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Learning can happen anywhere, but learning happens best when the learning experience is personalized for students and when students have a learning environment that inspires passion-based, authentic,and collaborative experiences. Workshop participants will apply research-based design principles to transform an ordinary classroom into a flexible, creative space with work zones to facilitate independent work, collaboration, problem solving, and creation of products. Bring your challenges and ideas and be ready to learn how you can create a new blueprint for your classroom.
Participants will:
- Explore how learning interest survey can be used to gather data about student needs
- Develop user profiles to assist in designing space and activities for a variety of learners
- Use rapid prototyping to create a classroom design that supports personalized learning
- Discuss ways to involve students in the redesign of space
- Learn how to design on a budget
Outline:
This workshop will be hands on with teams of teachers working together to create user profiles and design learning environments to support the needs of learners. Through a series of prototyping activities, participants will create a learning environment that supports the personalized learning experience that they want to see in their classroom.
- Research on designing space for personalized learning
- Creating user profiles using empathy mapping
- Developing a prototype for a classroom redesign to support personalized learning using maker materials
Research:
Make Space: How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration, Scott Doorley, John Wiley & Sons, 2012
Get Active: Reimaging Learning Spaces for Student Success, Dale Basye, Peggy Grant, Stefanie Hausman, Tod Johnston, ISTE Publication 2015
