Learning spaces seminar
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Tim Rudd, Futurelab
Learning Spaces Seminar
Learner voice, pupil engagementDesign as pedagogy – modelling new practice
Beyond Current Horizons Information landscape - “know more stuff about more stuff”
- gather, store, use, share more data
Importance of geography - both less and more important
Institutional boundaries - weakened & porous; info not tied to institution; blurring ‘work’ & ‘leisure’
Socio-technological trends – more communication, collaboration, content creation, social etc.
‘Digital natives’ grow up – over 50% pop. 50+ by 2030?; extended life expectancy; adult-child relationships changing
Working with machines – redefining intelligence; challenging dependencies
Discussion: Learning in the future
• How will we learn?
• Who with?
• When and what for?
• What skills and competencies?
• Spatial implications?
•Should a school/learning space be a learning experience in and of itself? Intelligent, interactive, engaging, stimulating?
•Should the space be open 24/7/365?
•Does this have implications for ‘footprint’? Everyone in the same place and at same time?
•Should the space be a whole community space? Should it be one of a number of learning satellites or hubs?
•Should learning be supported by a range of experts – remote, experts, communities of interest and practice?
•Will the role of expert and learner be transient and interchangeable?
•Should any space be flexible for any ‘type’ of class/grouping?
•Within the space should there be a range of different and flexible/re-configurable specific and generic learning spaces.
•Should emphasis be more on building learners capacities rather than on fixed content.
•Should learners be utilising more collaborative , communication and content creation tools? .
•Should locative portable and locative technologies be used to increase dynamism and the degree of learning, information and play spaces available?
•Should we first design – experimental or ‘pilot’ learning spaces? Places for risk taking and failure?
More from Futurelab:Resources/Publications:Thinking Space (workshop resource) www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/Handbook1570What if..? Reimagining learning spaces (Opening Education report)'Live-lab Academy': a hypothetical case study (Opening Education report)Reimagining outdoor learning spaces (handbook)Transforming schools for the future (provocation papers)Personalisation and Digital Technologies: (Opening Education Report)Fountaineers: Exploring the impact of whole-school co-design projects (project and case study reports)Learner Voice handbook (handbook)Learning spaces workshop cards (workshop resource):http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/ideas/spaceworkshopcards.phpSchool redesign pack (workshop activities)http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/resource/schoolredesignpack.php Podcasts:Reimagining the design of outdoor learning and play spaces (January 2009)Reimagining teaching for the 21st century (October 2008)Building Schools for the Future (June 2008)
Web articles:A school for the 21st century - Kim Thomas (July 2009)All on board for an IKEA of learning spaces? - Merlin John (March 2009)The management of chaos: flexible learning in an inflexible system - Jim Fanning (February 2009)