Presentation to 2017 BIT conference regarding the Innovative Learning Environments facet of the DDSB Leveraging Digital initiative.

1. shift
Flexible, Collaborative &
Engaged Learning Spaces
Amanda Paterson:
@pateaman
Richard Reid:
@TLRichardReid

3. Source: OSLA, CSL, Ontario
Ministry of Education, Alice
BACKGROUND IDEAS, READING &
PHILOSOPHY

4. WHY?
"By changing the layout of the
room we are signaling to students
that something different is going
on in this place. To change their
mindset away from the teacher
giving them information, to
realizing their ideas and opinions
and knowledge matter."
~ Alice Keeler

8. Guiding
Principles of
Innovative
Learning SpacesVisible Learning
Flexibility & Fluidity
Collaboration
Personalization
Inviting curiosity and wonder
Self-efficacy

9. VISIBLE
LEARNING:
• learning is visible
• invites collaboration
• passive supervision
of common spaces

10. • Furniture and fixtures that are mobile
• Minimized mill-work
• Space design that encourages flexibility and fluidity
FLEXIBILITY

11. COLLABORATIO
N
• design principles that
encourage
• collaboration between
students
• Pedagogical practices
that support
• opportunities for
student partnering,
conferencing, and
teamwork

12. PERSONALIZATI
ON
• learning spaces adjust
to accommodate
learning needs
• learning environments
that encourage student
choice in seating
location and style

13. INVITING
CURIOSITY &
WONDER
• project-based learning
• environments that promote
creativity, wonder and
questioning
• leveraging digital learning
• real world connections

14. SELF-EFFICACY
• student work and artifacts displayed
• student voice encouraged and honored
• purposed planned environments where critical
thinking is stimulated and encouraged
• learning environments that allow students to have
deliberate thinking and reasoning
• environments that allow for talking, communicating
and sharing ideas
• classroom environments that promote confidence
in student learning and achievement

15. WHAT DO YOU SEE?
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16. What do you see?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility &
Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity
and wonder
• Self-efficacy

17. What do you see?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity and wonder
• Self-efficacy

18. What do you see?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity and wonder
• Self-efficacy

19. What do you see?
"I like the yoga mats because I can sit any way I want while
we are learning.
I don't have to sit in just a hard chair."
“You can find a comfortable way to sit."
"It give me exercise while
learning. I can stretch."
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity and
wonder
• Self-efficacy

20. What do you see?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity
and wonder
• Self-efficacy

21. What do you see?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity
and wonder
• Self-efficacy

22. What do you see and hear?
• Visible Learning
• Flexibility & Fluidity
• Collaboration
• Personalization
• Inviting curiosity and
wonder
• Self-efficacy
Insert Sunset Heights Video
here!

23. WHERE WE ARE
• Innovative Learning Environment Funding
• School visits and professional learning opportunities on Innovative
Learning Environments
• Continued system renovations of numerous learning environments
across the district
• Updates professional learning spaces and library spaces at our district
office to be used as a catalyst for change in the system/showroom

24. Making It Happen - Logistically-The
S’s
Student Voice
Space
Support
Stuff
Sustainability
Storage
Staffing
Special Education

25. Making It Happen – Organizationally &
Financially

26. INTEGRATING VIRTUAL
LEARNING SPACES

27. WHY?
"Technology should be at the point
of instruction and be as accessible
in learning as a pencil; it shouldn't
be an event. How many pencil labs
do you have in your school?"
~ George Couros

28. Chromebook
Initiative
Allows for ubiquitous
access
Equity amongst all
students
Removes barriers and
stigma from students in
special education
programs
Revised board technology
plan

29. WHERE WE ARE
Chromebooks are being deployed 1:1 to all Grade 7 and 10 students during the 2017-2018 school
year
Refresh of SEA devices underway for students with special needs across all grades and all schools
Grade 2-6 classroom technology refresh begins this year for 1/3 our elementary school classrooms
(Chromebooks)
Working with ELL to provide Chromebooks to over 100 secondary students
iPads to FDK and Grade 1 classrooms later this year
Refreshed devices for all Library Learning Commons (mobile)
Access to various digital information sources (streaming video, academic journals, encyclopedia
etc.)

30. shift: teaching, learning, thinking

31. WHY?
"The dawning digital era changes
fundamental aspects of
education. It changes the
traditional roles of teachers and
textbooks as the primary sources
of content knowledge. It changes
what it is possible for students to
do, as technology enables them
to discover, create and use
knowledge in the real world."
~ Michael Fullan

32. shift: teaching, learning, thinking

33. •Educational Technology Coaches (ETCs) are now an integral part of the
secondary school teams for the 9 pilot schools.
•ETCs are providing teaching and learning support to our teachers through
co-planning and co-teaching.
•Feedback from teachers in our pilot schools has overwhelmingly
indicated the importance of this type of support role to move teaching and
learning forward
•Evidence in this short time period since the ETCs have been in place has
shown that the teaching practices of staff have moved significantly in a
positive direction
WHERE WE ARE

34. How do spaces impact teaching and learning?
In what ways can spaces be made flexible to adapt to
learning needs?
How do you allow grassroots to flourish as individual
teachers and schools work through innovative spaces?
How should virtual spaces and physical innovative spaces
work in tandem to deepen learning?
How can you measure the impact of changes?
GUIDING & FUTURE QUESTIONS