Resources that Inspire me to understand change, disruptive innovation, and educational technology.

James Gardner's The Little Innovation Book

Clayton M. Christensen's, The Innovators Dilemma When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail

HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing Yourself Peter F. Drucker, William Oncken Jr., Donald L. Wass, Stephen R. Covey, Diane L. Coutu, Tony Schwartz, Catherine McCarthy, Edward M. Hallowell, Stewart D. Friedman, Sumantra Ghoshal, Heike Bruch, Robert E. Quinn, Robert S. Kaplan, Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, Annie McKee

Meeting the Challenge of Disruptive ChangeHBR Articles Clayton M. Christensen, Michael Overdorf Mar 01, 2000

How Boredom Can Drive Innovation Blog Posts Scott Anthony May 12, 2011

Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail (HBR Classic)
by John P. Kotter
11 pages. Publication date: Jan 01, 2007. Prod. #: R0701J-PDF-ENG

Review of John P. Kotter's article entitled Leading Change: Why Transformation Efforts Fail

"Businesses hoping to survive over the long term will have to remake themselves into better competitors at least once along the way. These efforts have gone under many banners: total quality management, reengineering, rightsizing, restructuring, cultural change, and turnarounds, to name a few. In almost every case, the goal has been to cope with a new, more challenging market by changing the way business is conducted. A few of these endeavors have been very successful. A few have been utter failures. Most fall somewhere in between, with a distinct tilt toward the lower end of the scale. John P. Kotter is renowned for his work on leading organizational change. In 1995, when this article was first published, he had just completed a 10-year study of more than 100 companies that attempted such a transformation. Here he shares the results of his observations, outlining the eight largest errors that can doom these efforts and explaining the general lessons that encourage success. Unsuccessful transitions almost always founder during at least one of the following phases: generating a sense of urgency, establishing a powerful guiding coalition, developing a vision, communicating the vision clearly and often, removing obstacles, planning for and creating short-term wins, avoiding premature declarations of victory, and embedding changes in the corporate culture. Realizing that change usually takes a long time, says Kotter, can improve the chances of success.This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. It was originally published in March-April 1995 and was republished in January 2007 as an HBR Classic "(Kotter, 2007).

This article by Kotter is very useful in that it deals with a vast study of over 100 companies. The study focuses on the biggest errors that can doom innovative efforts within organizations. I found it quite interesting that one of the most prolific places for error within an organiation is when such organizations are generating a "sense of urgency". As you know we have studied Kotter in this class all learned about his "sense of urgency" and it's importance in industry. I am excited to purchase and read the full article and draw connections from Kotter's ideas.

Final Reflection

I see myself taking a much more active role in teaching others on my campus about technology in the coming years. I consider myself, as do others, to be a go-to person for technology on my campus. I feel like I teach a technologically advanced first grade class, but I haven’t shared much with my faculty. I am the webmaster for my school’s website this year so I will be holding trainings for the teachers. I intend to showcase my PowerPoint presentations that I have created in this class during these meetings to help our teachers integrate technology into their classrooms. Essentially I see myself being more of a teacher to the faculty in terms of the technological advancement of our school.

I feel that my school will integrate technology more in the coming years. We have been awarded a grant in which each classroom is equipped with netbooks, ipads, and itouches. We are about to receive extensive trainings on these devices and how to use them to further our students’ education. I think as a whole that we are moving in the right direction.

The most important disruptive innovation that I can use to transform my organization is the increased use of cloud technology in place of more traditional educational methods. I will be using flat classroom, wikis, and googledocs this year in my classroom and in trainings that I give to the faculty. I intend to move my organization into one of collaboration, both in and out of the classroom. I also will try and encourage others to try giving students choices in how they present their assignments for grading.

In moving my campus from reaction to pro-action I feel the need to be a leader in innovative technology in the classroom. I intend to use all of the resources that I have learned from this class and to motivate the students and faculty to try new things. I know that as a campus we have had fun learning to blog over the past few summers, and the new devices we are blessed to have will increase student learning dramatically. I will be the driving force in getting teachers to take risks and try new technology, even if they feel insecure about it.

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I did it in the style of a powerpoint presentation. I think I will present it to my school. Hope you like!

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How do I upload a powerpoint presentation to my blog? I see no paperclip icon or attachment button. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I have to say that this is probably the most challenging assignment so far for me in graduate school. The literature was so overwhelming that I just didn't think I was going to make it. But alas with the support of my wonderful husband who watched my child without a break for untold hours...I am finished. I feel as though I have just run a marathon. I feel great though! I ended up turning this task into a powerpoint presentation, and I think that I am going to present it to our faculty. It's funny how things work out...how immense learning and understanding of a concept can occur when you try to teach it. In writing these slides, clarity happened for me. I hope you enjoy and I PRAY I am on the right track!