Don Orth @finddonorth @hillbrookilab Intentional Learning Spaces in this Generation ADE EdTechTeacher Instructor and Presenter Hillbrook School Director of Technology & Strategic Partnerships
How to redesign your classroom learning spaces
Jan 13, 2015
Hillbrook School has redesigned their learning spaces with intention.
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Don Orth @finddonorth @hillbrookilab
Intentional Learning Spaces in this Generation
ADE!EdTechTeacher !
! Instructor and Presenter !Hillbrook School!
! Director of Technology & !Strategic Partnerships
ContextTECHNOLOGY!
1:1 devices!Interactive!Personal !Mobile
SPACE!Multi-use spaces!
Computer labs obsolete?!
PEDAGOGY!Inquiry-based!
Student-led!Blended
SKILLS!Creativity!
Collaboration!Communication!Critical Thinking!
etc.!
Started by making a space that…
❖ Complimented the mobility of the iPad!
❖ Was multi-functional!
❖ Supported project-based learning and design!
❖ Was accessible to students!
❖ Allowed differentiation
Lowest Common Denominator
This is how it…was?
What was the INTENTION behind this environment?
WHY change
Is this how it is?❖ Sue Cain* - inclination to value
extroverts and collaboration!
❖ 21st Century Skills!
❖ Common Spaces vs. Classroom!
❖ All or nothing?
What are we trying to do?
*Quiet: The Power of Introverts
What is our INTENTION?
Environment is NOT neutral
❖ Even neutral isn’t neutral.!
❖ Everything has an impact whether you intend it or not.
How do you feel about…
iPads vs. Laptops (turn and talk)
Stand & Move
iPads vs. Laptops (follow)
Observations
Difference?
How can we be intentional
about learning environments?
Affordance TheoryEnvironment and the stuff in the environment support and encourage certain behaviors.!
❖ wheels afford movement!
❖ whiteboards (and pens) afford writing!
❖ rocking stools afford rocking!
❖ lighting affords certain moods
*Gibson
The Idea Lab An Agile Learning Space
A space that requires students and teachers to be intentional about environment.!!A place we pay attention to the affordance of things and space.
Whiteboard Walls & Tables
❖ Visible and Public platform!❖ Collaboration/shared!❖ Importance of work!❖ Collaboration!❖ Big thinking
A Public Platform
No Front of the Room
❖ Minimized hierarchy!❖ Student ownership of
prime space!❖ Student leadership
Students Lead
No Teacher Desk ❖ Minimized hierarchy!❖ Shared ownership
Hierarchy Shift
Room Reset❖ Intentional design!❖ Understanding space needs!❖ Student ownership!❖ Engagement before work starts!❖ Surprise or “spark”!❖ Movement
Movement with Intention!An interactive environment
Folding/Rolling Tables
❖ Rapid rearrangement and space clearance!
❖ Spark with new
Leverage Learning !Modalities
Movement/Energy ❖ New management!❖ Engaging work
*Under New Management
Rolling Whiteboards❖ Creation of sub spaces!❖ Public Platforms!❖ Leadership!❖ Ownership
Where do you need to be And how do you need to be
to be more engaged? To get inspired?
To get work done?
Configurations
Challenges/Questions❖ Only good for PBL?!
❖ Good for all kinds of teaching/learning formats?!
❖ Good for all subjects?!
❖ Distracting? Divergent vs convergent thinking?!
❖ Good for all kids?!
❖ Good for all age groups?!
❖ Boys vs. Girls?
Hack Your Space❖ Retrofit wheels on old tables!
❖ Tennis balls on chairs!
❖ Paint tables with Rustoleum whiteboard paint!
❖ Use shower boards as whiteboard walls!
❖ Consider effect of wall decorations!
❖ Consider “front” and teacher desk!
❖ Consider giving students choice!
❖ Consider what students own in your classroom!
❖ Consider your role as a teacher
*Make Space
Where might you start?
Before you build, create, design!
DECIDE…!
❖ What do you want learning to look like? !
❖ What kind of behavior and learning do you want to encourage or afford?!
❖ What kind of teaching do you want to happen?
Related Work
Learning Spaces Summit
Gathering of educators dedicated to redefining learning spaces!
San Francisco, October 9-11
Upcoming events
EdTechTeacherDon Orth!@finddonorth!@hillbrookilab
Other information
Hillbrook’s Next Steps
❖ Introduce iLab components and philosophy into 3 more classrooms!
❖ Original iLab is prototype MakeSpace!
❖ Collect data on impact on student with CPS and other schools!
❖ Learning Spaces Summit (Oct 9-11, 2014)
Creating Intentional Classrooms
❖ teacher desk position!
❖ font of room!
❖ decoration!
❖ what can students touch!
❖ choices!
❖ environment that sparks…
How do we collect data
❖ class observations!
❖ mini experiments!
❖ teacher and student surveys!
❖ video classes!
❖ edmodo group!
❖ movement tracking
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