1. Valerie Hannon: The Innovation Unit, England 2008 Curriculum Corporation Conference Melbourne, Australia November 2008 ‘Only Connect’ Learning Innovation

2. There has never been a better time to embark on a complete rethink of our priorities

3. The dream of wellbeing dreamt until now by a few is not sustainable for all. We have to change. We have to learn how to live better, consuming fewer environmental resources and regenerating the contexts of life. Ezio Manizini Poitecnico of Milan

4. real lives processes values ideas organisations

5. The beginnings of a research field…

6. An emerging UK field of thought leadership…

7. …with an exploding array of exemplary social innovation organisations…

8. …and an inspiring catalogue of social innovation practice

9. Idea set #1: Von Hippel, Leadbeater, Shirky profound changes have arisen in business and social enterprises because ICT enables mass collaboration, and self organisation on a massive scale users are developing products/services with companies freely and open-sourced: democratised innovation a different model of social change: transformation by many small steps

10. Idea set #2: Clayton Christensen Disruptive innovation is what is needed to transform learning/schooling D.I. is a positive force: it’s the process where an innovation transforms a market where services are complicated and expensive into one characterised by simplicity, convenience and accessibility D.I. disrupts the upward improvement trajectory Often poorer, initially, than conventional service; so not attractive to market leaders and their customers

11. the principles of social innovation…. open collaborative free with (not ‘to’ or ‘for’)

12. Connect learning ecosystems!

13. engages children in growing and celebrating food twin concepts of the open classroom and expanded faculty brings together gardeners, artists, cooks, teachers, and the local community “to know our world through a plot of land”

14. Our mission is bigger than our footprint… ‘networked nonprofits achieve lofty missions with humble means…[by putting] their mission first and their organisation second…and they cooperate as equal nodes as a constellation of actors’ Stanford Social Innovation Review, Spring 2008

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16. these ‘next practice’ schools model the effort to build new relationships (connections) which ~ build participation provide learners with recognition make children feel cared for motivate This is learning ‘with’; not ‘to’ or ‘for’ Charles Leadbeater What’s Next? 2008

17. Learning Feature Where learning takes place Mainly in schools Past Who learns fromTeachers Learning ModeInstruction When In school terms and hours The lesson AssessmentEnd of the line Focus on cognitive skills How In classrooms, from books, whiteboards FundingTo schools and school boards Standards/Measures Top down In schools (including Studio schools, learning villages and open campuses), cultural centres, businesses, homes, virtual centres and other places across the city Future Teachers, parents, other skilled adults, peers and social networks Interaction, collaboration More learning by doing and discovery All the time, in different periods that more suit people’s individual learning During learning for better learning More peer-to-peer evaluation and self- evaluation against learning plans More focus on non-cognitive skills More real world learning Schools as productive units More to pupils, learning networks More bottom up targets and self- evaluation

18. ‘The future’s already here – it’s just unevenly distributed’ William Gibson

20. Engagement (through) Relevance: enterprise and enquiry led knowledge and skills balance learning through doing thematic and project emphasis Learning which is deep, authentic and motivational Co-construction negotiation of curriculum content and delivery modes location timetabling Integration (of) In/out of school contexts: learning processes settings and styles informal, formal and virtual learning family, business and community partnerships Learner/teacher mix: peer tutors teachers as learners parents external experts mentoring, coaching and learning communities © Paul Hamlyn Foundation & The Innovation Unit

21. Pedagogy for Tomorrow- the view from Finland Ubiquitous technology, ubiquitous opportunity Collaborative, social-constructivist learning Problem-based instruction Progressive inquiry, experimental study Peer feedback and peer cooperation Director General, Finnish Board of Education Timo Lankinen

22. “ Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.” E.M.Forster Howards End 1910