designing a path to change Ira David Socol Pamela R. Moran Albemarle County Public Schools Design 2015 Choice by Design
Nov 19, 2014
designing a path to change
Ira David Socol Pamela R. Moran
Albemarle County Public Schools
Design 2015Choice by Design
What must the User Interface be in education which will offer User Experiences which prepare our children to be the learners, citizens, friends, workers, inventors, parents for the mid- to late- 21st Century?
The Design Challenge
How do we design a school library "User Interface" that provide learners with the widest choice of opportunities and options in how and what they learn?
Library Design Challenge
Why Connect Space, Time, Learning?
The Way We Were ....
The Way We Were ....
The Way We Are ....
The Way We Are ....
Why ... mindful disorder...
allowing invention.allowing children to learn to•create environments•create learning•create knowledge
Choice
a product of developing faculty vision and empathy + space design
Basics
• Teaching Educators to "See" as Designers.
• Accessing Students' Vision.
• Learning from Outside Education.
• Continuous Design and Change.
• Leadership moving teachers to Pedagogical Entrepreneurship.
Choice
What we saw as essential...
• Comfort
• Collaboration
• Creation
• Communication
Comfort
no difference among ages. No one chooses school seating.
Collaborationopening spaces and time for the group work that is the essence of productivity in this century.
Creation
Environments fostering Contagious Creativity
Communication
continuous open connections near and far
What will you do differently?