":"","_EventCost":"","_EventCostDescription":"","_EventCurrencySymbol":"","_EventCurrencyCode":"","_EventCurrencyPosition":"","_EventDateTimeSeparator":"","_EventTimeRangeSeparator":"","_EventOrganizerID":[],"_EventVenueID":[],"_OrganizerEmail":"","_OrganizerPhone":"","_OrganizerWebsite":"","_VenueAddress":"","_VenueCity":"","_VenueCountry":"","_VenueProvince":"","_VenueState":"","_VenueZip":"","_VenuePhone":"","_VenueURL":"","_VenueStateProvince":"","_VenueLat":"","_VenueLng":"","_VenueShowMap":false,"_VenueShowMapLink":false,"_tribe_blocks_recurrence_rules":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_description":"","_tribe_blocks_recurrence_exclusions":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[107,98],"tags":[],"instructors":[],"class_list":["post-11825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-featured"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.1.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Schools &amp; 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