12 Strategies (plus bonus) on hacking and redesigning spaces
Introduction:
Images of Classrooms from Around the World | Julian Germain, Classroom Portraits
Classroom Redesign: Hack, Prototype and Design
Classroom Redesign: Creating 21st Century Spaces
The Strategies:
1. Develop a new mindset and lens to see space.
The Third Teacher | 79 Ways You Can Use Design to Transform Teaching and Learning
The Third Teacher Flashcards | the basics, download the pdf of all 79 ideas
2. Immerse yourself in resources
Learning Spaces | Educause
Make Space | How to Set the Stage for Creative Collaboration
Active Learning Spaces | Steelcase
Hillbrook iLab | Bretford
Designing Spaces for Effective Learning: A Guide to 21st Century Space Design | JISC
Leading the Transition from Classroom to Learning Space | NLII White Paper
Remake Space Videos | The Third Teacher and Edutopia
Remake Your Class Part 1: Planning for a Collaborative Learning Environment
Remake Your Class Part 2: Building a Collaborative Learning Environment
Remake Your Class Part 3: Exploring a Collaborative Learning Environment
National (US) Summit on School Design | American Architecture Foundation
Active Learning Spaces Resources | K12 Blueprint
3. Focus on experience, not things
The Design Process: Getting Better at Creating Learning Spaces
Learning Space Toolkit | Roadmap, space types, technology, needs assessment, and integration
Active Learning Spaces | Steelcase (see page 9, Tips for Classrooms, great design ideas around pedagogy, technology, and space.)
4. Do a learning space inventory
5. Create a multidimensional space
The Story of St. Thomas Aquinas transition from classroom to studio
Agile Classroom (video) | Bretford
Space Age | David Jakes
6. Declutter
Heavily Decorated Classrooms Disrupt Attention and Learning in Young Children | Association for Psychological Science
7. Create a classroom that is writeable
8. Promote movement and activity
Bodies in Motion Brains in Motion | VS Furniture, how movement promotes both physical development and academic progress
9. Add color
10. Design with digital in mind
Think electrical power, think table surface area, think workflow between physical writeable space and digital capacity such as G-Suite
Digital Spaces and a New Ecology of Learning | David Jakes, see page 72
11. Get off site
Inoculate classroom spaces with ideas of how people use space beyond school.
12. Document, assess and share
A Guide Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learners | Learning Spaces Collaboratory
Assessment Rubric for Learning Spaces | Learning Spaces Collaboratory
Assessing Learning Spaces | Educause
The LSC Guide: Planning for Assessing 21st Century Spaces for 21st Century Learner | Comprehensive Guide to assessing spaces
13. What not to do:
Design intellectual spaces for learning, not a living room.
No drapes: ignite easily in a fire
No couches: health issues (lice) and posture, fire hazard
Furniture from a large Swedish manufacturer: not fired rated, no suitable for sustained classroom use.
Furniture Companies
Steelcase
Fleetwood
Paragon
Norva Nivel
Wall Treatments
General Resources:
Remake Your Class: 6 Steps to Get Started | Melanie Kahl
4 Lessons the Classroom Can Learn from the Design Studio | Steve Turkes and Melanie Kahl
8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom | David Bill
Learning Space Taxonomy from Learning Space Toolkit | NC State, BrightSpot and AECom
Lessons Learned | Steelcase
Innovation enters the Classroom | Steelcase
Wanna Improve Education? Demolish the Classrooms | Trung Le
Redesigning Education, Rethinking the School Corridor | Trung Le
Steelcase 360 | learning space research from SteelCase
FlexSpace | Flexible Learning Space Design Exchange
Herman Miller | Research from Herman Miller Furniture
Learning Space Taxonomy | visual organization of the components of learning spaces
Center for Teaching at Vanderbilt | Learning Spaces
Sketch Ideas | Space Oasis
Ink Factory Studio | awesome drawing
Space to Work and Learn | Andrew Harrison