Bringing Entrepreneurial Spirit to Life Through Startup Weekend EDU - Connect 2015 Conference...

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Stephanie Chan Angie Tarasoff Sherry Langland Calgary Board of Education Alberta Education Edmonton Public School Board Bringing Entrepreneurial Spirit t Life Through Connect 2015, Niagara Falls, Ontario

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  • Stephanie ChanAngie TarasoffSherry Langland

    Calgary Board of EducationAlberta EducationEdmonton Public School Board

    Bringing Entrepreneurial Spiritt Life Through

    Connect 2015, Niagara Falls, Ontario

    PresenterPresentation NotesQuick introAcknowledge my team members who arent able to be here

    Stephanie - Educational Tech Specialist & CTS/CTF TeacherAngie - Senior Manager in School Technology Branch, AB EdSherry Innovative jr. high teacher at Edmonton Public Schools

    Startup Weekend EDU was something we took on as volunteers, an experiment that we led in collaboration with many others

  • On the Roster

    What is SW?&

    Whats an Entrepreneur?

    ResponsivePedagogy How

    SWEDUWorks

    Observations,Learnings &Next Steps

    PresenterPresentation NotesEntrepreneurial ideas & characteristics of entrepreneursEntrepreneurial sprit in teaching and learningExplain how SW EDU worksWhat we saw through our experiences and next steps

  • What is Startup Weekend EDU?

    Startup Weekend Trailer by 8:45 a. Retrieved April 12, 2015 from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtsv9R99DjE

    PresenterPresentation NotesKeep in mind regular startup weekend event and theres a few perspectives from a sponsor/mentor at the very end of the event- San Francisco Bay

    How the event works, atmosphere, and scheduleBrings together people who dont know each other, diverse talents, time constraints, with mentors

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rtsv9R99DjE

  • Startup Weekend By the Numbers

    112 Countries568 Cities 1248 Events

    105KAttendees

    29 Events This Weekend

    Streams include:Regular, EDU, IoT, Big Data, Small Biz, Maker, Youth,

    Health, Mobile, Library, Women

    PresenterPresentation NotesUp Global

    Education Entrepreneurs, Startup Weekend, and other initiatives11 EDU events in May alone:This coming weekend: California, Kenya, Spain, Brazil, AustraliaMay 29-30 Toronton SWYouth

    Global Sponsors: Google for Entrepreneurs, Coca ColaSponsors of EDU: Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, EdSurge

  • Whats an Entrepreneur?

    How can we create value for ourselves and others?

    How can we find and solve complex problems that matter?

    How can we create better, faster, boarder, and more sustainable impact?

    Image created using tagul.com

    PresenterPresentation NotesFirst of all, when you see this question, what comes to mind?What is an entrepreneur?

    We value these characteristics in entrepreneurs that enable them to succeedBut what drives them?In all of the interactions Ive had with entrepreneurs and reading, its clear that entrepreneurs focus on some very important questions

    Why, motivation

  • Where Do Great Ideas Come From?

    Bulb1 by Quenya101 is licensed under CC by 3.0. Surprise Box by Joanito Goodface is licensed under CC by 3.0. LinkedIn Network Visualization Analysis for S. Chan by Socilab.

    Seemingly unrelated elements & situations

    Time & trial

    Collisions between people & ideas

    - Steven Johnson, Where Good Ideas Come From, 2011

    PresenterPresentation NotesGenius? Extraordinary circumstances?Steven Johnson says 3:

    Unrelated elements e.g. buying music online one song at a timeTime and trial e.g. Rovio 8 yrs Angry BirdsCollisions e.g. most of what resulted in SWEDU

    Talked about whyThis is the what do they work on

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  • Two Bits of Entrepreneurial Thinking

    GapingVoid (2012). Fail often [online image]. Retrieved April 16, 2015 from http://gapingvoid.com/2012/07/03/fail-often/Buildmeasurelearn [online image]. Retrieved April 16, 2015 from http://ramlijohn.com/lean-startup-does-not-mean-cheap/

    PresenterPresentation NotesIve shared a little bit about the why - motivations of entrepreneurs and characteristicsTalked about where ideas come from what they work on

    Now how do entrepreneurs go about using their competencies to create impact in the world through their experiences that fuel great ideas?

