Akron Ready Steps: Learning Spaces

Understanding Learning Spaces
David Jakes
Akron Ready Steps Symposium

Feed chronicle
Book Glutton – Treasure Island

Tara book
Content, Chat, and Discussion

Google Lit Trips – The Grapes of Wrath

Do you see the Internet (and Web 2.0) as “a context in which to read, write, and communicate?”
Leu et. al 2009

The concept of “Third Place”

On Demand…
Apple Genius Bar , OrangeFred

Anytime, Anyplace

MIT OpenCourseWare – Any Path

Second Life

Augmented Reality

Zooburst Augmented Reality

What will be possible for this child?
Image from Flickr: aaronfreimark

WebKinz

Poptropica

Virtual World Explosion
Data from http://www.kzero.co.uk

The global average amount of time spent on social networking sites in February 2010?
The global average amount of time spent on social networking sites in February 2010?
5.5 hours. Up 2 hours from last year. nielsen

Facebook is the #1 social network destination world-wide.
Facebook is the #1 social network destination world-wide.
2.8 billion visits, 21.9 individual visits in February 2010 alone and 500 million users nielsen, mashable

Kids…
73% text message
14% blog
8% use Twitter
38% share content, 21% remix
8-18, 2004-09, 39-66%
27% go online PEW Internet, Kaiser

How much of this is being done in school?

Mimi Ito
Digital Youth Project

There are two living channels for learning 1) an institutional channel, and 2) a peer-driven, interest-driven, and unregulated digital media channel.
Richard Halverson

We can add one dimension…

Content, Skills, and Dispositions

How can we frame the concept of learning space?

Spaces for Informal Interactions…

Spaces for Celebrating Learning…

Spaces that are agile…

Spaces that support the use of technology…

Spaces that support core skills…

…such as collaboration.

“How does the design of the learning space influence the perception of the type of teaching and learning about to take place?”

Fishbowl Interpretation

Etherpad (Titanpad) collaboration

A Cool Spot at the Illinois Math and Science Academy

Digital Space
synchronous
formal
Physical Space
(Classroom)
Learning Space
informal
Core Skills
Physical Space (Classroom)
asynchronous
New Context

Final thoughts….
Jakes.editme.com
Jakesonline.org

It’s time to rethink boundaries… classrooms, libraries, content, pedagogy, and access…

It’s time to rethink boundaries… classrooms, libraries, content, pedagogy and access…because learning can happen anywhere, anytime, and down any path.

Where are your edges?

Where are your edges? How can you create more?

Spaces are important for all learners…

Make no little plans…

How do we rethink the dimensions of schools?

How do we re-create and re-vision schools into learning spaces?

Akron Ready Steps: Learning Spaces

by David Jakes

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