69a learning journey
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Learning journeysM
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1 New ways of learning dictate a second generation
of school design replacing cells and bells
with collaborative learning studios
This report from Isis is a useful contribution to the quiet and though
revolution taking place in our learning spaces. Teachers and learne
creating spaces in their schools that go beyond and add to the trad
classroom. A better understanding of the needs of a variety of teac
learning styles is the driver of changes large and small.
Re-thinking education space has profound learning outcomes. Pro
understanding how learning spaces are changing is vital to our teac
profession. As Kenn Fisher identifies, the pedagogy of space is ke
continuing to make learning relevant, fun and comfortable. Frankly,
old schools will not properly serve the needs of a 21st century cur
or fast-changing learning technologies.
From Reggio Emilia in Italy to Maidstone in Kent, educators and de
are working together to unlock the real potential of our school build
Ty Goddard
British Council for School Environments
Forward
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The country is in the midst of a massive programme that could truly
transform education.As part of this agenda, people, organisations and who
communities are looking at the buildings in which learning takes place; the int
has an inevitable effect on how successful these buildings will be.
The University of Warwicks CETL2 has done away with tables (they have a sin
large horizontal surface on which to work, and its called the floor see page
Some new academies, on the other hand, have retained 1200mm x 600mm
rectangular tables each accommodating two students, and arranged these in
facing the front and in individual 56m2 classrooms.
The extent to which schools will adopt one extreme or the other (or somewhe
between) is a judgement each has to make individually. This booklet does not
advocate one over the other, it simply documents some of the current thinking
research and opinion so that these judgements become informed ones. We m
no apology, however, for looking at moving forward towards a second, inspirin
generation of learning environments.
Most of us went to dodgy,ugly schools, and it fires you up to think:
What if schools were inspiring?What if schools were what theyare not? What if they werent rubbish?
Thomas Heatherwick, Educational Architect
2 Centres for Excellence in Teaching and Learning funded by the Higher Education Funding Council for England.
Warwicks CETL is called The Reinvention Centre
Preface
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There is a revolution in the classroom of St Trinians scale. Building Schools for the
Future (started in 2005 with the aim of rebuilding or refurbishing every secondary school by
2020), together with the earlier City Technology Colleges and Academies programmes, has
re-ignited the debate in the UK about how schools should be designed. But while there is a
growing acceptance that we should not simply be building new old schools, how these
learning environments will manifest themselves remains very much to be seen.
In 2004 CABE3 and RIBA4 commissioned Professor Stephen Heppell (then of Ultralab,
Anglia Ruskin Universitys learning, technology and research centre) to conduct a research
project entitled Building Learning Futures.The results made grim reading: Many of the
schools that are being built, he concluded, are unsuited to the changing future pedagogy,
curriculum and learner expectations that we can already anticipate. They remain corridors
lined with classrooms, that, apart from the materials used and superficial styling employed,
simply reflect the teacher-at-the-front chalk and talk, didactic classrooms which have
remained, for the most part, unchanged since the Victorian schools that were built following
the first education act of 1870.
But society has moved on from the largely agricultural and manufacturing economy of the
last centuries to the information age, so it would be natural to conclude that what
students are taught and the environments they are taught in, should be different too.
He showsgreat originalitywhich must be
curbed at all
costs!From Peter Ustinovsschool report
Cells and bells? Primroseby Seymour Harr
3 Commission for Architecture and the Built Environment4 Royal Institute of British Architects
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As designers, questioning and challenging the status quo is the very stuff of our
profession. We thrive on the notion that if you always do what youve always done,
youll always get what youve always got5. But design is only one discipline that contributes
to, and therefore influences the process of creating the physical setting of a school.
Research conducted in New Zealand by ACNielsen6 questioning perceptions about how
the teaching environment affected the learning outcome, clearly demonstrated a link
between the physical space and its effectiveness in supporting education. Every principal
who took part, as well as 93% of teachers and 81% of pupils, believed the environment
had an effect. But when BCSE 7 looked at how well the school environment actually w
in the UK (May 2007), almost a third of all teachers (32%) said it prevented them from
teaching effectively.
