Slide 1: There's a dark little joke exchanged by educators with a dissident streak:

Slide 2: Rip Van Winkle awakens in the 21st century after a hundred- year snooze and is, of course, utterly bewildered by what he sees.

Slide 3: Men and women dash about, talking to small metal devices pinned to their ears. Young people sit at home on sofas, moving miniature athletes around on electronic screens.

Slide 4: Older folk defy death and disability with metronomes in their chests and with hips made of metal and plastic. Airports, hospitals, shopping malls--every place Rip goes just baffles him.

Slide 5: But when he finally walks into a schoolroom, the old man knows exactly where he is. "This is a school," he declares. "We used to have these back in 1907. Only now the blackboards are white."

Slide 6: Milton-Freewater, let’s have a discussion about the future of our schools…

Slide 7: Image: MattandBekah.com How can we design schools for a future that we can’t possibly predict?

Slide 8: School: Cass Technical High School, Detroit Image: DesignShare.com media centers?

Slide 9: music rooms? School: Celentano Museum Academy, New Haven, Connecticut Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 10: social areas? School: High Tech High International, San Diego, California Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 11: outdoor classrooms? School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, Utah Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 12: open ceilings? School: Celentano Museum Academy, New Haven, Connecticut Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 13: green spaces indoors? School: Universidad de Monterrey: Preparatoia Unidad Valle Alto, Monterrey, N.L., Mexico Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 14: creative architecture? School: Georgetown South Child Development and Community Center, Manassas, Virginia Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 15: early childhood education? School: Georgetown South Child Development and Community Center, Manassas, Virginia Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 16: no chairs? Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 17: auditoriums? School: New Saline High School, Saline Michigan Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 18: colors? School: Stittsville Public School, Stittsville, Ontario, Canada Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 19: School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com computer labs?

Slide 20: balconies? School: Gwinnett University Center, Lawrencevilla, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 21: School: Kennewick Elementary School Kennebunk, Maine Image: DesignShare.com display cases?

Slide 22: cave seating? School: St. Stephen’s School, Algester, Queensland, Australia Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 23: School: Gwinnett University Center, Lawrenceville, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com round buildings?

Slide 24: facilities open to the public? School: Little Village Lawndale High School, Chicago Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 25: galleries for student work? School: Galef Center for Fine Arts Los Angeles, California Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 26: flexible furniture? School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 27: School: Cary Grove High School, Cary, Illinois Image: DesignShare.com small group meeting spaces?

Slide 28: School: Pistorius-Schule, Herbrechtingen, Germany Image: DesignShare.com hallways as classroom spaces?

Slide 29: buildings on a hill? School: Hachoresch Elementary School, Zirchron Ya’acov, Israel Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 30: School: Three Mile Creek Elementary, Perry, Utah Image: DesignShare.com learning centers?

Slide 31: lobbies? School: West Haven Elementary School, West Haven, Utah Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 32: School: West Haven Elementary School, West Haven, Utah Image: DesignShare.com multipurpose rooms?

Slide 33: alternative sports? School: Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 34: School: La Cañada High School, California Image: DesignShare.com courtyards?

Slide 35: non-traditional angles? School: Perspectives Charter School, Chicago Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 36: School: Nus High School of Mathematics and Science, Singapore Image: DesignShare.com glass walls?

Slide 37: outdoor study areas? School: Chung Cheng High School, Singapore Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 38: School: Suzhou Singapore International School, Suzhou, China Image: DesignShare.com modern playgrounds?

Slide 39: School: Gwinnett University Center, Georgia Image: DesignShare.com rooftops?

Slide 40: School: Cambridge Media Arts School, Cambridge, Massachutsetts Image: DesignShare.com production studios?

Slide 41: collaboration areas? School: Alpine Prototype Middle School, Alpine/Lehi, Utah Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 42: School: Reim Elementary School, Israel Image: DesignShare.com skylights?

Slide 43: faculty work areas? School: Estrella Mountain Community College, Avondale, Arizona Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 44: classrooms on wheels? Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 45: School: Pistorius-Schule, Herbrechtingen, Germany Image: DesignShare.com exposed architecture?

Slide 46: greenhouses? School: IslandWood: A School in the Woods Bainbridge Island, Washington Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 47: School: Paschalisschool, The Hague, Netherlands Image: DesignShare.com incorporating old growth?

Slide 48: indoor play structures? School: Spruce Street Nursery School, Boston Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 49: cultural learning spaces? School: Bronx Charter School for the Arts Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 50: life-skills areas? School: Spruce Street Nursery School, Boston Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 51: fitness centers? School: Cass Technical High School, Detroit Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 52: School: Nan Hua Secondary School Singapore Image: DesignShare.com outdoor amphitheaters?

Slide 53: playgrounds as learning tools? School: PS 40 M and PS 33 M, Long Island City, New York Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 54: School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New York Image: DesignShare.com reading rooms?

Slide 55: reception desks? School: Keane Children’s Center/Charlestown Boys & Girls Club Charlestown, Massachusetts Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 56: School: Warren Skaaren Environmental Learning Center at Westcave Preserve Dripping Springs, Texas Image: DesignShare.com buildings as educational tools?

Slide 57: School: Romeo Engineering & Technology Center Romeo, Michigan Image: DesignShare.com science labs?

Slide 58: solar panels? School: Heritage Middle School, Wake Forest, North Carolina Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 59: School: Oakwell Park, Napoleon, Ohio Image: NapoleonOhio.cc sports fields?

Slide 60: technology in the hallways? School: Hackberry Elementary School, Frisco, Texas Image: DesignShare.com

Slide 61: School: PS1/Bergen School, New York, New York Image: DesignShare.com activity spaces?

Slide 62: School: Missouri Dept of Conservation Discovery Center Kansas City, Missouri Image: DesignShare.com ecology areas?

Slide 63: School: High Tech High International, San Diego, California Image: DesignShare.com conference rooms?

Slide 64: “We must be the change we wish to see in the world.” -Gandhi

Slide 65: Pictures © DesignShare.com Music © James Horner, Braveheart Presentation Matt Horne

Slide 66: be the change…