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'Smart' Spaces Aren't Just for Classrooms Anymore. |
Describes the revolution in total school design promulgated in Building Information Modeling (BIM). The article discusses the learning that occurs in every school space, not just the classrooms, and... |
12/31/2009 |
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10 Current School Facility Features that are Obsolete |
Looks at school facility features that are obsolete today and yet are still in wide use: departmental organizations; learning in prescribed spaces; school corridors; traditional school libraries;... |
06/19/2012 |
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10 Ways to Create Schools Where Students Thrive |
Describes 10 innovative strategies for creating 21st century schools: engage all stakeholders in the design process; seek education partnerships and joint use; maximize sites well connected to the... |
09/30/2011 |
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15 Low-Cost Tips for School Interiors |
Interior designer Carla Remenschneider and architects Jeanne Jackson and Steven Shiver share their favorite low-cost techniques for brightening schools, including ideas for casework, colors,... |
02/01/2012 |
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2009 Open Architecture Challenge: Classroom. |
Presents over 300 school designs from teams made up of architects, students, and teachers, along with detail on the award winnders. The economical designs are intended developing and under-funded... |
12/31/2008 |
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21st Century Learning Environments. |
Proposes that learning environments must embrace a diverse and complex world of people, places, and ideas. While a tremendous amount of attention has been paid to standards, assessments, professional... |
12/31/2008 |
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21st Century Learning Labs for Students of all Abilities. |
Creative Learning Systems engages learners with fully-integrated classroom systems focused on STEM, technology exploration, alternative energy education and media production. |
05/31/2009 |
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21st Century Learning: A visit to the Georgia Department of Education’s Center for Classroom Innovation |
Describes a room setup with different spaces depending on the kinds of learning and collaboration taking place. The room also offers flexibility with some mobile furniture such as rolling chairs,... |
05/06/2012 |
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21st-Century Learning Q&A |
Twenty-five architects comment on the latest innovations in designing for future learning, as well as how design can support these trends. Questions answered include: What are the latest ideas/... |
10/31/2011 |
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A Classroom's Size Determines Its Capacity. |
Reviews the evolution in classroom capacity as educational programming has changed and offers a contemporary formula for determining a classroom's capacity based on its size and the furnishings... |
11/30/2007 |
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A Divisible Auditorium/Boulder City, Nevada. |
Presents specifications and operation of Boulder City's divisible auditorium. The planners designed a wedge-shaped seating area divided first by an audiovisual core bisecting the wide end of the... |
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A Giant Half Step. |
Reviews possibilities for contemporary classroom arrangement when a more traditional double-loaded corridor school design is desired. Size of classrooms, technology integration, and clustering... |
02/28/2007 |
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A Learning Curve. |
Discusses the importance of establishing a learning-technology plan when bringing electronic technology into classrooms. Conducting the classroom audit and synthesis phases of the plan are described... |
07/31/1999 |
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A Loft-y Idea for Learning |
A fourth-grade teacher describes educational uses of a loft he constructed in his classroom. After drafting a constitution, the children brainstormed possible uses as reading/writing nook, small-... |
10/31/1995 |
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A Movable Feast. |
Reviews concepts for continuously adaptable classroom design, noting that wireless technology liberates arrangement from being fixed around the technology, that the L-shaped classroom provides new... |
11/30/2007 |
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A Plan for Action or How To Change Old Schools into Open Space Schools Without Any Money! |
Presents notes from a workshop where three teams of architects and educators from across the country met to study three older school buildings and suggest economical ways for changing them into open... |
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A Room to Learn. Rethinking Classroom Environments. |
Based on the latest research about how children learn, this book helps teachers make their classrooms into creative spaces that facilitate teaching and learning. Geared toward showing teachers how to... |
05/31/2011 |
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A Survey Study of Elementary Classroom Seating Designs. |
This paper presents the results of a two-part study that investigated classroom seating design preferences among elementary classroom teachers. In part one, the researchers mapped and classified... |
12/31/2000 |
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A Tale of Two Classrooms. |
Offers a rationale for increasing attention to learning space design, providing an overview of relevant literature and highlighting implications for learning spaces suggested by modern learning... |
12/31/2001 |
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A User Assessment of Workspaces in Selected Music Education Computer Laboratories. |
A study of 120 students selected from the user populations of four music education computer laboratories was conducted to determine the applicability of current ergonomic and environmental design... |
04/30/1995 |
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A Variety of Voices: Innovative Learning Spaces Transform the Hartland-Lakeside School District |
Describes how the Hartland-Lakeside School District, Wisconsin went from typical classrooms to innovative spaces. Across the district, teachers, students and administrators have transformed their... |
05/30/2012 |
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ABCs of Successful Classroom Renovations. |
Asserts that successful classroom upgrades involve an examination of five areas: program fit within an existing building, technology utilization, regulatory compliance, building systems, and... |
07/31/2003 |
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Accessorizing the Classroom. |
Describes how, as is the case with the desks they purchase, schools should choose other furnishings such as computer workstations by balancing aesthetics, architects' recommendations, staff... |
05/31/2002 |
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Aces of Space. |
Profiles four schools that use technology, new design concepts, and flexible furnishings to reinvent their teaching spaces. Curved rooms, interconnected and networked electronic wall displays,... |
05/31/2011 |
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Acoustical Environment of School Buildings. |
Discusses results of a field study made of the acoustical environment of schools designed for increased flexibility to meet the spatial requirements of new teaching methods. Questionnaires were sent... |
12/31/1962 |
