learning spaces
Classrooms of the Near Future: Environment Trumps Technology
By: Nick Friedman. As educators and Edleaders navigate the shift to student-centered models and make decisions on tools and strategies, many are still looking for examples and information on what these environments actually look like.
Can Classroom Furniture Improve Student Engagement?
By: Victoria Bergsagel. In next-gen schools, technology is ubiquitous, collaboration celebrated and movement encouraged. Multiple activities take place in adaptable environments.
Designing The Future, Starting with What We Know About Schools
By: Katherine Ward & Chris Given. What if reporting of data was not only easier to understand, but could be used to spark a conversation between communities and their schools?
Lighting the Path to Personalized Learning
A Getting Smart report, produced in partnership with Next Generation Learning Challenges, that tells the stories of schools across the country that are dedicated to creating a next gen learning environment that sets high expectations for college readiness, personalizes learning for all students, and is optimized for scale.
TrueSchool Engages EDesigners in Innovation Lab
TrueSchool convenes 135 educators from 40 schools in Chicago to create and implement transformational innovations in student learning for classrooms and schools.
Former Lumberyard Transformed to Blended Learning School
At Intrinsic Charter School's new Chicago campus, spaces for blended learning didn’t have to get retrofitted into a traditional school. A former lumberyard, was a much better starting point for a permanent school designed specifically for blended learning.
The Literary Revolver: An Interactive Structure from Studio 113
Frankly speaking, interactive learning structures work. By merging standards-based prompts, random selectiveness, a backchannel, improvisational acting, and overall creativity, Studio 113’s fairly new “Literary Revolver” places students on an engaging, challenging, and fun path to lesson mastery.
Bringing Schools Into the 21st Century
By: James Walker. Web based tools are creating market shifts like never before. As online schooling opens for all ages, learn how to figure out which online offerings are right for your school.
Classroom Design and the Learning Experience
Before I move into a new classroom, have I re-evaluated my classroom design and given serious contemplation to the learning experiences it perpetuates? Hmmm. Well, that time is now. And here is my plan.
10 Trends Driving the Future of Education
I believe the ultimate power of blended and online learning lies in the potential to transform the education system and enable higher levels of student-centered learning through competency-based approaches.