In this booklet, we intentionally pose more questions than present answers. Our aim i
engage with teachers, builders, architects and cost consultants; in fact anyone involve
education, seeking to ensure the physical environment within a school truly supports
delivery of learning outcomes. Well present ideas too tangible pragmatic proposals
how these issues may be addressed in todays classrooms.
5 American life coach, writer and professional speaker Anthony J Mahavorick (pen name Anthony Robbins)6 Best Practice in School Design, ACNielsen, 2004 New Zealand7 British Council for School Environments
0 20% 40%-20% 60% 80% 100%
Teachers (n=139)
Students (n=263)
Principals (n=14)
Best Practice in School Design reportACNielsen
Respondents were asked: does the teaching environment affect the learning outcome?
Dont know/not answered
None at all
Limited extent/not very much impact
Some extent/impact
reasonable extent/quite a lot
Major extent/a lot
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For as long as there has been a formal education programme, people ha
questioned how and what we learn. How? In 1916 John Dewey commented
Nature has not adapted the young animal to the narrow desk, the crowded
curriculum, the silent absorption of facts. And what? John Holt commented,
Since we cant know what knowledge will be most needed in the future, it is
senseless to try to teach it in advance8. This viewpoint was echoed by Richard R
US Secretary of Education (1993-2001), when he predicted that the top ten
in demand jobs in 2010 didnt exist in 2004 so were preparing students for j
that dont exist yet, using technology that hasnt yet been invented, in order to so
problems that we dont even know are problems yet 9. It is increasingly importan
therefore, that we dont simply instil facts in children, but instead help them devel
strategies to learn. The fact that the Danes only have one word, lrer, for both
learning and teaching, perfectly illustrates this subtle shift in emphasis.
8 John Holt, 1964. The quotation continues: Instead, we should try to turn out people who love learning so much a
so well that they will be able to learn whatever needs to be learned.9 Microsoft Building Schools for the Future Conference 2007 held at the British Library, London 15th June 2007
Sung by Louis Armstrong
ABC Records 1967. Written by Bob Thiele, George David Weiss & George Douglas
Truth one The space should reflect the pedagogy
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Truth one The space should reflect the pedagogy
The traditional classroom design teacher at the front (the sage on the stage)
serried rows of rectangular tables accommodating fidgety pupils facing him
or her, remains schools primary building block. It bears more than a passing
resemblance to the church architecture (including, in many instances, tall arche
windows) on which it was based. While it is clearly ideal in supporting simple
lecture-style instruction, is okay for independent individual study and not bad fo
accommodating student presentation (although its formality does little to promo
any interaction) everything else it does, it does with a degree of compromise.
But there are numerous other pedagogies that have a place in todays
classroom. If we are to enable pupils to develop appropriate skills for the mode
world, schooling must embrace all sorts of other strategies, such as collaborati
and negotiation, and this should surely be supported by, rather than being in s
of, the physical setting of our schools. On top of this is an increasingly accepte
move towards presenting lessons so they support the different learning
preferences of individual students.
Dont giveme a book Miss,
Im a kinaesthetic
learner.Boy quoted by Professor Guy Claxton,during his keynote address at SETT05
University of Warwick Reinventio
by John Viner AssociatesPresident Kennedy
Humanities College
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10 Campfires in Cyberspace: Primordial Metaphors for Learning in the 21st Century, David D Thornburg, PhD, January 199611 Fielding/Nair International http://www.fieldingnair.com
4 Peer tutoring
5 Team collaborative work ingroups of two-six students
6 One-on-one learning withthe teacher
7 Project-based learning
8 Technology-based learning withmobile computers
9 Distance learning
10 Research via the Internet withwireless networking
11 Performance-based learning
12 Seminar-style instruction
13 Hands-on project-based learning
14 Naturalist learning
15 Social/emotional learning
16 Art-based learning
17 Storytelling (floor seating)
18 Team teaching
Educationalist, David Thornburg differentiated the ways students learn by using the
metaphors campfire, watering holeand cave. The learning community of the campfire
brought us in contact with experts, and that of the watering hole brought us in contact with
peers. There is one other primordial learning environment of great importance: the cave
where we came in contact with ourselves. 10
This concept has been expanded by American education consultants Randolph Fielding
and Prakash Nair11 who claim that there are 18 different learning modalities [sic], of which
they believe only the first two or three are supported in a traditional classroom model:
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They, as has Kenn Fisher12, proposed different environments to support different
learning styles. Recognising the relevance of this, Partnerships for Schools, the
body charged with delivering the BSF programme, now requires within its BSF
policy guideline, that teaching spaces can be adapted to different models of
curriculum delivery 13.
