Space for Learning
These notes available at www.happysteve.com under ‘Notes -> S.A. Lutheran Schools’
Intro:
From industrial paradigm to ???
Three (of many) disrupters:
- engagement economy (or ‘attention economy’)
- automation of learning resources
- hyperconnectedness / collaboration
Learning by Design
Design Elements:
Low Tech Watering Hole
IdeaPaint
Butcher's Paper
Giant Post It Notes
Windows, Doors, the Floor, etc
High Tech Watering Hole
Edmodo
Google Docs
Low Tech Campfire
Bloom's/Gardner's Matrix Grid & Stimulus Cards on Paper
High Tech Campfire
Khan Academy, Douchie's Biology Podcast, Learning Landscape, YouTube etc
Student Web Publishing - Glogster, Lulu.com, Weebly, Wordpress, Youtube etc - the students publish. See Real Audience Project and Tutorials Book publishing with LuLu.com, Internet Radio / Podcasting
Low Tech Cave
Whiteboard Slates
High Tech Cave
Blog
Other Design Elements:
Teacher Talk , 'Just in Times' or 'Pop Up' Sessions
Gamification / Tracking Systems
Combinations of Tech
IdeaPaint + Evernote
iPads + Evernote
Other Resources:
Interview with Pippa Yeoman
- space has ‘agency’
- as we move through we space we converse with it
- space as backdrop, container, or habitat
- empty space
Links:
Evernote + IdeaPaint http://blog.evernote.com/2012/08/09/evernote-and-ideapaint-creating-an-interactive-classroom-video/
iPads in Elementary School http://davidwees.com/content/ipad-apps-elementary-school
Evernote on iPads for Anastasis Academy - http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4744
IdeaPaint, Evernote, iPads:
Evernote + IdeaPaint http://blog.evernote.com/2012/08/09/evernote-and-ideapaint-creating-an-interactive-classroom-video/
iPads in Elementary School http://davidwees.com/content/ipad-apps-elementary-school
Evernote on iPads for Anastasis Academy - http://ilearntechnology.com/?p=4744
iPad apps for K to by Bloom's Taxonomy
Photographs/Video from Presentation
www.anarchyinlearning.com - footage and various links to do with NBCS.
Ken Robinson, Do Schools Kill Creativity
Interesting side track RE Bloom's Taxonomy & Flipped Learning
Audacious Class at NBCS - 180 kids in 1 space with 0 teachers for 6 hours.
Easter Eggs (Bonus Material!)
Finding possibilities IS a big dillemma! Use Twitter - http://search.twitter.com using these 'hashtags' (conventional search keywords).
London riots: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/interactive/2011/dec/07/london-riots-twitter
Anastasis Academy
- a good overview of Anastasis by founder Kelly Tenkely. Kelly's blog. Kelly's Twitter. Another blog by Kelly.
- teacher Michelle Baldwin's blog. Twitter.
- cofounder Matthew Quigley's blog. Twitter.
- other Anastasis blogs: http://teamanastasisbaldwin.edublogs.org/, http://1mscott.edublogs.org/