What would be the advantages of setting up classrooms as studios of practice? The first thing that comes to mind is the fact that Daniel Pink has told us in a Whole New Mind that test scores go up 11 points simply by redesigning classrooms to better designs. Classrooms as studios would hopefully be more attractive visually then our usual concrete boxes, but the biggest change would come in the pedagogy. More self selected projects, students working in longer blocks of concentrated time, changes made to assessment practices. Studios are busy places. Not noisy, out of control, anti - education and learning spaces, but busy, productive spaces with different activities going on; something that we often aren't used to in classrooms.
