Breakout 4 - ULearn15 - Thursday 8th October 2015

Breakout 4 - Space to Learn - Designing effective learning environments
Presenters: Mark Osborne

Venue: SKYCITY Convention Centre, Auckland

Learning objectives - Delegates will:

- Deepen their understanding of the components of an effective learning environment and apply this knowledge to their own context.

Notes:

MLE - Modern Learning Environments / ILE - Innovative Learning Environments

Why are we doing this?

Design an Innovative Learning Environment

Furniture is not the sum total of an environment!

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Knowledge is everywhere! - Mitre 10 Mega on YouTube

What's changed?

- Knowledge is a commodity - its free like air or water

- Any job that can be routined is rapidly being off shored or replaced by robots i.e. self-checkout, ATM, self-checkin

- What the world cares about is not what you know, but what you can do with what you know

Designing Effective Learning Environments

- Vision and values (Julia Atkin 1996)

- Effective Pedagogy (John Hattie)

- Inclusion (Designing for diversity in the learning environment)

Task: Draw an outline of a learning environment. It can be the you have or the one you wish you had.

Imagine great learning is taking place!
- What activities might be going on? i.e. working in groups, working alone, experimenting, peer tutoring, teacher tutorial (think about acoustics, furniture, access to resources)
- Affordances? - is it practical?

Rule of 3!
- never more than 3 walls
- No fewer than 3 points of focus
- 3 types of seating
- 3 acoustic zones

How would I evaluate my current classroom environment?
How do I know it is working?