Classrooms need a design here is a link to get you started: http://www.atschool.org/materials/classroom/buildaclass/index.htm Before you read: Go to this document to see the real word document with the pictures. The pictures wouldn't come up on the wiki, so just look at them on the word. Design in the Classroom Imagine a classroom devoid of typical desks now replaced with tables, and instead of chalk and chalkboards students use clickers and laptops. Could this be the updated creative classroom of the future?
http://coe.nevada.edu/ckeeler/SSM/ Christy Keeler and her teaching method. In this picture, the different places are called other names then just a table, and a desk. Here Creativity is not limited to the four corners of a table, within the walls. Teachers now have to prepare students for jobs that do not exist yet. This is the basis of what Karl Fisch states in his “20/20” power point, and also in his “What if?” power point. http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/fischbowlpresentations.htm The classroom of the future has to include learning materials that will attempt to prepare students for these jobs. Design plays a crucial part in the students’ education. Textbooks only make students adhere to what is written from the viewpoints of the publishers in outdated texts. Some may still believe traditional methods of learning are more appropriate and have worked for centuries. Others believe change is a necessity and every child learns differently. The cookie cutter approach to learning doesn’t work anymore. The information age demands different avenues for learning. In order to prepare students for the conceptual age that Dan Pink describes in A Whole New Mind, Design must be a part of the educational system in order to incorporate significance of creativity in the classroom along with utility, and learning using both the right and left sides of the brain. Paragraph One Without Utility, the classroom does not function. Studies have shown that technology assisted instruction is more cost effective than traditional instruction. Laptops are portable, efficient, and a storehouse of information. They are also about ten pounds lighter than an average sized textbook. “…They (the textbooks) are just about over twenty pounds at the twelfth grade…” Says the California Department of Education. This is compared to the weight of laptops which can store any textbooks on CD. ”…8-pound(s)…” Darren Barefoot states on the topic of laptops.Any student can carry them, store their work easily, and have access to the Internet and all the info it contains as well as other reputable databases and news sources. There have been studies that show that, “…students who received microcomputer (laptops) assisted instruction scored significantly higher on a standard test of total mathematics achievement and on a test of computer literacy than did those who received conventional instruction,” JD Fletcher in “Microcomputer Assisted Instruction in the Classroom” from the American Educational Research Association. With computers students have a greater audience to communicate with, and their responsibility increases significantly because of the audience, as it is no longer just the teacher. That audience grows to be participants in the blogs, experts in the fields students are researching, politicians, authors, the limits are no longer confined to the four walls of a classroom. Clickers are used for test taking in a new creative way. Teachers receive instant feedback, and student’s excitement is increased along with participation. Learning progress is tailored to students’ needs, because the teacher can monitor their comprehension and tailor lessons accordingly. This results in more valuable instruction time. Desks are another item of the past. Tables promote group and cooperative learning, by having kids interact more. Creative shapes of tables also stimulate learning in place of traditional desks. Students are taught to work together, as in the real world. Kelly Almer (This is where the other picture is.) Laptops, tables, and clickers, are becoming a thing of the present, while textbooks and old fangled learning are vanishing. Education is becoming an expansion on more then writ memorization, but rather a design of ones own choosing. That’s where the utility and knowledge expansion come into play, by using these new technologies. Paragraph 2
The 20th century classroom cannot just revolve around utility of the classroom; it also has to incorporate creativity, to help append the student’s learning. What do kids like best? Playing, drawing, and creating. To supplement to a student’s learning a teacher has to allot time to create through education. At Mark Twain Elementary, while kids listen to a teacher read aloud, they sculpt and design with clay. Teachers have learned that this way of stimulating a child’s mind, keeps the kids concentrated on their design, instead of talking. This also helps kids to continue using their brains, even when they least think that they are learning. The clay sculpting stimulates a child’s brain, as they process the design of their sculpture.
Creativity isn’t limited to just down time of clay sculpting. Several years back there was a study done of how colors affect a person’s mood. Scientists researched that if a prison wall was painted a beige color, then inmates were more likely to cooperate under questioning, and stay calm. Could this same topic have an effect on students in a classroom? http://www.colormatters.com/ at this website, the researchers discusses how color affects humans. If there was a certain color that would keep the kids calm, then it may just change the face of learning. “Cool colors promote muscle relaxation and reduction in blood pressure -- especially good for calming students,” Says Tabitha Miller. http://www.tabithamiller.com/learning/color.htm</span> According to my own poll that I posed to my classmates, 3 out of four students believed they would focus in a classroom painted different colors. Now what does this tell the teachers? If kids believe they would focus better, then maybe that change should be in effect.
