Summary
"Disrupting Class" argues that disruptive innovation, a concept previously applied to business, can transform K-12 education by using technology to better serve students and bring schools into the 21st century. This approach can circumvent roadblocks to reform and lead to customized learning, making more students succeed. The book proposes that student-centric classrooms will increase demand for new technology, and computers must be disruptively deployed to every student.
The authors, drawing on neuroscience and real-life examples, show how to rethink intelligence, reevaluate the educational system, and reinvigorate learning to stay competitive academically, economically, and technologically. The book offers outside-the-box strategies and success stories for educational transformation, presented as a blueprint for change. A new chapter in the expanded edition applies Christensen's "Jobs to Be Done" theory to education.
Key concepts
- Disruptive innovation — A theory of change applied to education using technology to better serve students and overcome reform roadblocks.
- Customized learning — A strategy that will help more students succeed in school.
- Student-centric classrooms — Classrooms that will increase the demand for new technology.
- Jobs to Be Done theory — A concept from Christensen applied to education in an expanded edition of the book.
From the book
Title: Disrupting Class, Expanded Edition: How Disruptive Innovation Will Change the Way the World Learns by Clayton M. Christensen, Curtis W. Johnson, Michael B. Horn
Description: Clay Christensen's groundbreaking bestselling work in education now updated and expanded, including a new chapter on Christensen's seminal "Jobs to Be Done" theory applied to education. "Provocatively titled, Disrupting Class is just what America's K-12 education system needs--a well thought-through proposal for using technology to better serve students and bring our schools into the 21st Century. Unlike so many education 'reforms,' this is not small-bore stuff. For that reason alone, it's likely to be resisted by defenders of the status quo, even though it's necessary and right for our kids. We owe it to them to make sure this book isn't merely a terrific read; it must become a blueprint for educational transformation." —Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department…
Snippet: We owe it to them to make sure this book isn't merely a terrific read; it must become a blueprint for educational transformation." —Joel Klein, Chancellor of the New York City Department of Education "A brilliant teacher, Christensen ...