Frances Valintine, Chair and Founder of Mind Lab http://themindlab.com/ inspired us all with her presentation around her research and futurist ideas. She discussed what we will need for future skills and how technology will impact on the type of jobs for the future. Frances presented some very interesting data for future skills from:
Frances also discussed the history of 3D printing and how fast technology is changing...with many types of materials and structures being printed at speed.
*This was just a 'taste' of a very fascinating and informative experience from Frances presentation.
Learning Spaces - understanding what learning
spaces area? Do they have to be a building? Why do we associate these with a building? When a space is designed within a constraints of a building it however lends itself to a particular leadership style of learning?
Open plan classes in 1970 and got rid of
them? How do learning environments cater for all
students needs?
The structure peripheral things that can be
adaptable and we need to find out what our learning should look like before we
look at our spaces. When the building is built it imposes a particular learning
theory. It also influences your thought patterns and the way you think.
Flexible spaces that can be large or smaller for different activities.
Virtual and outside environments also to be included.
Our ideas for an outdoor learning space relating to a technology context:
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Outside kitchen pizza ovens
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Herb garden/fruit trees
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Hard materials
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Seating/picnic tables – time
out area/ outdoor learning spaces
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Wet area for dying
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Wood stumps for in a circle for
‘circle time’
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Shade sail
Our collaborative meme around learning spaces:
"Learning spaces have to be
flexible, movable, collaborative
and give choices to grow innovative
adventures. "
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