NEIT+2013+OpenSpace+3E


 * Digital and Physical Learning Spaces**

Facilitator: Laura, Saddle River Country Day

[|The Edgeless School: Design for Learning]

Showed video: ** How Quiet Helps at School (1953) **

What do we notice about difference between video espousing value of quiet and our current schools...
 * learning about silence; time for reflection
 * value of silence
 * silent library - non silent library now
 * faculty in progressive schools "in trouble" if classroom that quiet
 * collaboration
 * configuration of desks (rows vs…)

What workspace was this film preparing students for? How can schools design spaces that help prepare them for new realities? Tools for kids to use; to open up world As tools have changed, how have / could educational spaces change?

Educational Spaces:
 * -must be comfortable**
 * -must be flexible**
 * -must be powered**
 * -must be connected**

Some questions to consider:
 * Can these spaces be shared by grade levels? Subject areas?
 * Size of furniture?
 * Height of tools/furniture?
 * Places to display student work?
 * What do we do with informal learning spaces?
 * Libraries?
 * Where is the "front of the room?" (stand and deliver, chalk and talk)
 * Need a common language between designers and educators
 * TALK TO THE KIDS! Ask them to design spaces, what are their ideas?

Lighting! Florescent lights vs. sunlight vs. other types Standing & sitting - sitting kills you! Library - school within a library at Avenues (Open commons) digital & print collections, self-check out - tables are movable, open, flexible space for current print collection? vendor issues reduce shelf space allow for growth charging stations? plug station on floor? in wall? ceiling wheel? solar? chairs on wheels tables in middle of room w/out devices retractability green screen - create virtual space mac mini plus flatscreen to display student work & announcements - picasa slideshow

COMPUTER LAB DILEMMA public vs. private (looking at search history of desktops v. laptops) Collegiate lower school - kids prefer larger screen on desktops vs. netbooks screencasting for directions of a project - instruction using media Maker Space vs. FabLab Media Room/Art Spaces/Library OUTDOOR SPACES? who monitors?

Eric Sanders, Collegiate -lighting affecting energy level … healthy lighting -spaces where you can work standing and sitting

Alia Methven, Avenues: the World School -open commons space; self check out - challenge of power and charging and having it not be a mess - having spaces where kids can charge their own devices - fairly secure

Karyn Silverman, LRSH/Elizabeth Irwin -furniture that offers charging and can roll move - hard to find

Andy Cohen (Brooklyn Friends) -traditional computer lab; design software -computers in rows on sides -tables in middle - nice vehicle to pull kids away and into middle; ability to have a conversation around a table; can move them to create larger space -flexible, clean room -retractable green screen -chairs on wheels [|The Node Chair] Jonathan King, has 100+, holding up well, well-liked
 * dry erase/white board paint on tables
 * places to display digital and physical student work; at Brooklyn Friends run 16 digital signage displays - across three buildings, each run off a Mac mini, controlled by remote desktop (just a picasa slideshow; ticker program on some of them); assigned to different departments to update; art department does photograph work (which they also keep on a blog online); head of art department has good camera and a regular set up; also available online to access and manipulate a little more
 * Tracy, Dalton: *can capture the process vs. just the product; about the experience; interview the kids, etc.
 * at Brooklyn Friends all lower school teachers have cameras; middle and upper can access
 * tech integrators are curating work of teachers at each campus

Karyn nooks and crannies for display space just look with a different eye for tiny spots of where something could go The School at Columbia did a project where kids built prototypes, etc. and designed space/furniture How do we get their ideas? build into curriculum?

Eric Is the traditional computer lab a dinosaur?

Karyn If we only have small screens, what happens to kids doing media/graphic design work? Large screens still relevant for this. Provides appropriate space

Tracy Head of new lab at Dalton (as part of engineering/architectural program…has most sophisticated software needs) ran program off an air onto the desktop; whole department moving to monitors as docking station for airs informal poll; search history of macbook airs/desktops; airs were all non-academic related whereas desktop was academic-related and "things" people were more willing to see them doing; being more productive when it was public; using desktop when pressed for time and needed to get something done Is that dependent on what you have? Cultural?

Rebecca, Collegiate kids in lower school competing to get to desktops

Andy, difficulty of standing in front and giving instructions; don't read instructions and just go to work did instructions as screencast - all kids did it.

Tracy, also keep their attention by having them "do" along with teacher rather than deliver and then do Can the fab lab co-exist with traditional computer labs? Spaces? maker space vs. fab lab green screen production space

Karyn difficulty of sharing space; be very thoughtful about breaking up spaces when architecture dictates (ceramic dust on lego prototypes); positive result will be interdisciplinary use; really rich result outdoor spaces: Who is using them? What do you use them for? Who is monitoring them? glass a question for another time: designing virtual spaces that can take away some of the burden of our physical spaces?