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The paper argues that contemporary ideas of innovation are problematic for education by showing how educational change often depends on a marketable new product and adopters’ belief in radical transformation. 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The popularity of the overhead projector in schools during the 1960s is examined to show how education innovation relies on a novel new product for classrooms and a belief by adopters that the tool will radically change education. Educational Innovation movements masquerade consumerism as pedagogy. Current Canadian examples of innovation are examined to show how innovation has become a trendy buzzword. Innovation has connections to consumerism which problematizes the prevalent notion that innovation is the target that education must strive to achieve. Education must place effective pedagogy first and foremost and cannot get sidetracked in the race to become innovative.  \nKeywords: educational technology, digital pedagogy, educational innovation, educational change, educational leadership, 21st century education  \nNigel Crosscombe is a Social and Cultural Contexts MEd student in the Faculty of Education at Brock University. He is a former EdTech Intern at the Educational Innovation & Research Hub. Currently, he is as an Elementary Occasional Teacher with the Halton District School Board and Peel District School Board. His research interests focus on educational technology, digital pedagogy and educational change.  \n[Email: nc10xj@brocku.ca](Email: nc10xj@brocku.ca)  \nWith “innovare,” meaning to “renew” or “alter” as its Latin root,“innovation,” has come to mean a never-ending pursuit of novelty. Although the types of novelty have changed across history, the desire for newness remains constant. The Oxford English Dictionary (OED, 2011) lists the first use of innovation as occurring in John Brendes’The Historie of Quintus Curcius (1553), an English translation of a Roman history about Alexander the Great. Here, the novelty of innovation only refers to subtle changes to the status quo as,“the alteration of what is established by introducing new elements or forms”(OED). During the sixteenth century, innovation begins tobe applied to religious revolution, as in John Calvin’s influential The Institutes of the Christian Religion (1561), which laid the groundwork for the Protestant reformation. Calvin advocated religious innovation by critiquing the dominant Catholic theology and promoting an alternative Protestant form of worship. Not long after, Shakespeare used innovation to refer to political novelty, in the first performance of King Henry IV, Part 1 in 1600. Here, King Henry IV refers to the rebels as “fickle changelings and poor discontents, which gape and rub the elbow at the news of hurlyburly innovation”(5.1.77-79) . For Shakespeare, political innovation is an appealing but toxic form of political insurrection. Historically, religious and political innovations defined new movements signalling social and ideological change. In the twentieth century, the sense of innovation shifts and is increasingly used to describe “the act of introducing a product to the market”(OED) . Innovation becomes part of a capitalist sales pitch, one that requires a product rather than just an idea. Innovation retains a sense of novelty and change but these associations are now attached to a product that promises a revolutionary experience for purchasers. Within education, innovation becomes intertwined with the history of selling new technologies to schools.  \nThe history of how the overhead projector became a popular classroom technology is an excellent example of innovation being used to sell to schools. In Tools of American Mathematics Teaching, Peggy Aldrich Kidwell, Amy Ackerberg-Hastings, and David Lindsay Roberts (2008) discuss how overhead projectors were initially used in the United States during the late 1930s to show game scores in bowling alleys. In 1939, during the onset of the Second World War, overhead projector tech","cbCaihoj0Vf2vXyf","https://ap.wps.com/l/cbCaihoj0Vf2vXyf","pdf",252453,"English","# Abstract\n## Evolving meaning of innovation\n## Innovation in education and consumerism\n## Overhead projectors as a case study\n## Technology marketing and brand advocacy","[{\"question\":\"How does the paper describe the historical evolution of the meaning of innovation?\",\"answer\":\"It traces innovation from the Latin sense of “renew” or “alter” to later meanings tied to novelty, religious/political change, and finally to the market-oriented act of introducing products.\"},{\"question\":\"Why does the paper say contemporary “innovation” is problematic for education?\",\"answer\":\"It argues that educational innovation movements often treat consumerism as pedagogy, encouraging a race to appear innovative rather than focusing on effective pedagogy.\"},{\"question\":\"What does the paper identify as the two main components of educational innovation?\",\"answer\":\"Educational innovation is presented as relying on (1) a novel new product for classrooms and (2) adopters’ belief that the tool will radically change education.\"}]","Innovation | PDF",13]