Slides used to support community presentations around the nature, purpose and potential of modern learning environments.

1. MLE community presentation
What’s all this
about a
modern learning
environment?

2. SOME BIG QUESTIONS…
• What aspirations do you have for your children?
• What skills, knowledge, qualities will they require/
• What role school school play in this?

3. WHAT IS IMPORTANT TO LEARN…?
Using
language,
symbols
and text
Relating
to others
Thinking
Participating
and
contributingManaging
self

4. HOW IS IT IMPORTANT TO LEARN?
Student autonomy
and initiative
accepted and
encouraged.
Students engage in
dialogue with
teacher and each
other
Higher level thinking
is encouraged Class uses raw data,
primary sources,
physical and interactive
materials.
Knowledge and ideas emerge only from a
situation in which learners have to draw
them out of experiences that have
meaning and importance to them.
Teacher asks open-
ended questions
and allows wait
time for response
Students are
engaged in
experiences that
challenge
hypotheses
John Dewey – Constructivist Pedagogy, 1916

5. WHERE DOES LEARNING TAKE PLACE?
At home At my friend’s
house
At the library
At school

6. WHO DO I LEARN WITH?
With friends in
a group
At the
computer
On my own in
a quiet place
With my
teacher

7. UBIQUITY

8. • Picture here of iphone dispenser at the airport

10. CHALLENGE
Have we grasped how significantly
student access to technology has
changed their expectations as
learners?

11. Agency

12. AGENCY
• “The power to act”
• “Sense of ownership”
• “Executing and controlling
one’s own actions”
• “Self-efficacy”
• “Personalisation”

13. CHALLENGES
• Do our learners have to adapt to
our way of doing things, or do
we adapt to theirs?
• Are we focused on delivery – or
learning experience?

15. >1 Billion
(100 billion connections)
>500 Million
>150 Million
>14 million articles
>6 Billion images
Sources from service providers and also http://econsultancy.com
3.5 Billion views/day
70 hours/minute
>400 Million
Steve
Wheeler,
University
of
Plymouth,
2013
>170 Million(55 million posts per day)
SOCIAL MEDIA USE IN 2013

19. Remember this?
Desks in rows
Learning in unison
Teacher desk prominent
Blackboard as
focus of attention
Poor light, ventilation
Copy, read, absorb, rote…

20. AN EXPANDING VIEW OF LEARNING…
The current
education act and
policy is focused
almost exclusively
on this quadrant

21. A NEW WAY OF THINKING…
• Cave: for private concentration.
• Camp fire: group process.
• Watering hole: encounters and impulses.
• Sandpit: experimentation and practical work.
• Mountaintop: presentation of progress and
discoveries.
Source: Prakash Nair

22. CAVES: PRIVATE CONTEMPLATION

23. CAVES: PRIVATE CONTEMPLATION

24. CAVES: PRIVATE CONTEMPLATION

25. CAMPFIRE: GROUP PROCESSES

26. CAMPFIRE: GROUP PROCESSES

27. WATERING HOLE: ENCOUNTERS AND IMPULSES

28. WATERING HOLE: ENCOUNTERS AND IMPULSES

29. WATERING HOLE: ENCOUNTERS AND IMPULSES

30. WATERING HOLE: ENCOUNTERS AND IMPULSES

31. SANDPIT: EXPERIMENTATION

32. SANDPIT: EXPERIMENTATION

33. SANDPIT: EXPERIMENTATION

34. MOUNTAINTOP: PRESENTATION

35. MOUNTAINTOP: PRESENTATION

36. CHALLENGES
• How adequately do our learning
spaces cater for the type of
learning we are wanting our
children to experience?
• Do our current spaces work
against the things we’re trying
to achieve?

38. SCHOOL SPATIAL TYPOLOGIES
tradi;onal
school
plan
separate
classrooms
opening
off
corridors
large,
open
undifferen;ated
space
separate
classrooms
linked
to
shared
central
space
mul;-­‐op;on
space
made
up
of
many
diverse,
discrete
but
connected
spaces
/
seDngs
SCHOOL SPATIAL TYPOLOGIES
Source: Mary Featherstone

39. Source: Mary Featherstone

40. duration of activities?
documentation of activities?
what furniture, equipment, resources?
what services are required?
what surfaces are required?what floor, levels area?
ambience, climate control?
degree of enclosure?
Source: Mary Featherstone

42. Derek Wenmoth
Email: derek@core-ed.org
Blog: http://blog.core-ed.org/derek
Skype: <dwenmoth>