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What is a sustainable learning environment? | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. What is a sustainable learning environment? To understand sustainable learning environments it is important to understand how the physical environment contributes to a wider, more complex system. Indeed surely a building cannot be sustainable in isolation of its context and use? Conference held in Barcelona in October. Merely producing a building that meets a checklist of technical sustainability performance criteria is not enough. T...
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How can your school do things better? | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. How can your school do things better? There needs to be better evidence for the decisions we make when designing and creating learning environments. Much of what is done, is based on ‘evidence’ that is often not substantiated yet presented as if it were the final word. My friend Peter Lippman, in his book “ Evidence-based design for Primary and Secondary Schools. See my post: Understanding Complexity in Clever Classrooms. The aim of the ...
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October | 2014 | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. Creating Space to Re-imagine the Learning Environment. How can we better help teachers imagine the changes they need to make to improve their learning environment? Manipulating the space. What can we do here? If you believe, as I do, that effective design and use of space springs from engaging in meaningful dialogue, then we should be better at how and where we conduct these conversations, and indeed with whom. Continue reading →.
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August | 2014 | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. School: A Cohesive Agent for the Community. Is the importance of a school as an integral place for the community being neglected? I ask because in these times of frugal spending most of the discussion about schools focuses on ‘education’, yet surely the role of a school as a ‘cohesive agent’ in communities and society is just as important, if we are to survive as societies? Four things come to mind. Follow Blog via Email. Sorry, your blo...
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June | 2014 | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. Designing from Inside Out: Lessons from Sydney. Strong client leadership, a clear and well articulated innovative vision for education, and iconic architect Frank Gehry promises to do more than just raise the profile of the business school at University of Technology, Sydney. There are lessons for all of us. Engage, Enrich, Envision: Creating a Common Language for Learning Space. So often when designers meet clients and users of building...
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A Lever for Learning | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. A Lever for Learning. The quality of the physical learning environment can leverage good teaching but cannot replace poor teaching. Can we help teachers make better use of this lever? How can the physical learning environment become a lever for better teaching and learning? A few weeks ago I asked a group of educationalists how much training teachers get in manipulating space. My thinking was, well shouldn’t they? Enter your comment here.
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re – Imagine Space for Learning | by Alastair Blyth | Page 2
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. Creating Space to Re-imagine the Learning Environment. How can we better help teachers imagine the changes they need to make to improve their learning environment? Manipulating the space. What can we do here? If you believe, as I do, that effective design and use of space springs from engaging in meaningful dialogue, then we should be better at how and where we conduct these conversations, and indeed with whom. Continue reading →. Today ...
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Understanding Complexity in Clever Classrooms | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. Understanding Complexity in Clever Classrooms. Differences in the physical characteristics of classrooms explain 16% of the variation in learning progress over a year, says the research findings from the Holistic Evidence and Design (HEAD) project. Research from earlier stages of this 3 year project have already been published. But little has been said about another reason that this is important work. Light, temperature and air quality a...
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The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen! | re – Imagine Space for Learning
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Re – Imagine Space for Learning. This Blog: Imagine a world where…. The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen! The much lauded Fuji Kindergarten on the edge of Tokyo is certainly the best and most enchanting kindergarten that I have seen. It deserves the many acclamations it has had. In his very engaging TED talk just released, the architect Takaharu Tezuka gives his personal view. It is well worth watching! But there is more than that – it has spirit! What is the recipe? Is there one, even? You are comment...
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