In some respects, none of this is new. It has long been recognised that specific
spaces need to be created for specific activities its just that these have typically
been reflected solely in practical physical requirements, such as laboratories,
workshops and sports facilities. So to put Fielding & Nairs observations into the
context of a typical British school, the traditional classroom falls down only in
respect of those aspects not covered elsewhere within the campus. If we accept
that there will always be specialist teaching areas, we now consider a generalKey
Stage 3/Key Stage 4 teaching space should be able to support ten learning styles,
of which five (below) are, to a lesser or greater extent, accommodated within many
traditional classrooms:
12 Research Fellow at University of South Australias School of Education Rubida http://www.rubida.net
http://www.sofweb.vic.edu.au/knowledgebank/pdfs//linking_pedagogy_and_space.pdf13 Partnerships for Schools, Building Schools for the Future Local Authority education vision policy guidelines for wave 2,
November 2004
Individual/independent studywith or without IT
One-to-one tutorial
Examination/test
Formal lectureswhole-class teaching
Presentation by students
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6 Collaboration withstructured groups of two-six
7 Seminar/discussion
8 Student/other performance
9 Hands-on experimentation/experience
10 Shared learning with peers
Not withstanding the fact that traditional classrooms can be improved, they hav
completely prevented teachers from imparting knowledge and inspiring the des
learn! If they had, there would have been no Stephen Hawking nor Harold Pinte
alone millions of well-educated, rounded individuals, many of whom contributed
the creation of the information age. (Harold Pinter, incidentally, attended Hackne
Downs School, later claimed to be one of the worst schools in the country 14, an
which, whilst in Special Measures, was closed to make way for Mossbourne
Community Academy.)
We are proposing, however, that if we make subtle changes, concentrating on
five learning styles (below) we consider to be less well supported, well have a g
effect on progressing classroom design.
14 The Guardian. Friday 23 February 2007
Truth one The space should reflect the pedagogyThe space should reflect the pedagogy Truth one
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Caravans pack quite a punch
when it comes to dual use of furniture.
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For todays teachers, creating appropriate environments to support diff
learning styles within the four walls of a classroom is difficult when all
youve got is 30 polypropylene chairs and 15 rectangular tables. Trapez
ones purportedly offer a degree of flexibility, although I remember someone, wh
faced with a meeting room and half a dozen such tables, likening the challenge
creating a horseshoe out of them to something off the Krypton Factor.
Commonsense tells us that a simple solution is the utilisation of furniture that c
be used in a number of different ways. A trip around any education exhibition,
as BETT or The Education Show, will demonstrate that there are countless fold
solutions for example, dining tables with integrated seats that can be folded t
side of a hall, allowing the space to be used for something else once the lunch
dishes have been cleared away. A darling of Orgatec 15 in 2004 was Seattable
single product that can be used either as a seat or a table, meaning an audienc
200 can be accommodated on the same items of furniture as 100 exam stude
(The solution has not been adopted to the extent one might have expected tho
as its large footprint means youll probably only get 180 chairs in a space requ
200.) There are tables that tip that may be used to define spaces when theyre
being used for writing, and those that fold computer monitors into the worksur
so that the same space can be used for IT and non-IT use. But despite the
availability of such solutions, a 1200mm x 600mm crush-bent, steel-framed tab
and a couple of polypropylene chairs often remains the default furnishing solut
15 The biannual international furniture fair held in Cologne
Truth two Flexible furniture, flexible space
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When Shin and Tomoko Azumi were researching classroom management as part of their
award-winning submission to the DfES and Design Council 16, they noticed that the
teachers were like performers, bringing entertainment into the classroom to try to maintain
pupils attention. Their design submission, Orbital, shown right, is intuitively mobile,
enabling students to move both their bodies and their desks, an observation that was the
inspiration of the much imitated concept of 360 learning.
