Innovation and Education
Innovation, a word describing a new idea, device or process that is an original, something to bring society up to another level. However, when discussing innovation and education I do not think it has to be in terms of something new, something never been used or discussed, because when it comes to innovation in education I am a firm believer in not “recreating the wheel”. What I mean by that, is that societies have been educating themselves and their fellow men and women for centuries- that is a ton of data to draw from, and in the work I do, when you have centuries worth of data you might want to extrapolate some of the points made before you try and invent what you think is an entirely different approach. By using the idea behind genetic algorithms, or Darwin’s theory of natural selection, we could try and find the best combination of education methods to create or innovate the superhuman of education history, through centuries of education, across hundreds of societies and cultures. The United States is supposed to be a “superpower” of a nation, yet we are significantly lagging behind many other countries when it comes to education. This could be attributed to many factors, but I feel it also has to do with our size and our age as a nation. Although there are other countries that have centuries of education to fall back on, years of trial and error, we are a newer nation that feels that … Continue reading