According to a second survey that I asked some of my classmates on what color they would prefer in a classroom, 2/3 of them answered with a color other than white.“I would choose yellow, because it is energetic and keeps people awake”.Now here was something. Many kids will admit to falling asleep in a class before, and a color that would keep them awake would help a lot. “I would do a different color for eachroom.” Maybe if kids were in a different colored classroom for every class, then they would have something to look forward to that just might change their attitudes about learning. When the child is involved, then they are more attentive, and more likely to succeed. And to think that it could start with the color of a classroom. Here is another answer,“Nothing dark because the school already seems to be pretty dark, but lighter shades. Yellows and some pretty tans and just unique colors to lighten the school mode. Something else than white.”Kids go through their classes that all look alike, and are rather plain, dull, and boring. If a paint color changed the way that kids looked at learning, and got them energetic and excited for school, then maybe they would do well in school, and not doing well in school wouldn’t be a problem anymore.
To see the complete survey, go to http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/2008/02/survey.html
And the second data color survey, go to http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/2008/02/color-poll.html Third Body Paragraph: Learning using both the right and left sides of the brain.
Besides color influencing education, learning that uses both the right and left sides of the brain is very important when it comes to education. By using both sides of the brain when learning, kids will have the ability to think creatively and analytically. Outsourcing is a business practice that hires analytically trained thinkers at cheaper rates from other world markets, which takes away jobs from the American Economy. Hiring right and left brained thinkers brings creativity and analytical thinking into the US job market. Right brained influence needs to be cultivated at a young age. Design should be taught as a necessity instead of an option. Design can be as modest as the charts that kids use to organize their writing with.
Design
As simple as this chart
Gives kids the opportunity to design their own story
Head start for the future
Using a flow chart or a web diagram, kids are given the opportunity to Design their own paper. No matter how small or insignificant this might seem, this is right brained thinking. And that is not the only right brained thinking that should be done in the classroom. Dioramas, art, and pictures are all things that should be compulsory in the classroom, to get kids a head start in creativity. Dioramas give a connection to the topic that the class is studying, and provide a right brained thinking session. Topic related art guides kids to make connections through learning, and through creativity. “…even children with inadequate language may be able to construct visual models of reality and represent their experiences nonverbally by drawing images of them…” Rawley Silver has discovered that creativity can help kids through right brain thinking. Pictures in notes help aid kids to easily see the big picture on a topic. Creativity can and should be found in many places, as it should especially be found in classrooms, where kids spend the majority of their time, preparing themselves for the future. Because of Automation and Outsourcing, future generations will need to know how to use their right and left brains effectively in order to survive in the workforce. Now is the time to prepare them, so they can have a successful future.
Concluding Paragraph Teachers now have to prepare students for jobs that do not even exist; new measures must be taken in order to make sure that those kids are successful in their futures. By using Design in the classroom, kids will be prone to gain careers that deal with the right side of the brain, and they will be stimulated with the new technology and scientific research in the classroom. By preparing future generations for the future, kids are also being prepared for the conceptual age, or the age “…in which mastery of abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls behind.” Flemming Funch in his book Revenge of the Right Brain.
That Daniel Pink also describes in A Whole New Mind. In the future Design will be a key point to help incorporate significance of creativity, utility, and learning using both the right and left sides of the brain. 'The world by and large has to be reinvented.' As Charles Handy quoted in ‘Beyond Certainty’
Textbook Weight in California: Analysis and Recommendations. California State Board of Education. California Department of Education, 2004. 1-25. 2 Mar. 2008 <http://www2.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/may04item21.pdf>.
Before you read: Go to this document to see the real word document with the pictures. The pictures wouldn't come up on the wiki, so just look at them on the word.
Design in the Classroom
Imagine a classroom devoid of typical desks now replaced with tables, and instead of chalk and chalkboards students use clickers and laptops. Could this be the updated creative classroom of the future?
http://coe.nevada.edu/ckeeler/SSM/ Christy Keeler and her teaching method.
In this picture, the different places are called other names then just a table, and a desk. Here Creativity is not limited to the four corners of a table, within the walls.
Teachers now have to prepare students for jobs that do not exist yet. This is the basis of what Karl Fisch states in his “20/20” power point, and also in his “What if?” power point. http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/fischbowlpresentations.htm
The classroom of the future has to include learning materials that will attempt to prepare students for these jobs. Design plays a crucial part in the students’ education. Textbooks only make students adhere to what is written from the viewpoints of the publishers in outdated texts. Some may still believe traditional methods of learning are more appropriate and have worked for centuries. Others believe change is a necessity and every child learns differently. The cookie cutter approach to learning doesn’t work anymore. The information age demands different avenues for learning.
In order to prepare students for the conceptual age that Dan Pink describes in A Whole New Mind, Design must be a part of the educational system in order to incorporate significance of creativity in the classroom along with utility, and learning using both the right and left sides of the brain.
