Designing Learning Spaces for Instruction, not Control : June 2009 : THE Journal

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- Never before has it been more possible for educators to put instruction front and center of learning space design (i.e. physical classrooms and virtual spaces) than now.
- Never before has collaboration with students and peers and with the world been more possible than now. Yet we still educate with strict control of space. It seems ridiculous even to think of learning spaces as confined now that students can connect with the world and glean content from everywhere.
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- - As educators, we don't want to focus on developing test takers and rote repeaters of information; we aim to develop individuals who can think for themselves, find new information, work with others toward a unified goal, and utilize all resources available to them in their endeavors.
09 Jun 09

Ryan Bretag
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08 Jun 09

Ginger Thornton
An interesting article on classroom design for collaboration.
07 Jun 09

Rick Mickelson
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04 Jun 09

What is amazing to me is that most classrooms and even some virtual learning spaces are still designed with a type of learning in mind that is constrained, fixed and teacher-driven. That is, most classrooms still suffer from what I call "the fireplace" sy

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