Jul 14, 2026 · 37 min · 10 segments
Propagating the adoption of CS educational innovations Taylor C, Spacco J, Bunde DP, et al. *Proceedings Companion of the 23rd Annual ACM Conference…
Jason TuoriHost
Chris JuneauHost
You know, if we do an overall background on things, technology and innovation are commonly used synonymously now in the modern era.

Technology is the scientific application of generating solutions in the applied practice.

You can have technology without innovation because we have plenty of technology that doesn't do anything for us.

Made for a purpose, pirated for a solution that didn't have the problem that it was made for.

But the the main models that I like that are really well described in this paper the Rogers Innovation model so the five stages of the adoption process and this is not this isn't like oh, this is how things should happen This is how they do happen.

So this just describes how innovation happens Regardless of we think this is best practice or not it starts with a knowledge stage which is effectively just knowing what what your current issue is and what you're trying to solve, and if there are already solutions that exist out there.

There's a persuasion phase where you're then effectively just weighing pros and cons of is it worth changing what we're doing or should we keep doing the same thing that we've been doing? There is the decision phase where once you've weighed those pros and cons, you're actually choosing to either adopt or reject it.

There's implementation, which is not yet getting to full adoption because you implement things, you see how they...

You see how they work in the real world, and then you either make some decisions afterwards, like, this will work with edits, this will work as is, or it'll be
desk-rejected.
Yeah, it's desk-rejected.

You know, if we do an overall background on things, technology and innovation are commonly used synonymously now in the modern era.

Technology is the scientific application of generating solutions in the applied practice.

You can have technology without innovation because we have plenty of technology that doesn't do anything for us.

Made for a purpose, pirated for a solution that didn't have the problem that it was made for.

But the the main models that I like that are really well described in this paper the Rogers Innovation model so the five stages of the adoption process and this is not this isn't like oh, this is how things should happen This is how they do happen.

So this just describes how innovation happens Regardless of we think this is best practice or not it starts with a knowledge stage which is effectively just knowing what what your current issue is and what you're trying to solve, and if there are already solutions that exist out there.

There's a persuasion phase where you're then effectively just weighing pros and cons of is it worth changing what we're doing or should we keep doing the same thing that we've been doing? There is the decision phase where once you've weighed those pros and cons, you're actually choosing to either adopt or reject it.

There's implementation, which is not yet getting to full adoption because you implement things, you see how they...

You see how they work in the real world, and then you either make some decisions afterwards, like, this will work with edits, this will work as is, or it'll be
desk-rejected.
Yeah, it's desk-rejected.
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