{"id":279,"date":"2016-03-06T19:59:30","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T19:59:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lesliemcbeth\/?p=279"},"modified":"2016-03-06T20:09:38","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T20:09:38","slug":"google-innovators-how-to-build-a-moonshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cohort21.com\/lesliemcbeth\/2016\/03\/06\/google-innovators-how-to-build-a-moonshot\/","title":{"rendered":"Google Innovators: How to Build a Moonshot."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Note: This is the first in a series of posts in which I am processing\u00a0my experience at the <\/span><\/i>Google Certified Innovators<\/span><\/i><\/a> Academy in Mountain View, CA. in February. I\u2019m grateful for this inspiring experience and look forward to sharing with the Cohort 21 and Greenwood communities over the next year. For more details on my application to the program, see my last <\/span><\/i>post.<\/span><\/i><\/a><\/p>\n \u201cMost teachers did not go into the business of education because they love risk…if the adults in school feel compelled to portray themselves as all-knowing, they are unlikely to take real risks in their own personal and professional growth.\u201d (Grant Litchman, #EdJourney<\/a>, p. 52-53)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n How do you inspire a room full of teachers to become renegades? To break the rules and try something new? How do you convince them that they have the power to make the impossible possible in our education system? <\/span><\/p>\n Introduce them to Gina Rosales<\/a> from <\/span>X<\/span><\/a>, a company that proclaims \u00a0\u201cWe\u2019re a moonshot factory. Our mission is to invent and launch \u201cmoonshot\u201d technologies that we hope could someday make the world a radically better place.\u201d In other words, they make the impossible possible by inventing\u00a0things like the self-driving car and hot air balloons that bring internet access to remote communities.<\/span><\/p>\n Gina started by talking about disruptive innovation by using a fitting analogy about the <\/span>invention of the light bulb<\/span><\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n Imagine that it is the mid 19th century. You are working furiously trying to invent develop some brilliant idea. However, your candles keep burning out and you need a solution to enable you to work after dark. Three ideas are brought to the table:<\/em><\/p>\n Gina challenged\u00a0us: \u201cdon\u2019t think about fatter candles, think about light bulbs<\/strong>.\u201d In other words, how might we develop disruptive innovations in education?<\/span><\/p>\n\n