Learning+Spaces

Learning Spaces in 2025
====Learning 2025 is dedicated to promoting learning spaces of the 21st century. This digital agmedia type="youtube" key="tahTKdEUAPk" height="311" width="554" align="right"e has brought about many changes in how students of the current digital age learn and so the learning spaces to accomodate these learners must change as well. Learning spaces are no longer confined and/or defined as a classroom with a teacher, 20-25 students, desks, chalkboards, and pencils with paper. Technology has shattered the traditional image of learning spaces and has reconfigured it into something almost limitless. New ideas and innovations are continuously broadening the opportunites for learning, basically making it available to anyone anywhere at anytime in any language to no avail. The concept of a learning space used to be synonymous with a classroom, but the learning spaces of today can go far beyond the walls of a classroom and the resources of a school.====

====Learning 2025's vision regarding Learing Spaces will continually evolve to incorporate new ideas, methds, and means. Currently, Learning 2025 believes that Group Learning, Anytime-Anywhere Learning, Mobile Learning, Virtual Worlds, and Personal Learning Networks/Environments are the future of Learning Spaces. These "spaces" allow learners to interact, collaboration, design, and make learning their own. Each of these types of Learning Spaces has many benefits and great learning potential. Please see the subpages for each type of Learning Space to learn more about them and how each relates to our vision.====

====media type="youtube" key="7cn6eWZHdXU" height="315" width="560" align="left"The video on the left is about the SMALLab learning spaces where students are physically interacting with the skills, content, and world around them. SMALLab stands for Situated Multimedia Arts Learning Lab. Students are engaged with their learning in a way that is not possible in most science classrooms. Learners of all ages can benefit from the hand on, technological learning associated with SMALLab. Teachers and students are entering a new way of learning science; it is longer concepts that are near impossible to recreate over and over again. Students enjoy learning from SMALLabs because it helps them better understand concepts that were previously introduced by their teachers. On student said "I like SMALLab because it helps me learn."====

====" [|A Space for Learning]" is a blog written by pamelamoran, an educator from Virginia. She discusses how the future of education is in the hands of teachers and administrators regarding learning spaces. It is up the leaders in education to choose the direction education is moving in, either: "lecture in a box or learning without bounds." Students deserve to be empowered by their teachers during their time together in learning spaces. She talks about a borrows phrase- [|Irresistable Learning], which "comes from a keen focus on what we do to build positive relationships, create relevant learning work, and design attainable challenges that engage learners’ interest, curiosity, and thought." Visit [] read more about her ideas and views on learning spaces of the future.====

media type="youtube" key="dpNN0hxPpvk" height="315" width="420" align="right" ====The video clip to the right is of a school in India, which has taken a considerable amount of time into planning the best school lay out for students to learn. The school has large common areas and many windows to limit the diconect of school to the rest of the world. Classrooms are designed for group work and collaboration. Materials within a classroom can be easily moved or removed to accomodate the learning currently going on. Most of the younger grade level classrooms have bathrooms within the room to give the at home feel. These bathrooms were constructed with the students in mind: smaller toliets and lower stinks so that the students can have a sense of independency in this role. There are also large computer lab areas where students can work together or individually with teacher supervision.====

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====Here is a floor plan/design of a 21st century school. Tons of space for collaboration and group work are built into the overall model. I think that a narrator may have made this clip more interesting, but as the video plays through each area you can see how wonderful a learning space it will be for students.====

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