Past Events
Disruptive Innovation: First Different, Then Better
October 20 - October 20, 2009
Location:
Washington, DC
Overview
“I think that the Big Picture schools are about as great an example of integrating opportunities to feel success with the delivery of curriculum as exists in America. By knitting together the delivery of the content they need to learn, with projects that allow them to use what they learn and feel successful, they’ve just done a wonderful thing; and I think it is a beacon for all of us.”
- Clay Christensen, Professor at Harvard Business School and Author of Disrupting Class
“Big Picture is engaging students in discovering the level of content they understand, and how they apply it, and how they appreciate it, and how they can connect it to the next task in education, life, and experience.”
– U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA) Chair of the House Education and Labor Committee
Disruptive Innovation: First Different, Then Better was an event hosted by Big Picture Learning in order to garner stronger support for BPL’s successful and innovative work in schools internationally, as well as to present Clayton Christensen with the inaugural BPL Disruptive Innovation Award. An impressive roster of politicians came out in support and spoke (see video above), an impressive hand-crafted hammer was presented to Professor Christensen in recognition of his work as a pioneer in the field of disruptive innovation, and most impressively, four Big Picture Learning students from around the country shared their experiences and stories that have come from being a BPL learner.
Click here to read a piece about Big Picture Learning’s role in disrupting education from EduFlack, a blog devoted to improving education through effective communication.
Click here to read the press release from the event, featured on Yahoo! News.
Click on the links below to download the articles and white papers that were presented and discussed at this event:
- At the Core of the Apple Store: Images of Next Generation Learning by Elliot Washor, Charlie Mojkowski and Loran Newsom
- Thoughts on Innovation by Elliot Washor
- Going, Going, Gone by Elliot Washor
- COLLEGE UNBOUND, a Big Picture Initiative: Why Innovation is Needed in Post Secondary Education by Dennis Littky and Jamie Scurry
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