Learning+Environment

WOW! David Jakes and Ryan Bretag. These guys blew me away at the 2011 WEMTA conference as they talked about learning environments. Click their presentation below about building school spaces for collaboration and production! They are big supporters of students using their own devices in the learning process. The trick is to build the infrastructure to handle this type of learning. They used real world examples of a coffee shop, Google company's think stations and Apple Store's genius bar as conceptual frameworks for building collaborative learning environments in the school. Design elements that worked well: Comfortable seating, flexible room design with "work areas" that can move, Whiteboard walls that students can write on as they work (Idea paint), taking stock of what tools kids already have and supplementing with tech tools at school. School filtering at the web level matched age levels with more access as kids moved up through the grades. media type="custom" key="14128934" [] Here is another variation on the theme: media type="custom" key="8822228"

I need to learn more about QR codes, they work with cell phones and the art exhibit in the slide show used this code for viewers to link art work they were seeing with web descriptions about the work written by the artist.

They also suggested looking at the work of Mimi Ito and Trung Le. We are headed into the cell phone, student device world with these leaders. Mimi Ito: [] []