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Where Classroom Design Meets Design Thinking

Edsurge

Selak, who works at the private pre-K through 8 Hillbrook School in the Bay Area, has worked for years on a similar goal, playing a major role in a continuous series of redesigns and remodels aimed at centering learning on student needs, as opposed to asking them to adapt to the space provided. A redesigned classroom at Hillbrook School.

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How to Embrace Unconventional Classroom Designs

EdTech Magazine

How to Embrace Unconventional Classroom Designs. Despite the abundant technology advances that have taken place over the past century, many classrooms still have something in common with the one-room schoolhouses of yore. When planning a modernized classroom, get buy-in from leadership, teachers, students and parents.

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Schools Sketch Out Modern Classrooms and Then Make Them a Reality

EdTech Magazine

When Harbor Beach High School was built five decades ago, the library was a hub of student activity, but in recent years, it had become a veritable ghost town. It also had no Wi-Fi, no study spaces and, often, no students. “It Students would never say, ‘I have work to do. I’ve got to use the library.’

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To Prepare Kids for Their Futures, Incorporate Technology Into Core Curriculum

Edsurge

In a study of 140,000 classrooms in K-12 schools across 39 states, more than half showed no evidence of students using technology to gather, evaluate, or use information for learning. And in nearly two-thirds of the classrooms, students didn’t appear to use technology to solve problems or work collaboratively.

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How K–12 IT Leaders Shepherd Post-Disaster Regrouping

EdTech Magazine

school forced the temporary relocation of students and school employees, and a subsequent regrouping to continue instruction that inspired the design of a new campus. It’s a stark contrast to the previous building’s traditional classrooms, tables and chairs. Our new school is focused on student-centered learning.

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How K–12 IT Leaders Shepherd Post-Disaster Regrouping

EdTech Magazine

school forced the temporary relocation of students and school employees, and a subsequent regrouping to continue instruction that inspired the design of a new campus. It’s a stark contrast to the previous building’s traditional classrooms, tables and chairs. Our new school is focused on student-centered learning.

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How K–12 IT Leaders Shepherd Post-Disaster Regrouping

EdTech Magazine

school forced the temporary relocation of students and school employees, and a subsequent regrouping to continue instruction that inspired the design of a new campus. It’s a stark contrast to the previous building’s traditional classrooms, tables and chairs. Our new school is focused on student-centered learning.