16 Orbital workstation with Keen for DfES/Design Council Furniture for the Future competition 2002
Flexible furniture, flexible space Truth two Truth two Flexible furniture, flexible space
The teacherswere like performers,
bringing entertainmentinto the classroom
to try to maintain
pupils attention.
Shin Azumi
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Flexible furniture, flexible space Truth two Truth two Flexible furniture, flexible space
An important lesson learnt early on in
the development of furniture solutions for
offices was that to achieve maximum
flexibility, you needed the minimum number
of different components.When, in the 1980s, systems office
furniture manufacturers boasted countless
possible permutations and combinations,
Facilities Managers soon realised that in
order to avoid store rooms full to brimming
with redundant product after an office
layout change, they had to restrict their
product specification to a few well-chosen
components, rather than a little of
everything. A mistake would be to adopt
a similar child-in-a-sweetshop syndrome
with schools. Enormous care must
therefore be taken in determining an
appropriate kit of parts.
(an example is shown on page 32-34)
Hellerup Skole (School) to the north of Copenhagen is perhaps the best known
example of where this flexibility has been extended from just furniture to the sp
itself. This stems from the recognition that in order to make available a space th
supports the pedagogical approach employed at a particular moment requires
acceptance that you wont necessarily remain within the four walls of the classr
Hellerup is designed around nine home bases, each supporting between 75 an
100 pupils, and from these zones, students move to areas that support the
curriculum and selected teaching style for that lesson. A timetabling nightmare
may think, but this is avoided by a flexible approach in space demarcation from
staff. One problem with David Thornburgs campfire, watering hole and cave
metaphors mentioned before is that because they are place-names they freque
lead to distinct places being created for each, ignoring opportunities for the
same place to be used in different ways. As an example, a meeting table in a q
corner could be a perfect cave. It could also be somewhere that two students
collaborate thus a watering hole. For a small group (a very small group admitt
it could even be a campfire.
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henSiemensplcrelocateditsheadquarters restaurantin1999
andincorporatedacappuccinob
ar, itsawa46%reductioninb
ookingsofitscentralisedmeetingroomsuite. Thatsbecause
informalmeetingscouldnow takeplaceoveracoffee
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Having been heavily involved in the 1990s with changes to office planning
methodologies, we see enormous similarities in the developments in classroom
design, most prominently, those instigated then, by Frank Duffy 17, which also led
to a new vocabulary: hot-desking, hotelling and rightspace. Then it was spiralling
rents and increasing pressures for businesses to be lean that pushed designers and
architects to look at ways to reduce floorspace through dual use. Now, its not the
requirement to increase efficiency that is driving schools to look at dual use, but the
pragmatic consequence of seeking to provide different learning spaces within a fixed
envelope of space18. Its important though, now as then, that the vocabulary
becomes an intrinsic part of change management.
17 Architect Dr Francis Duffy CBE co-founder of international architecture and consultancy practice, DEGW, where he became known
for developing office-planning practices promoting the flexible use of space enabling, as he saw it, clients to make more efficient, more
effective, and more expressive use of [the] workspace18 BB82 gives a minimum area of 56m 2 for a general classroom accommodating 30 pupils + 8-11% float
As most spaces within a school will be
subject to a documented timetable, this
is our first descriptor timetabled
space. Then, taking it as read that its
inappropriate to have different defined
areas for each learning style (even if we
had the space!), it remains important to
be able to break learning time down into periods with a different tempo in orde
to meet the unscheduled aspects of a typical lesson. Non-timetabled areas adj
to timetabled spaces provide opportunities to break out, thus the second desc
democratic space. Finally social space areas in which students are free
roam, and potentially the greatest facilitator of social and emotional learning.
All of these spaces should accommodate more than one teaching style, and
between them accommodate all the styles that are required (we use a simple
matrix to cross-check this).
