High tech business development practices are entering the classroom! Using Steve Blank’s lean methodology, the National Science Foundation announced the I-corp L program, (where the L stands for Learning) that will help educators learn how to get innovative ideas adopted by a wider audience. This program is for STEM educators that teach science, technology, engineering and math from Kindergarten through graduate school. The NSF will provide 1.2 million, to 24 teams to learn how to bring innovative teaching strategy, technology and/or curriculum to a wider audience. Per Steve Blank “While the federal government and corporations have dumped a ton of money into STEM education research, a disappointing few of these brave new ideas have made it into practice. These classroom innovations often remain effectively a secret – unknown to most STEM educators or the research community at large.”
See the whole article “Getting Lean in Eduacationhttp://steveblank.com/2014/07/23/getting-lean-in-education-by-getting-out-of-the-classroom/
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