Primary school and middle school library design has adapted. No longer are the days of the traditional library furniture ensuring a stiff back the next morning. School libraries are now recognised as learning centres, growing and caring for the children that one day, will manage our society. The ideal library design will nurture this concept …
So many puzzle pieces work together when designing new learning spaces.
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Flexible seating in the classroom has become more and more popular over the years.
Learning is more than memorising facts and formulas; learning is a way of thinking and an approach to life.
A trend is growing in educational circles to eliminate the large, immovable teacher’s desk that has occupied the front of every classroom for centuries.
The physical learning environment has a powerful impact on students’ social and emotional landscape. Physical spaces should be intentionally designed to support academic achievement. Though educators and designers have a variety of frameworks available to guide their development of 21st century learning spaces, the works of futurist David Thornburg and his primordial archetypes are heralded by …
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School communities often seem eager to adopt new ways of teaching and learning but can’t always visualise what this would look like or how it would function after the change.
Imagine sitting in a room coloured entirely in red. Chances are high that you will feel agitated, perhaps with a little anger or hunger. Why? Because colour matters. Colour in the classroom certainly matters. Research demonstrates that specific colours influence the morale, emotions, behaviour, and performance of learners. Colour impacts students’ eye strain, degree of …
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There have been significant pedagogical developments in teaching & classroom layout during the last century, both in Australia and around the world.
What is Future Focused Learning? Although, the Future Focused Learning philosophy and variations of the ‘6 Cs’ theoretical framework has been a prominent pedagogical approach for the better part of a decade… Our iteration is adapted from Michael Fullan’s 2014 New Pedagogies for Deep Learning and offers new insight in how modern and flexible learning spaces can …