Flexible furniture, flexible space Truth two Truth two Flexible furniture, flexible space
Large Learning Base
Small Learning Base
Core Zone
Exploration Zone
Indi
Onetoone
Sharedlearningpeertope
Formallectures
Studentpresentation
Collaboration
Seminardiscussion
Performance
Handsonexperim
entation
Examination/test
The areas considered relplan on page 30
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19 The Reinvention Centre for Undergraduate Research Two-year evaluation July 2007
...and a suggestion The concept of the Learning Stud
and now the suggestion... The concept of the Learning StudioOnce you start to blur these boundaries between the formal and informal,
individual and group, the natural consequence is a learning studio, accommod
a number of classes (as does the example shown on page 30). Chris Gerry from
Cornwallis School in Maidstone (now Cornwallis Academy) has done this with New Li
Learning an open plan space that relies on earned autonomy. The environment cre
there has no walls between different learning spaces, although tiered stepseats give
space a sense of scale. Students self-police the room, showing a respect not neces
seen elsewhere. For example, they happily remove their shoes when they enter it, in t
same way that countless primary school children, as well as pupils of all ages inScandinavia and Canada, change into indoor shoes after break. We wanted to do th
Warwick], said Professor Mike Neary, now at the University of Lincoln, who was
responsible for commissioning Warwicks CETL. It has a great levelling effect.
It is important, however, that these projects are born out of clear pedagogic goals
rather than simply the desire for innovation. Questioning neoliberal education policies,
Warwick see their students as producers where by connecting research and
teaching, undergraduate students become productive collaborators in the research
culture of the department. 19
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Both The Marches School
Oswestry and the London
School of Economics & Po
Science are two establishm
that have proved youre no
reliant on a new build to cr
these spaces. Whilst LSE
created a suite of rooms within their existing property portfolio, Marches simply remov
the walls between existing classrooms to create an ICT suite accommodating 120 stu
without barriers between each. Disruptive students lose the opportunity for disorder
presented by a closed door, commented Marches deputy head, David OToole, whil
students intuitively learned to speak with an indoor voice meaning those in adjacent s
are not disturbed. Regrettably the same cannot be said of Norman Fosters new build
The Business Academy in Bexley, where open-plan classrooms are located along wal
that overlook a central atrium in one case accommodating a resistant-materials
workshop. Unable to see, and therefore be aware of students in neighbouring class
spaces, there are no indoor voices at Bexley, whilst inadequate sight lines prevent p
supervision, meaning this relatively early example of open-plan space will ultimately be
modified enclosed into classroomsby the Academy.
Arranging classroom clusters around a central communal space gives schools and colleges
the heart included in Genslers masterplan for Kents BSF programme. This approach is
similar to the streets seen in many FE colleges and universities, and originally seen in
corporate headquarters buildings, such as those for SmithKline Beecham and Royal Bank
of Scotland. Niels Torps design for British Airways headquarters, Waterside, opened in
1998, was an early exponent of the indoor street. The only route into the building from
the carpark is through the street, explained Kathy Tilney, who was Design Manager for
Watersides interior. That way it acts as the hub. I can sit in a caf in the street, and bump
into managers from different departments as they walk through.
Reggio Emilia schools, meanwhile, accepted the importance of the interior since their
establishment soon after WW2, often describing the school environment as the childs third
teacher. Reggio Emilia schools are also arranged around a central piazza, while the
classrooms have atelier workshop areas promoting experimentation and collaboration.
Fielding and Nair, in creating areas each with a different tempo, has ended with the unlikely
pairing of Jamie Oliver with Albert Einstein and Leonardo Da Vinci in naming alternative
zones: Einstein where creative reflection and inspired collaboration is encouraged;
Da Vinci supporting hands-on experimentation, and Oliver where we link food, nutrition and
health with participation nourishing mind, body and spirit 20.
21 Proverb (possibly African or Native American), used as the title of books by Hillary Clinton and Jane Cowen-Fletcher, the latte
on the Elementary Category of the African Studies Ass ociation Trull Foundation Childrens Book Award20 Master Classroom by Randolph Fielding, Jeffery Lackney and Prakash Nair http://www.edutopia.org/master-classroom
It takesa village to
raise a child.21
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In all projects there is a time when decisions are made. Frequently t
made at the beginning otherwise, we attest, the project cannot progress
as it moves on, so our knowledge increases to a maximum just when all
decisions have been made!