    Just share a couple tidbits that help to frame the type of entrepreneurship I am sharing with you today.Its about building as you gonot knowing what the right answer isvaluing failureMuch more to it, but it gives you an idea of where were heading

    http://gapingvoid.com/2012/07/03/fail-often/http://ramlijohn.com/lean-startup-does-not-mean-cheap/

  • Entrepreneurial Thinking & Albertas Curricular Directions

    Intentional design of learning that engages academically and intellectually

    Worthwhile, relevant, connected work

    Relationships & culture of learning

    Friesen, S. (2009). What did you do in school today? Teaching Effectiveness: A Framework and Rubric. Toronto: Canadian Education Association.

    PresenterPresentation NotesWeve talked about the why, what, how

    It lives across pedagogy

    Ministerial Order on student learning sets direction for the educated Albertan of the future to be the 3 Es: an Engaged Thinker and Ethical Citizen with an Entrepreneurial Spirit

    We can see strong connections in entrepreneurial learning and application across the design of tasks and assessments.Examples: Teaching Effectiveness Framework Dr. Sharon Friesen and the Galileo Educational Network Werklund School of Education at the U of C (particularly principles 1, 2, and 4), the Alberta Education cross-curricular competencies, and the Key Components of the Career and Technology Foundations (CTF) program of studies.

    Entrepreneurial spirit requires us to define it more make connections between what how entrepreneurs do their work and pedagogy

  • How Does Startup Weekend EDU Work?Pitch an

    Idea (optional)

    Speaker &Networking

    Form Teams

    Get to Work

    Customer Development

    Idea Validation

    Work Work

    BuildPrototype

    CoffeeWork

    PrepareFinal Pitch

    Practice, practice, practice

    Pitch to Judges

    Advice from experienced mentors, facilitated processes & useful tools

    FRI

    SAT

    SUN

    PresenterPresentation NotesAfter introducing some frameworks and principlesLets talk about how the model lives in a practical sense

    If you were a participant at SWEDU, heres what you would experience

    Just from looking at this, what are your first thoughts?Whirlwind, messy, adrenaline, risk

  • Images courtesy of Victor Panlilio victorpanlilio.500px.com/

    PresenterPresentation NotesImages first 5 slidesThen Ill ask what you noticed about:-environment-people-activities

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  • PresenterPresentation NotesSam Hester, Graphic Recording ArtistLive while all 10 final pitches were being presented to the judges

  • mages courtesy of ictor Panlilio victorpanlilio.500px.com/

    PresenterPresentation NotesWhat did you notice?People, environment, activities

    People participants, mentors, facilitatorsJohanna, Lauren, Rami, Tom, Pat, Cassy, Robin, Priya

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    PresenterPresentation NotesYou may think that this is how our experiment happened:Mutually interested, Seth Godins Ship It JournalStartup Weekend Womens Invited 4 educators next oneFirst experiment YYCSecond experiment YEG

    Simple to think this way. But reality, leads to deeper questions - networks, interactions and ideas come together, change, and move

    Heres actually how it all happened:Yes, five major milestones of how we got there, but the rest is very important and is one aspect of entrepreneurial education that we would like to study next. Here it goes:Elements that are of note near the beginning of this journeyEdcamp (sat)Ship-ItEdInnovationISTEProvincial directionsConnected, diversified perspectives, diversified people, diversified experiencesPeople heres how they interacted with these elementsStartups, educators, students, accelerators, mentors, communityStart seeing people in multiple venuesBegin mixing diverse people and bringing them into each communityWhats come from itCBE Comprehensive School Health System LeadSpeakoutStudent and staff empowerment, stronger and more supportive startupsAlso interesting to note how we brought our perspectives together sometimes individually, sometimes with other educators, and sometimes togetherNext stepsThis entire process points to informal formative researchConstant circling backLearning and incorporating new knowledgeConnecting to new people, experiencesBuilding and interacting through the networkYou can also see Steven Johnsons work on great ideasTime and trialSeemingly unrelated groups and ideasCollisions between ideas and people across the networkRiskiest partsPersonal risk - SW Womens, SW MRUProfessional, personal, social - SWEDU YYC first time, and 2nd time SWEDU YEG totally different challenges

  • What Did We Observe?

