Innovation and practical use of knowledge

This paper will present the Innovation School Policy in the\nIcelandic school system and our new cross curriculum\nschool subject called ‘Innovation and practical use of\nknowledge’ in the National Curriculum as a part of the\nnew area for information technology and technological\neducation. The paper presents how innovation has\ndeveloped, its character, pedagogy, the ideology behind it, its\nethical aspect, practical applications and Icelands\ncooperation with other European countries around\nInnovation Education, as a new Minerva project, under\nthe name InnoEd. Over the next three years the European\nUnion (EU) is providing funding for setting up Innovation\nEducation as an open and distance learning (ODL) option\nfor European educational systems for both primary and\nsecondary schools and teacher training linking teacher\ntraining institutes. The project’s main aim is to build up a\ndatabased Internet software for European competition for\nprimary and secondary school students and to make possible\nresearch on children’s world of ideas.