Problem Solving Activity #1: Designing a Learning Space for Digital-Age Learners
- Goal # 1: Develop perspectives that move participants from a classroom-based model of teaching and learning to one that is rooted in the concept of a learning space.
- Goal # 2: Clarify participants' expectations for a learning space, and how such a space can support an expanded and relevant educational experience for digital-age students.
- Process - A collaborative conversation that challenges participants to:
- Critically examine their perceptions and biases about what a classroom is
- Extend their understanding of where learning can take place by encouraging participants to reflect on the dimensions of time, space, place, and device, and their association with learning, and with the development of a larger environment for learning (learning space)
- Examine how interactions occur between physical and digital learning spaces, and the affordances (quality of an environment that allows an individual to perform an action) of such interactions
- Evaluate how adding new dimensions to a learning space can alter the practice of all inhabitants, and in the process, encourage the development of a learning community.
- Reflect upon how the spaces we design inform (either unintentionally and intentionally, or both) our learners of the type of learning that is to take place there. In other words, consider how design informs the intent.
- Considerations - Does your learning space include these components?
- Physical space
- Digital space
- Spaces for teachers
- Spaces for students
- Spaces for everybody else
- The interaction between all spaces
- Spaces for formal learning
- Spaces for informal Learning
- Asynchronous opportunities for learning
- Synchronous opportunities for learning
- The flow of conversation, ideas, and expertise in
- The flow of conversation, ideas, and expertise out
- The development of increased understanding in traditional and digital contexts
- Rationale
- Form follows function. It seems obvious but is often forgotten: Teaching and learning should shape the building, not vice versa.
(The Third Teacher)
- The Internet is not so much a technology but a context in which to read, write, and communicate. (Leu et. al. 2009)
- Spaces are themselves agents for change. Changed spaces will change practice. (Oblinger 2006)
- Participants Solutions - Coming Soon
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