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+ Disruptive Technology at Portobello High School David McKee + What is disruptive technology? A disruptive technology is a technological innovation, product, or service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or
David McKee
“A disruptive technology is a technological innovation, product, or
service that eventually overturns the existing dominant technology or product in the market.”
“New ways of doing things that disrupt or overturn the traditional
Graduate architecture students, part 2 of
professional programme studying Disruptive Technology unit
Remo Pedreschi and Chris Speed: Material
(concrete) + Immaterial (digital)
Apparently discrete, but connected by the idea
used, possibly not as intended
Digital – new technologies, pervasiveness of
networks
Concrete – new techniques for casting Both now easier to do, disrupting who can make
it and what can be made
Project ongoing at Castleview Primary School Kenny MacAskill MSP recommended talking to us Working towards new school Interesting context for students to consider – what is a school? Remo Pedreschi, Professor of Architectural Technology John Burnside, previous Depute Just completed 2nd group in May
Eric Von Hippel: Democratizing Innovation - ‘manufacturers should
systematically seek our innovations developed by users’
Work with school (‘lead user’) to establish need and to develop idea –
grass roots rather than top down
In practice, each student works with a teacher and a group of pupils Students have an area of interest (and
research/context eg CfE) but develop their ideas through discussion and decide what the project will be
Outcomes unpredictable, and potentially
disruptive, process as important as output
Different way for students to think about how to
approach projects
“John has been great. We have been team teaching together and he has been flexible in manipulating the tasks or experiments to fit the needs of the pupils. We tested how well pupils learn using mobile phones compared to teacher led learning. We also tested how photographs could be used to develop a pupil's perspective on events. For this, a pupil dressed up as a World War 1 soldier and we took photos of them in a makeshift No man's land. The pupils loved it and gleaned how a man could be powerful/fragile, nervous/ courageous at the same time from the photographs from different angles. John has spoken to the class on a number of occasions to explain his vision and provided the pupils with feedback on how these experiments went. It has been a lot of fun.” “It was both useful and interesting – with Barnaby's project, the Eco Team got data out of it, a way of linking their work with the 'real world' and insight into the implications their work will have globally, e.g. paper use and forest destruction”.
“It was a rather ethereal concept”
‘Nice to have some contact with the real world!’ Pupils and teachers experience rich engagement with partners,
innovative and unusual projects - active learning, novel topics, student-centered approaches
Challenge existing thinking and processes – do things differently? Still improving, but definitely a worthwhile project for the school