Learning spaces presentation for DAA.

1. If we teach today’s students as we
taught yesterday’s, we rob them of
tomorrow.
- John Dewey

2. #mostinnovativeschoolintheworld

3. We are changing the way our students
are thinking, but we are not changing the
space where they do that thinking.
Let’s change what people expect school to be.
Let’s change MINDSET.

4. Google

5. co working space for startups
INNOV8 Hootsuite
Amazon - The Sphere
Google

6. co working space for startups INNOV8

7. Hootsuite

8. Amazon - The Sphere

9. the learning environment is “the third
teacher” that can either enhance the
kind of learning that optimizes our
students’ potential to respond
creatively and meaningfully to future
challenges or detract from it.
http://www.edugains.ca/resourcesLNS/Monographs/CapacityBuildingSeries/
CBS_ThirdTeacher.pdf

10. The Campfire The Campfire
The Campfire
The Campfire

11. The Watering Hole An informal place where peers can share
information and discoveries, acting as a both
learner and teacher. A place for collaborative
group time.
Space where people gather to learn from an
expert. Experts are teachers and students
empowered to share. A place for large group
gathering and sharing.
The Campfire
A private space where a student can think and
reflect. A place for independent work and
reflection.
The Office
A learning place for students who like to
oversee their environment. It provides
opportunities for standing or sitting. A place for
doing learning differently.
The Watchtower

12. The Watchtower
The Office
The Campfire/
Watering Hole
The Watering Hole
Another Campfire
The Office

13. https://www.edutopia.org/article/flexible-classrooms-research-scarce-promising
Flexible classrooms are successful because they go hand in hand
with a change in pedagogy.
That conclusion never fails to emerge in teacher-led discussions on Edutopia.
Flexible spaces, educators agree, alter the fundamental dynamics of
teaching and learning, giving students more control and responsibility,
improving academic engagement, and undermining the
typical face-forward orientation of the traditional learning environment.

14. Optimizing all of these physical characteristics of classrooms improved academic
performance in reading, writing, and mathematics by 16 percent.
The personalization of classrooms—including flexibility, which Barrett defined as
“student choice within the space”—accounted for a full quarter of that improvement.
A few insights surprised even the researchers.
Flexible, welcoming spaces had a startlingly large effect on learning in math—73
percent of the students’ progress that was attributed to classroom design was traced
back to flexibility and student ownership. The reasons are a mystery, but Barrett and
his team hazarded a guess: Academic subjects that provoke anxiety—in math, that’s
a known issue—are better addressed in classrooms that feel comfortable and familiar
to students.
THE BIG INSIGHT?
https://www.edutopia.org/article/flexible-classrooms-research-scarce-promising

15. Critical Thinking and Problem-Solving
Collaboration Across Networks and Leading by Influence
Agility and Adaptability
Initiative and Entrepreneurialism
Effective Oral and Written Communication
Accessing and Analyzing Information
Curiosity and Imagination
Tony Wagner
7 SKILLS STUDENTS MUST HAVE FOR FUTURE SUCCESS