{"id":48,"date":"2017-10-24T20:15:20","date_gmt":"2017-10-24T20:15:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/?p=48"},"modified":"2017-11-12T01:31:45","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T01:31:45","slug":"my-name-is-isabella-and-im-a-recovering-innovationhater","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/2017\/10\/24\/my-name-is-isabella-and-im-a-recovering-innovationhater\/","title":{"rendered":"My name is Isabella, and I’m a recovering #innovationhater."},"content":{"rendered":"

Last\u00a0 week I started two new things simultaneously. I started reading The Innovator’s Mindset<\/em> by George Couros, and started listing to the podcast Inside Innovation<\/em> by A.J. Juliani. Needless to say, the word “innovation” has been bouncing around my head.\"\"<\/a><\/h2>\n

I was particularly struck by Juliani’s first podcast. In it, he criticizes the tendency for teachers to put innovation on a pedestal – that it must be something unique and groundbreaking in order to qualify as innovative. In response he defines innovation as the practice of trying something new in order to help your students learn better. He cautions educators from being swayed by those criticizing teaching practices that may not have worked for them, or shying away from tools that came out a while ago that may be considered “old”. In other words, we need to ignore the haters. Those that may seek to define innovation for you. Those that may label something you are doing as innovative or not. Innovation haters are those that judge, criticize and analyse the hard work of others.\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

As I listened, I felt that he was speaking directly to the voices in my head.\u00a0 Through listening I was reminded that innovation can be the small, simple changes I make for my students that make their learning experience better.<\/p>\n

So the point of this blog post? Perhaps it’s that I got to doing a blog post at all! Even before Day 1 of Cohort 21, I felt of the pedestal of innovation looming over me. I ruminated, analyzed and was generally disgruntled at the “un-innovativeness” of my thinking. I wanted my action plan to be innovative. I wanted my blog posts to be unique and prolific. Through my ponderings this week, and in the typing of my first blog post, I took my first step away from being my own biggest hater.\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0I realized I was my biggest barrier to innovation. I was waiting for something bigger and better to come along. I was waiting for something I could place on a pedestal. As a come to terms with my tendency to be my own innovation hater, I will choose to focus on the small changes and the small victories.<\/p>\n

I am excited to share my journey in inviting innovation in everyday.<\/p>\n

Engage with me…what small changes are you making as a result of Cohort 21? Tell me about a tiny innovation you have made! Let’s celebrate together.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h3>\n

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Last\u00a0 week I started two new things simultaneously. I started reading The Innovator’s Mindset by George Couros, and started listing to the podcast Inside Innovation by A.J. Juliani. Needless to say, the word “innovation” has been bouncing around my head. I was particularly struck by Juliani’s first podcast. In it, he criticizes the tendency for … Continue reading “My name is Isabella, and I’m a recovering #innovationhater.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":191,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wds_primary_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,8,7,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-classroom-reflections","category-face-2-face-sessions","category-innovation","category-podcasts","category-professional-development"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/191"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":59,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48\/revisions\/59"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/isabellabrown\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}