On our second week of the Innovation Academy we had a visit from Randy Scherer, a humanities teacher at High-Tech High who came from San Diego, California. All day long we innovated in many different ways. We began with interviews: first we practiced between us and once we went to interview other people I felt it was very different. My partner and I interviewed two teachers and a student and the answers were quite different. First, there are people that do not follow any type of news through social networks like Twitter and Facebook when others prefer to get their news from those sites because the news comes to them rather than they looking for it. Once we had our first interview done most of us noticed that there was an issue with the word "news" and I noticed this when I was interviewing a 10th grade student. When I asked him about news he was limited to answer my questions because his way of interpreting news was something different to what it really is. He realized by himself that maybe he did follow the news which was not necessarily in the newspaper or the news on TV so, he began to ask us: "Do you mean news like advertisements? Billboards? Magazines, etc?" And there was when I realized that the word news was not as appealing for some people than it did to others. From a teachers perspective I realized that they watch and follow news all the time wether it is online or on television or on a newspaper and mostly follow it to be informed. People have different ways of following their news but every one does it one way or another and different types of news wether it is sports, politics, economics, etc.
Later that day we came up with some problems that we see every day at school. This was my favorite part of the day because the way we came up with the problems and then solutions was very visual and we all collaborated with the possible solutions to solve our problems. One of these problems for example is homeroom. These ten minutes every morning could be more effective and interesting. The way we get our school news can be something completely different to the bulleting teachers read every morning and there are many ways we can do that. This was great because there might be other students who think the same and now we can give back to our community by solving a problem that we all share.
Later that day we came up with some problems that we see every day at school. This was my favorite part of the day because the way we came up with the problems and then solutions was very visual and we all collaborated with the possible solutions to solve our problems. One of these problems for example is homeroom. These ten minutes every morning could be more effective and interesting. The way we get our school news can be something completely different to the bulleting teachers read every morning and there are many ways we can do that. This was great because there might be other students who think the same and now we can give back to our community by solving a problem that we all share.