Innovative Learning Environments's blogs
'Those who want to master the future must create it.' - Mark Pesce
After this exciting challenging ULearn keynote speaker who identified the power of sharing across our networks. Can we amplify our capability to solve our design problems - yes let’s share great ideas /designs being prototyped in our schools now – please contribute your images into this Google presentation – lets build a bank of exciting modern learning spaces. Collaborative presentation . Of course add any modern learning pedagogy tips too....
Kia ora,
For those of you who haven't already seen it, this is the item that screened on Campbell Live last month about MLEs. It's a nice recap of the CORE MLE Expo with a great student tour of Hingaia Peninsula School.
http://www.3news.co.nz/Bringing-the-Kiwi-classroom-into-the-digital-age/tabid/817/articleID/304224/Default.aspx
Prof Stephen Heppell is coming to NZ for CORE's Modern Learning Environments expo on 7-8th June in Christchurch. Here's his Pinterest site with a whole bunch of great links to ideas for modern learning spaces:
Enjoy!
Kia ora koutou,
Here's something that people might find useful: it's a white paper that some of us at CORE Education have written about Modern Learning Environments. It's designed as a think piece to spark debate, so if you've got comments or questions, post them here.
Would love to hear your feedback.
http://www.core-ed.org/thought-leadership/white-papers/modern-learning-environments
"Many of the modern learning environments being built today promote and support a range of pedagogies including delivering, applying, creating, communicating and decision-making. Modern learning environments support strengths-based teaching and can offer students and teachers flexibility, openness and access to resources. Providing teachers with an open, flexible learning environment can lead to the development of a robust, continuously improving community of practice."
http://www.jiscinfonet.ac.uk/infokits/learning-spaces/
"We take you on the journey from developing your vision and communicating it to others, through to evaluation of your new space. Our case studies have a wealth of practical hints and tips and these are supported by our Flickr image library which in itself is inspirational showing what is possible and so giving you suggestions as what you may implement in your space."
New post on Open Learning Spaces: As we get close to finalising the design for our school’s second stage build much of the attention is on the nature of the smaller spaces within. We know that our new hubs will accommodate three teachers and up to 90 learners but exactly what is the nature of the smaller spaces within? What size should they be? And should they have doors?
http://openlearningspaces.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/open-learning-spacesand-smaller-spaces.html
We have a 2 storey building with 8 classrooms- 5 of which ar eused as classes, 1 for library, 1 as wharenui, and 1 for small gropus/ reading recovery/ computer suite.
I wish to take us into 21st C environments accepting the constraints that ar eimposed on us- load bearing walls so can't open up between rooms etc.
Is there anywhere in the wider Wellington area that has used existing buildings (under similar constraints) to provide exciting environments for their students? I would love to visit- getting an overview of what is possible will help avaoid costly mistakes (I hope). Thanks
Great blog post on collaboration from Chris Bradbeer:
"Listening to teachers talk about teaching in a collaborative learning space – three teachers and up to 90 students as opposed to one teacher and 30 students - and one is struck by how much ‘we’ there is in the teacher voice."
http://openlearningspaces.blogspot.co.nz/2013/03/collaborative-teaching-emergence-of_3.html
