redesigning learning spaces
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How can the design of a room, impact learning? What can you do to create an environment that allows for collaboration, creativity, and mobile technology? Trinity School has made a shift and redesigned their computer lab to promote a non-structured learning environment. Participants will come and see how these new design strategies have impacted teaching and learning at Trinity. Attendees will see how modular furniture, huddle areas and idea walls are utilized to promote collaboration with mobile technology.TRANSCRIPT
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...