    Diversity Valuing scalability & impact

    Value formentors & community

    Value of partnership

    Being good enough

    Authentic useof tech

    Agency &ownership

    Constraints supportcreativity, risk, action

    Appreciation of entrepreneurial

    approaches

    Growth forall who participate

    PresenterPresentation NotesNo particular orderOpportunities for further research

  • What Did People Tell Us?

    [Ive] never felt so vulnerable in a safe environment. Armageddon could be on the horizon and I know who I would choose to be in my bunker. Seriously.

    This experience confirmed [that] you don't have to wait to grow up and be something. You already are something.

    I saw the Matrix and I cannot go back to the pod again. I don't know whattomorrow holds, but I do know that I have control over it and I have value. I can contribute to a bigger part of thischanging world because I connected with people who already are.

    My day job is lacking luster after being part of this and I wish the weekend would never end. What if [this] environment was where a person could work every day? Imagine the possibilities. I know I am.

    PresenterPresentation NotesI would have loved to know the writers of these comments

    PersonalProfessionalMentors, coaches, judges, volunteers, participants students, educators, entrepreneurs

    RiskOwnership and accountabilityMotivationChange

  • Strategies to Try

    Leverage constraints

    Make it realLearn to hypothesize

    Learn to test Learn to fail Focus on process

    Use the tools

    Connect withmentors &

    professionals

    PresenterPresentation NotesConstraints time, resources, expertiseValidation of ideas testing, failingProcess learn, build, measure, Lean Canvas 1-page business model that learns as you do not about planning it allMentorship, scaffolding, support, reflection, accepting risk

    Alive and well in project based learning, CTS, CTF, competencies

  • Whats Next?

    Building & FosteringResponsive, Participatory

    Networks

    Using EntrepreneurialThinking to Impact

    Educational Organizations

    DesigningEffective

    EntrepreneurialEducation for Students

    Opportunities for research: What kinds of entrepreneurship are desirable across Alberta? What kinds of entrepreneurship does the current curriculum support? What does effective entrepreneurial learning look like? Do something that supports entrepreneurial approaches in

    education (e.g. create an entrepreneurial curriculum)

    PresenterPresentation Notes3 key themes stood outOpportunities

  • Resources Startup Weekend EDU videos & info

    YYC Oct 2014 YEG Mar 2015

    Recommended resources The Lean Startup by Eric Ries Running Lean by Ash Maurya Seth Godins Ship-It Journal Lean Canvas 1-page business model Up Global and Education Entrepreneurs

    Access these slides bit.ly/canconnected15swedu

    Stephanie Chan

    Sherry Langland

    Angie Tarasoff

    @[email protected]

    @[email protected]

    @[email protected]

    PresenterPresentation NotesConnect with usLooking to offer additional opportunities in the fall

    http://www.up.co/communities/canada/calgary/startup-weekend/4292http://www.up.co/communities/canada/calgary/startup-weekend/4292https://leanstack.com/http://www.up.co/http://www.educationentrepreneurs.co/http://bit.ly/canconnected15swedu

    Bringing Entrepreneurial Spiritt Life ThroughOn the RosterWhat is Startup Weekend EDU?Startup Weekend By the NumbersWhats an Entrepreneur?Where Do Great Ideas Come From?Two Bits of Entrepreneurial ThinkingEntrepreneurial Thinking & Albertas Curricular DirectionsHow Does Startup Weekend EDU Work?Slide Number 10Slide Number 11Slide Number 12Slide Number 13Slide Number 14Slide Number 15Slide Number 16How Did Startup Weekend EDU Happen?What Did We Observe?What Did People Tell Us?Strategies to TryWhats Next?Resources