Amongst other things, we hope this booklet encourages you to pause for
thought: to realign the decisions you make with the knowledge that engag
in the process allows you to acquire.
In order for the infrastructure of a school to fully support learning, we belie
we need spaces that reflect different teaching and learning styles, requiring
flexible furniture solutions and a flexible approach to space fluidity in
determining demarcation lines; in essence, creating learning studios or
learning barns. There is an enormous body of research and opinion that
supports this approach.
These ideals, however, must be achievable within schools (many of which
already exist) and (specifically if it forms part of the BSF programme) shou
be deliverable within a pre-determined FFE budget 22 set by central govern
As manufacturers, we need to be pragmatic abou
reality this set of circumstances presents. But as
idealists, we should not be afraid to continue testi
boundaries. As the headmaster at Hellerup comm
The school building is never finished; experience
should rebuild it over time.
22 Partnerships for Schools http://www.p4s.org.uk/documents/FundingguidanceforBSFprojects2 007FINAL.doc (p14,
Conclusion
Decisions
Knowledg
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Time
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1.Less is moreLots of each, of a fewer different items ratherthan a few of each, of lots of different items.
2.Modularity/ReconfigurabilityIt should be more difficult to get it wrongthan to get it right. Consider dimensions caref
3.Multi-usePieces of furniture that perform differentfunctions will assist in transforming pedagogi
4.Right questionright timeThe wrong question at the wrong time willinevitably give you the wrong answer.
5.QualityDifferentiate between cost and value.A cheap chair will always be a cheap chair you can get them from petrol stations.
Key
Five Golden Rules
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Individual table and chair
Individual tables and chairs are a staple
of our kit of parts because students are
individuals. This isnt a cheap catch-
phrase its just that you cant work
individually very well with the more
common double tables their only
justification, from what we can see, is
cost (as opposed to value). Everything
you can do with double tables, you can
do with individual ones too and linked
with power/data totems, or all-day
power packs laptop computers can be
used to integrate IT.
Orbital is the ultimate individual table
and chair 23, as, on top of this flexibility, is
an intuitive fluidity promoting healthy
postural movement, and 360 learning.
23 See page 18
Group table
Despite this, a large group table has a
place specifically one which has
additional functionality (the tops of ours
tip, allowing them to be stowed away,
used as room dividers a dry-wipe
whiteboard even). How many people
does it accommodate? It depends on
the task and the individuals involved
two, perhaps for a large artwork project
or twelve debating an issue.
Group seat/bench
In the same way, a long bench
accommodates the right number of
students. Again, lots if theyre working
collaboratively (and the teacher can still
get them to budge up and perch on the
end to assist) or less if theyre not.
Our StepSeat adds a second tier of
seats behind so when you move the
table, the space can be used as a mini-
auditorium for performance-based
lessons, or simply start-of-the-lesson
instruction. Underneath theres storage,
for resources (including EarthWalk
laptop chargers), whilst StepSeat also
adds a sense of scale to open plan
learning studios.
IT Bench
Desktop PCs provide robust connectivity
in terms of power and data, and this,
together with performance requirements
dictated by some software packages
make them more appropriate, in some
instances, to laptops and tablet PCs.
Traditionally PCs have been
accommodated on worksurfaces that
are fixed to the perimeter of the
classroom. In this way, power and data
is easily available, whilst teachers can
see whats on the screen. Not so whats
on the childs face, even though you can
use software, now, to track what
everyone is getting up to on the
computer. Flipscreen is one way that
computers can be accommodated so
students face the front.
Informal seats
Upholstered stools and beanbags
even Puppy stools from Big Brother,
all break down barriers between in-
school and outside-of-school. As an
architect once commented, kids want
the mall, so we give them the mall.
If their only educational content is
assisting students to engage with the
environment, their inclusion in our kit
of parts is well-founded.
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