redesigning learning spaces

Redesigning Learning Spaces

Marsha Harris @marshamac74Jeff Morrison @morrisonedu

Trinity School

Shifting to an Idea Lab

About Trinity• 3’s-6th Grade

• 640 Students

• Mac Platform

• 1:1 Laptop program 5th and 6th Grades

• 1:1 Laptop/iPad Environment 4th Grade

• 1 Cart of iPad/Grade

• iPads and e-Readers in Media Center

• Tech Lab for 1st-4th and support for 5th and 6th

100 years of education reform...

What has changed? What still looks the same?

Our Education Past

Ok.. Ok… that was K-12.. Ok.. Ok… that was K-12.. University has surely University has surely

evolved…evolved…

Really?Really?

Consumers vs Producers of Information

Content Creators

How Might We Design for 21st Century Learning?

FlexibleFuture-proofed

Bold

Creative

Supportive

Motivate

We can change the “design” of any space,

but how does that change what happens in

the space?

How do we transform a learning experience?

“We spend a lot of time trying to change people. The thing to do is to

change the environment and people will change themselves.” Les Watson, Pro Vice-

Chancellor, Glasgow Caledonian University

The ChangeTeaching Methodology

Our Education Past

Our Education Future

Kinesthetic

Differentiation

Collaborative

Relevant

Removing the Teacher “Desk”

Idea Wall

•idea paint

•how do we use it as a collaborative space?

•how does it change instruction?

Idea PaintHow does something simple like this

change the way we teach?

The Idea Wall

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Professional Development

Outdoor Classrooms

Logs

Rock Circles

Amphitheatre

Stone Benches

Our Plans at Trinity

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What’s Next?

Modern technology affords students the ability to Modern technology affords students the ability to capture, develop, and publish their experiences capture, develop, and publish their experiences with the world at their level...with the world at their level...

We need challenge our students to move from We need challenge our students to move from using an iPad for this….using an iPad for this….

and turn it into this.....and turn it into this.....

This used to be common....This used to be common....

Teachers taught students to read and write and some of those students..

became ….became ….

And they helped end it.....And they helped end it.....

It’s our turn...

Let us teach our students to use this....

To help her...

Let us teach our students to use this....

To fight this...

Let us teach our students to use this....

To learn about one another...