Tim Rudd, Futurelab

Learning Spaces Seminar

Learner voice, pupil engagementDesign as pedagogy – modelling new practice

Beyond Current Horizons Information landscape - “know more stuff about more stuff”

- gather, store, use, share more data

Importance of geography - both less and more important

Institutional boundaries - weakened & porous; info not tied to institution; blurring ‘work’ & ‘leisure’

Socio-technological trends – more communication, collaboration, content creation, social etc.

‘Digital natives’ grow up – over 50% pop. 50+ by 2030?; extended life expectancy; adult-child relationships changing

Working with machines – redefining intelligence; challenging dependencies

Discussion: Learning in the future

• How will we learn?

• Who with?

• When and what for?

• What skills and competencies?

• Spatial implications?

•Should a school/learning space be a learning experience in and of itself? Intelligent, interactive, engaging, stimulating?

•Should the space be open 24/7/365?

•Does this have implications for ‘footprint’? Everyone in the same place and at same time?

•Should the space be a whole community space? Should it be one of a number of learning satellites or hubs?

•Should learning be supported by a range of experts – remote, experts, communities of interest and practice?

•Will the role of expert and learner be transient and interchangeable?

•Should any space be flexible for any ‘type’ of class/grouping?

•Within the space should there be a range of different and flexible/re-configurable specific and generic learning spaces.

•Should emphasis be more on building learners capacities rather than on fixed content.

•Should learners be utilising more collaborative , communication and content creation tools? .

•Should locative portable and locative technologies be used to increase dynamism and the degree of learning, information and play spaces available?

•Should we first design – experimental or ‘pilot’ learning spaces? Places for risk taking and failure?

More from Futurelab:Resources/Publications:Thinking Space (workshop resource) www.futurelab.org.uk/resources/publications-reports-articles/handbooks/Handbook1570What if..? Reimagining learning spaces (Opening Education report)'Live-lab Academy': a hypothetical case study (Opening Education report)Reimagining outdoor learning spaces (handbook)Transforming schools for the future (provocation papers)Personalisation and Digital Technologies: (Opening Education Report)Fountaineers: Exploring the impact of whole-school co-design projects (project and case study reports)Learner Voice handbook (handbook)Learning spaces workshop cards (workshop resource):http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/ideas/spaceworkshopcards.phpSchool redesign pack (workshop activities)http://www.visionmapper.org.uk/resource/schoolredesignpack.php Podcasts:Reimagining the design of outdoor learning and play spaces (January 2009)Reimagining teaching for the 21st century (October 2008)Building Schools for the Future (June 2008)

Web articles:A school for the 21st century - Kim Thomas (July 2009)All on board for an IKEA of learning spaces? - Merlin John (March 2009)The management of chaos: flexible learning in an inflexible system - Jim Fanning (February 2009)