What is Disruptive Innovation in Education?

Disruptive innovation is the affordable and accessible online learning that facilitates personalized learning where the students control the time, place, path, and pace.

I am an English language learner and to be taking classes online where I can pause the videos and conferences, and have the closed captions subtitles is very useful for me. Even when I go to the movies, sometimes I wish they came with subtitles so that I wouldn’t miss some parts.

The disruptive innovation is very important because it gives the students more, individualized, and different possibilities to learn. It allows them to learn at their own pace, whenever they want, however they want, and wherever they want.

Blended learning is about the learning, but the technology is a huge part of it because it is the one that gives the student the freedom to learn what, how, when, and what they want. Technology opens the enclosed classroom to an endless world of possibilities.

I see most of the blended learning models working in my district. I already use rotations, and I already have a plan to integrate the online learning in one of them so the students can choose if they want to learn or reinforce in a different way. My class is part of a one-way dual program and I teach the Spanish side. I have not checked if there are a lot of options in this language for the different standards we need to teach, but I am sure I will find most of them.

I know my daughter already had flipped classrooms. She didn’t like it. She felt the teacher was not doing much and that she had to learn everything by herself. That was some years ago and I tried to explain the benefits of it but she was not content about it. I see the value of a flipped classroom, but I guess you have to sell the idea so the students don’t feel that they have to “waste” extra time learning outside the classroom.

I think that with a growth mindset everything is possible. The Individual Playlist Model looks hard to implement, but it really gives the students that individual/personalized learning we’re looking.

The more I read or watch videos I can see why our district has made some decisions to move to a more modern education system. We are a 1:1 district and it has implemented some programs where the students have choices to take the path they think k is the best according to their circumstances.

References:

[Clayton Christensen Institute] (2014, June 5) Part 6 -- Technology as a Disruptive Force in Education [Video File] Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0ENX-GTUf4

[Edmentum] (2013, Mar 5) Disrupting Class - Part 3: Disruptive Innovation in Education [Video File] Retrieved from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=7&v=iX2hOF5YkfQ

Disruptive innovation in education