Understanding Learning by Design

Maureen Noakes

What is the student voice saying?

• About• Understanding what Learning is?• Understanding what Design is?

• Understanding the student perspective offers a platform of how to appeal to students to express outwardly the values of respect for one self and others and own and others’ properties.

Literature Reading

Learning is being centred in rich ecologies of pedagogy and space.

Without a philosophical basis that gives meaning to the educational experience to be in a lived space, the identity of the space will not emerge.

Pose Focus questions to dig down into ways of thinking about issues.

• If we want to consider what is emerging from research about the Third Teacher, we need to create conditions in minds in order to take on the challenges of how to improve learning conditions. Getting to first base, a player has to make a hit to run there. When some of the major players (students) are not even getting up to play, they are not ready to play ball.

Is this the goal?

• “I am convinced that if the rate of change inside an organisation is less than the rate of change outside, the end is in sight.” It is highly likely the same principle can be applied to education. Failure to seize the day with innovation and creative thinking, and design over utility and function will result in education not only becoming even more irrelevant for some of our students but also for these students becoming less employable in a global market.

Putting ideas into practice

• Meeting places of architecture and education: challenging assumptions and developing a new narrative

• Anne Knock (2008) says, to: “look up, look around and decide if this ‘shape’ fits us and fulfils our purpose.”

• Learning walks and classroom visits • “Teachers are expected to make good practice

visits to other schools and disseminate their findings on their return. They undertake peer observations across the departments so that good practice is widely shared and inter-disciplinary collaboration is fostered.”

What do MS students think

• ‘Learning’ is? for different groups • About how we learn as individuals and socially?• About identifying ways of learning• About which way is best to - Teach other students ( e.g. cohort beneath) - problem solve- Brain storm- Writing a story; an email; formal letter- Conduct research

• First week of the new school year: set up groups and what/how/why the habits of learning will underpin learning for the year.

• What kinds of learning and teaching will take place?

• http://www.minnisjournals.com.au/educationtoday/article/The-Third-Teacher-683

• http://www.educate.ece.govt.nz/~/media/Educate/Files/Reference%20Downloads/oldECE/environmentsconference.pdf