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Fabulous learning spaces

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I have been keenly interested in the design of learning spaces for some time. Barbara Kavanagh is the principal of the school, and she is a visionary, seeing the school as one of many that will emerge in the next few years across the region. ASHS even has its own YouTube channel. Unported License.

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Reinventing learning spaces

Learning with e's

Too much noise, not enough light, too much heat or cold, uncomfortable seats, even poorly configured seating in a classroom can adversely affect learning. Teachers should be the architects of learning spaces (Wheeler, 2015, p 102). 2015) Learning with ''e''s: Educational theory and practice in the digital age.

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What do online educators need?

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Distance education in all its forms has been used for more than a century in education, leveraging the potential of each new technology as it emerges. by Steve Wheeler was written in Plymouth, England and is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 What do online educators need?

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Going to the wall

Learning with e's

In a previous post entitled Learning spaces of the third kind I outlined a project to establish an experimental learning space. It's called the eXSpace and will be a showcase for a range of new and emerging technologies, a place to study new pedagogies and a sandpit to try out new ideas and methods.

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A growing divide?

Learning with e's

In his blog on Learning Ecosystems, Daniel S. Christian claims that a new pedagogy is emerging that is directly driven by the upsurge in online activity. A third position is that traditional learning environments will change to meet the needs of the digital age, and that the flipped classroom is one example of how this will proceed.

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Digital is default

Learning with e's

The book was published in 1995, just as the Internet was beginning to invent for itself a space that previously had not existed. The following year I joined a ground breaking project in which my team set up digital learning spaces for businesses and individuals in hard-to-reach rural areas that until then had no infrastructure.

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Freedom to imagine

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Sir Ken Robinson has a lot to say about creativity and learning. One of his remarks is that imagination needs to emerge as creativity, as a natural process. Today, technology, particularly technology that is personal and portable, can provide similar forms of scaffolding for learning. Unported License.

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