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• We only think when confronted with a problem.

--John Dewey (1910)

• If we are to achieve things never before accomplished, we must employ methods never before attempted.

-- Francis Bacon (1561 – 1626)

• To be able to ask a question clearly is two-thirds of the way to getting it answered.

-- John Ruskin (1874)

The point…is to become more adept at inventing imaginary futures…to rethink the assumptions we use to understand the present.

…By increasing our capacity to improvise…, live with permanent ambiguity and novelty, [we are freed] to go beyond the predictable, to embrace complexity.

Riel Miller (UNESCO)Embracing Complexity and Using the Future. ETHOS. October 2011

Questions that got us to now

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

And your audacious questions are?

Studio PhysicsJack Wilson1994

The term was coined by RPI physicist Jack Wilson for a computer-based alternative to traditional physics instruction. Studio physics is popular within the PER community as an optimal environment for enhancing student learning.

It is characterized by the following:

- Takes place in a dedicated room (the ‘studio’) in which students sit at tables, rather than desks. Each table has one computer for every two or three students and space to do experiments.

- Has little or no formal lecture. - Emphasizes active learning through a wide variety of short experiments (often computer-based), pencil-and paper exercises and discussion questions. - Emphasizes small group learning & uses materials and methods derived from PER (physics education research).

Objectives of Studio Physics are to: integrate lab and theory, optimize student engagement, focus on collaborative learning, provide immediate feedback,, adapt to student knowledge state, shift locus of control from teacher to students and optimize integration of technology into the physics curriculum.

The studio classroom is an ideal arena for experiments on improving instruction. Consequently, there is great variety in the way that studio courses are conducted, and many new developments are likely.

Questions that got us to now…from the field

What does research tell us about how learning happens?

Questions that got us to now…from the field

How big can a learning space be?

Questions that got us to now…from the field

What do students want?

Georgia Tech East Commons

Questions that got us to now…from the field

How can we capitalize on technologies to enrich the learning experience?

University of Maryland College Park Art History

Questions that got us to now…from the field

What in the world did they have in mind when creating this space?

Questions that got us to now…from your experiences

? The most interesting question you

wrestled with in planning technology-rich learning spaces over the past five years?

What made it memorable?

THINKSHARE

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

WHAT DO WE WANT OUR

LEARNERS TO BECOME?

• Transdisciplinarians: Renaissance people for the digital age.

• Code writers, code readers, code breakers. • Ethical actors, deep thinkers, agile creators. • Lifelong learners and lifelong teachers. • Leaders with an ethic of work and a sense of play. • Entrepreneurs. • Analysts and creators of digital technologies.

Northern Kentucky University

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

WHAT EXPERIENCES MAKE

THAT BECOMING HAPPEN?

• Performing before peers, teachers, and an external audience.

• Competing in real space and real time. • Exploring visualization. • Working through project lifecycles with external clients. • Self-directing study and research. • Observing, sharing, and collaborating in informal groups.

Northern Kentucky University

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

WHAT SPACES ENABLE

THOSE EXPERIENCES?

• Digitorium: reconfigurable space, two story microtile rear-projection wall, opera box—problem workrooms.

• Collaboratories: decentered, clustered, mobile computing friendly spaces with write-on walls.

• Flex spaces: hangouts where students and faculty interact with the community, from middle school students to CEOs.

• Cybersecurity lab: a science lab where spigots of power and data replace water and gas, and racks of routers replace racks of chemicals.

• Commons: open, sunlit, multi-level community area surrounded by a panorama of eye-catching learning spaces.

Northern Kentucky University

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

HOW DO WE KNOW?

• Surge in enrollment in all programs (9 bachelors, 5 masters): 8% growth in the year since the building opened.

• Increase in external partners working with our students in the Center for Applied Informatics.

• Launch of a major startup accelerator (UpTech) with a large footprint in Griffin Hall.

• Sharp increase in press coverage and buzz.

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Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

What are societal expectations of what our learners are to become, be able to do?

AAC&U. Falling Short? College Learning and Career Success. http://www.aacu.org/leap/public-opinion-research/2015-survey-results

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future

What are we expecting our students to become, be able to do, be recognized for accomplishing?

Questions that we are beginning to embrace

How can every space be a learning space, for all learners on our campus?

Graph courtesy of Lord Aeck Sargent

Questions that are beginning to embrace the future…from your experiences

? The most interesting question you

and your community is now wrestling with in planning technology-rich learning spaces for the next five years?

THINKSHARE

Rhodes College Vantage Consulting Group

Penn State University Georgia Tech

Johns Hopkins Wall of Discovery

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgsuVicT3F0

http://eng.jhu.edu/wse/magazine-winter-13/item/wall-of-discovery/

Academic Impressions, 2014

Academic Impressions, 2014

Vantage Consulting Group

And your audacious questions are?

? Based on where you came from

and what you have learned and heard and thought about during this conference, what audacious question will you be bringing back to your community?

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