Learning in the 21st Century
A Prediction about Learning Spaces of the Future
Learning spaces of the future will better cater for a range of learning styles and group sizes, and include areas for both collaboration and independent learning areas. The traditional classroom groups based on age instead of academic abilities will phase out and learning spaces will open up and become more fluid. Learning spaces will be more flexible to accommodate both current and evolving pedagogies, future-proofed (able to be reconfigured), bold (look beyond tried and tested technologies and pedagogies), creative and multi-sensory to foster curiosity and imagination and inspire both students and teachers, and enterprising (each space capable of supporting different purposes).
Learning spaces will be designed to accommodate work with digital media and the increasing use of personal technology devices, such as iPads, and more able to adapt to educational technological change. The ‘virtual school’ will not replace the traditional school, but will replace some of it.
Learning spaces will connect school, home and community learning and support learning outside the boundaries of school buildings. They will encourage collaboration with not just individuals belonging to their school, but with those outside the school through for example, the use of online learning environments and excursions.
Learning spaces will be more sustainable, comfortable, and inviting, with more effective use of energy, more natural daylight and views, better ventilation, and made from sustainable materials.
The schools physical learning space will be the schools most important tool in their everyday and pedagogical development. Flexibility will be the key factor in determining whether the schools of the future will effectively support the learning of the future.
“Whatever visions of education we design our buildings around, we can be sure they will need to perform in a very different way in a few years time” (Miliband, as cited in Portelli, 2009, p. 20).
The following videos represent my visual prediction of what learning spaces of the future will look like. Future learning spaces in my opinion will look similar to those inside Vittra Telefonplan in Stockholm.
Learning spaces of the future will better cater for a range of learning styles and group sizes, and include areas for both collaboration and independent learning areas. The traditional classroom groups based on age instead of academic abilities will phase out and learning spaces will open up and become more fluid. Learning spaces will be more flexible to accommodate both current and evolving pedagogies, future-proofed (able to be reconfigured), bold (look beyond tried and tested technologies and pedagogies), creative and multi-sensory to foster curiosity and imagination and inspire both students and teachers, and enterprising (each space capable of supporting different purposes).
Learning spaces will be designed to accommodate work with digital media and the increasing use of personal technology devices, such as iPads, and more able to adapt to educational technological change. The ‘virtual school’ will not replace the traditional school, but will replace some of it.
Learning spaces will connect school, home and community learning and support learning outside the boundaries of school buildings. They will encourage collaboration with not just individuals belonging to their school, but with those outside the school through for example, the use of online learning environments and excursions.
Learning spaces will be more sustainable, comfortable, and inviting, with more effective use of energy, more natural daylight and views, better ventilation, and made from sustainable materials.
The schools physical learning space will be the schools most important tool in their everyday and pedagogical development. Flexibility will be the key factor in determining whether the schools of the future will effectively support the learning of the future.
“Whatever visions of education we design our buildings around, we can be sure they will need to perform in a very different way in a few years time” (Miliband, as cited in Portelli, 2009, p. 20).
The following videos represent my visual prediction of what learning spaces of the future will look like. Future learning spaces in my opinion will look similar to those inside Vittra Telefonplan in Stockholm.
(VideobrigadeFilm, 2011)
(WISEQatar, 2012)