Teaching Innovation in School Technology Classes

摘要

Innovation is central to modern industry. It can and should be taught in schools. Not only does providing students a background in innovation benefit them later in life and industry, but it also promotes and further develops their critical thinking and collaboration skills. Despite the need for innovation, many have struggled with how to teach it. Typically, this is a result of thinking about innovation too linearly. In innovation, there typically is no single right answer, and there isn't a defined path leading towards a perfect solution. Rather, innovation is a nonlinear development of ideas where the ingredients of finding, shaping, playing, refining, and sharing are used interchangeably to develop innovative products, systems, or services.