Bit 2017 Innovative Spaces Presentation
- 1. shift Flexible, Collaborative & Engaged Learning Spaces Amanda Paterson: @pateaman Richard Reid: @TLRichardReid
- 3. Source: OSLA, CSL, Ontario Ministry of Education, Alice BACKGROUND IDEAS, READING & PHILOSOPHY
- 4. WHY? "By changing the layout of the room we are signaling to students that something different is going on in this place. To change their mindset away from the teacher giving them information, to realizing their ideas and opinions and knowledge matter." ~ Alice Keeler
- 8. Guiding Principles of Innovative Learning SpacesVisible Learning Flexibility & Fluidity Collaboration Personalization Inviting curiosity and wonder Self-efficacy
- 9. VISIBLE LEARNING: • learning is visible • invites collaboration • passive supervision of common spaces
- 10. • Furniture and fixtures that are mobile • Minimized mill-work • Space design that encourages flexibility and fluidity FLEXIBILITY
- 11. COLLABORATIO N • design principles that encourage • collaboration between students • Pedagogical practices that support • opportunities for student partnering, conferencing, and teamwork
- 12. PERSONALIZATI ON • learning spaces adjust to accommodate learning needs • learning environments that encourage student choice in seating location and style
- 13. INVITING CURIOSITY & WONDER • project-based learning • environments that promote creativity, wonder and questioning • leveraging digital learning • real world connections
- 14. SELF-EFFICACY • student work and artifacts displayed • student voice encouraged and honored • purposed planned environments where critical thinking is stimulated and encouraged • learning environments that allow students to have deliberate thinking and reasoning • environments that allow for talking, communicating and sharing ideas • classroom environments that promote confidence in student learning and achievement
- 15. WHAT DO YOU SEE? bit.ly/DDSBclassroomsBIT17
- 16. What do you see? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 17. What do you see? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 18. What do you see? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 19. What do you see? "I like the yoga mats because I can sit any way I want while we are learning. I don't have to sit in just a hard chair." “You can find a comfortable way to sit." "It give me exercise while learning. I can stretch." • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 20. What do you see? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 21. What do you see? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy
- 22. What do you see and hear? • Visible Learning • Flexibility & Fluidity • Collaboration • Personalization • Inviting curiosity and wonder • Self-efficacy Insert Sunset Heights Video here!
- 23. WHERE WE ARE • Innovative Learning Environment Funding • School visits and professional learning opportunities on Innovative Learning Environments • Continued system renovations of numerous learning environments across the district • Updates professional learning spaces and library spaces at our district office to be used as a catalyst for change in the system/showroom
- 24. Making It Happen - Logistically-The S’s Student Voice Space Support Stuff Sustainability Storage Staffing Special Education
- 25. Making It Happen – Organizationally & Financially
- 27. WHY? "Technology should be at the point of instruction and be as accessible in learning as a pencil; it shouldn't be an event. How many pencil labs do you have in your school?" ~ George Couros
- 28. Chromebook Initiative Allows for ubiquitous access Equity amongst all students Removes barriers and stigma from students in special education programs Revised board technology plan
- 29. WHERE WE ARE Chromebooks are being deployed 1:1 to all Grade 7 and 10 students during the 2017-2018 school year Refresh of SEA devices underway for students with special needs across all grades and all schools Grade 2-6 classroom technology refresh begins this year for 1/3 our elementary school classrooms (Chromebooks) Working with ELL to provide Chromebooks to over 100 secondary students iPads to FDK and Grade 1 classrooms later this year Refreshed devices for all Library Learning Commons (mobile) Access to various digital information sources (streaming video, academic journals, encyclopedia etc.)
- 30. shift: teaching, learning, thinking
- 31. WHY? "The dawning digital era changes fundamental aspects of education. It changes the traditional roles of teachers and textbooks as the primary sources of content knowledge. It changes what it is possible for students to do, as technology enables them to discover, create and use knowledge in the real world." ~ Michael Fullan
- 32. shift: teaching, learning, thinking
- 33. •Educational Technology Coaches (ETCs) are now an integral part of the secondary school teams for the 9 pilot schools. •ETCs are providing teaching and learning support to our teachers through co-planning and co-teaching. •Feedback from teachers in our pilot schools has overwhelmingly indicated the importance of this type of support role to move teaching and learning forward •Evidence in this short time period since the ETCs have been in place has shown that the teaching practices of staff have moved significantly in a positive direction WHERE WE ARE
- 34. How do spaces impact teaching and learning? In what ways can spaces be made flexible to adapt to learning needs? How do you allow grassroots to flourish as individual teachers and schools work through innovative spaces? How should virtual spaces and physical innovative spaces work in tandem to deepen learning? How can you measure the impact of changes? GUIDING & FUTURE QUESTIONS