So made it into the #SYD19 Google Innovator academy hosted at the Sydney Google office. Major benefit is connecting with some awesome educators. Amazing start to this 3 day event. Here are some brief notes, resources and pictures.
After almost 50 Academies there are over 1500+ Google Innovators in over 40 countries.
Difficult paths lead to beautiful destinations
Sam Gibson
Spark – History of Google Innovation Academy by Mark Wagner
So you can now buy brain wave monitors….
…with science and the human heart there is no limit
U2 – Miracle drug
You are an architect of the possible
Google Glass instruction
I do not think the measure of a civilization is how tall its buildings of concrete are but rather how well its people have learned to relate to their environment and fellow man.
– Sun Bear (Vincent LaDuke)
Spark – Google Earth by John
Google Earth Voyager
Google Earth – Timelapse
Lion (film) based on book A long way home by Saroo Brierley
Keyboard shortcuts in Google Earth: arrow keys, shift + arrow keys, option + arrow keys
3D images made by plane flying over multiple times and images getting stiched together.
Students tell narratives through Google Earth.
John Bailey (Google Earth education lead
Design thinking sprint – Monica
SmashboardEdu – an example of a Google Innovator challenge from 2017
Activity – Zen counting
Spark – Taking Action by Stuart
Innovation is a social justice issue
Stuart Kelly
“People don’t cling to small goals”
Twice a term, Aorere College asks it’s students (via Google Forms) what the school needs to:
- Keep doing
- Stop doing
- Start doing
Spark – The culture of Google by Dan
Quantity > Quality
Culture of Google: Curiosity, Agency, Collaboration, Risk-taking
Project Culture Shift
Day 2
Spark: Streetview with Sue
Spark: Building a mindset of innovation (Fear factor) by Lorinda Ferry
“Have a go”
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Books will soon be obsolete in the schools. Scholars will soon be instructed through the eye. It is possible to teach every branch of human knowledge with the motion picture. Our school system will be completely changed in ten years.”
Thomas Edison, 1913
Spark – Implementing sustainable innovation by Rich
Upschool – a series of videos that explains teaching and learning to parents.
“What happens with the rockstar leaves”
It’s more than ‘buy in‘, it’s co-creation.
Energiser day – Saturday
Advocacy
If you think you are too small to make a difference, try sleeping with a mosquito.
The Dalai Lama
Sean Arnold – Educational advocate
Google’s advocacy playbook.
More than a tech – advocating to parents about tech use.
BewellEDU.com – an example of a previous Innovator’s project.
