Learning+Spaces

__** Designing/ Rethinking LearningSpaces: **__ The major question should be:
 * What does being well-educated mean in the 21st century? **

We teach in 6 x 5 grid of chairs facing front with a Promethean board with a projector and a teacher desk. What does this type of environment say to the students who walk in the door?

What do we want kids to know? How do we use the spaces to support them? Look at all the public and classroom spaces in a different light as far as how we are using them and how we COULD be using them for learning spaces.

2) What type of teaching/learning needs to be done?

Try to get flexible/moveable comfortable furniture. Whiteboard walls, light columns that you can write on. Read Johnson & Johnson : collaborative learning

Set up a model space in a common space/library/student center, etc and use it for a model and see how teachers and students use the space.

What % of school is used for control and movement of students? For example: look at how much space is used for hallways?

Google “learning street/ design share” Look at coffee houses – college common spaces, bookstores, etc. Why do people like to sit and work in collaborative ways in these type of environments.

Flickr – learning commons Google – The 3rd teacher Learning spaces by educause.com

Making non-traditional space into a non-traditional learning

Google Mimi Ito

Move away from supervising/management/controlling environment