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When contemplating the concept of the renew-to-new continuum within my context, I wonder if there is anything I can do in my life that is truly new. We\u2019re all building on the knowledge and ideas and inventions that have come before us. When I think of newness and innovation in a revolutionary sort of way, I think of the iPhone or YouTube, not of me introducing a new learning management system into my workplace. That being said, I suppose the continuum can be molded to fit its appropriate environment, and there\u2019s no need to compare my workplace to the massive progress of the entire planet. Earth-wide innovations are happening too fast and frequently for me to keep up, but I can at least do my part to accept and move with the inevitable, innovative evolution toward digital learning.<\/p>\n
Unit 2 asks why we innovate, and we can reflect on this question framed by a poetic musing from Dron: \u201cIf we learn new ways of changing, then we can begin a rich evolutionary process where the rules of evolution themselves evolve, thus enabling more change and continuous evolution towards a peak of fitness that forever moves as we approach it\u201d (2017, p. 261).<\/p>\n
Goldman (2012) describes one such evolutionary process – the journey to becoming a design thinker – using the term mindshifts<\/em>\u00a0to signify four key approaches that are adopted on this path:<\/p>\n For use in our context-specific design process, we were introduced to design principles<\/i>, and asked to develop our own. For my assignment, I compiled a fairly straightforward list of helpful items such as \u201clisten to users\u201d and \u201csimplify,\u201d but out of the collection, one of my design principles sparkles and shines as an upgraded version of the infamous Golden Rule, and it goes a little something like this:<\/p>\n “Create a learning environment\u00a0that I would like to learn in.”<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n References<\/span><\/p>\n Dron, J. (2014).\u00a0Innovation and Change: Changing how we Change<\/a>. In Zawacki-Richter, O. & T. Anderson (Eds.),\u00a0Online distance education: Towards a research agenda<\/i>. Athabasca, AB: AU Press.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n Goldman, S., Carroll, M. P., Kabayadondo, Z., Cavagnaro, L. B., Royalty, A. W., Roth, B., & Kim, J. (2012).\u00a0Assessing d.learning: Capturing the journey of becoming a design thinker<\/a>. In H. Plattner, C. Meinel & L. Leifer (eds).\u00a0Design thinking research: Understanding innovation<\/i>. (pp. 13-33). Berlin: Springer.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" When contemplating the concept of the renew-to-new continuum within my context, I wonder if there is anything I can do in my life that is truly new. We\u2019re all building on the knowledge and ideas and inventions that have come before us. When I think of newness and innovation in a revolutionary sort of way, … Continue reading LRNT 524 – Unit 2 – Why Innovate?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,1],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lrnt524","category-uncategorized","tag-lrnt-524"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=276"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":282,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/276\/revisions\/282"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/malat-webspace.royalroads.ca\/rru0003\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}\n