Paragraph One
Without Utility, the classroom does not function. Studies have shown that technology assisted instruction is more cost effective than traditional instruction. Laptops are portable, efficient, and a storehouse of information. They are also about ten pounds lighter than an average sized textbook. “…They (the textbooks) are just about over twenty pounds at the twelfth grade…” Says the California Department of Education. This is compared to the weight of laptops which can store any textbooks on CD. ”… 8-pound(s)…” Darren Barefoot states on the topic of laptops. Any student can carry them, store their work easily, and have access to the Internet and all the info it contains as well as other reputable databases and news sources. There have been studies that show that, “…students who received microcomputer (laptops) assisted instruction scored significantly higher on a standard test of total mathematics achievement and on a test of computer literacy than did those who received conventional instruction,” JD Fletcher in “Microcomputer Assisted Instruction in the Classroom” from the American Educational Research Association. With computers students have a greater audience to communicate with, and their responsibility increases significantly because of the audience, as it is no longer just the teacher. That audience grows to be participants in the blogs, experts in the fields students are researching, politicians, authors, the limits are no longer confined to the four walls of a classroom.
Clickers are used for test taking in a new creative way. Teachers receive instant feedback, and student’s excitement is increased along with participation. Learning progress is tailored to students’ needs, because the teacher can monitor their comprehension and tailor lessons accordingly. This results in more valuable instruction time.
Desks are another item of the past. Tables promote group and cooperative learning, by having kids interact more. Creative shapes of tables also stimulate learning in place of traditional desks. Students are taught to work together, as in the real world.
Kelly Almer (This is where the other picture is.)
Laptops, tables, and clickers, are becoming a thing of the present, while textbooks and old fangled learning are vanishing. Education is becoming an expansion on more then writ memorization, but rather a design of ones own choosing. That’s where the utility and knowledge expansion come into play, by using these new technologies.
Paragraph 2
The 20th century classroom cannot just revolve around utility of the classroom; it also has to incorporate creativity, to help append the student’s learning. What do kids like best? Playing, drawing, and creating. To supplement to a student’s learning a teacher has to allot time to create through education. At Mark Twain Elementary, while kids listen to a teacher read aloud, they sculpt and design with clay. Teachers have learned that this way of stimulating a child’s mind, keeps the kids concentrated on their design, instead of talking. This also helps kids to continue using their brains, even when they least think that they are learning. The clay sculpting stimulates a child’s brain, as they process the design of their sculpture.
Creativity isn’t limited to just down time of clay sculpting. Several years back there was a study done of how colors affect a person’s mood. Scientists researched that if a prison wall was painted a beige color, then inmates were more likely to cooperate under questioning, and stay calm. Could this same topic have an effect on students in a classroom? http://www.colormatters.com/ at this website, the researchers discusses how color affects humans. If there was a certain color that would keep the kids calm, then it may just change the face of learning. “Cool colors promote muscle relaxation and reduction in blood pressure -- especially good for calming students,” Says Tabitha Miller. http://www.tabithamiller.com/learning/color.htm</span>
According to my own poll that I posed to my classmates, 3 out of four students believed they would focus in a classroom painted different colors. Now what does this tell the teachers? If kids believe they would focus better, then maybe that change should be in effect.
According to a second survey that I asked some of my classmates on what color they would prefer in a classroom, 2/3 of them answered with a color other than white. “I would choose yellow, because it is energetic and keeps people awake”. Now here was something. Many kids will admit to falling asleep in a class before, and a color that would keep them awake would help a lot. “I would do a different color for each room.” Maybe if kids were in a different colored classroom for every class, then they would have something to look forward to that just might change their attitudes about learning. When the child is involved, then they are more attentive, and more likely to succeed. And to think that it could start with the color of a classroom. Here is another answer, “Nothing dark because the school already seems to be pretty dark, but lighter shades. Yellows and some pretty tans and just unique colors to lighten the school mode. Something else than white.” Kids go through their classes that all look alike, and are rather plain, dull, and boring. If a paint color changed the way that kids looked at learning, and got them energetic and excited for school, then maybe they would do well in school, and not doing well in school wouldn’t be a problem anymore.
To see the complete survey, go to http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/2008/02/survey.html
And the second data color survey, go to
http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/2008/02/color-poll.html
Third Body Paragraph: Learning using both the right and left sides of the brain.
Besides color influencing education, learning that uses both the right and left sides of the brain is very important when it comes to education. By using both sides of the brain when learning, kids will have the ability to think creatively and analytically. Outsourcing is a business practice that hires analytically trained thinkers at cheaper rates from other world markets, which takes away jobs from the American Economy. Hiring right and left brained thinkers brings creativity and analytical thinking into the US job market. Right brained influence needs to be cultivated at a young age. Design should be taught as a necessity instead of an option. Design can be as modest as the charts that kids use to organize their writing with.
Using a flow chart or a web diagram, kids are given the opportunity to Design their own paper. No matter how small or insignificant this might seem, this is right brained thinking. And that is not the only right brained thinking that should be done in the classroom. Dioramas, art, and pictures are all things that should be compulsory in the classroom, to get kids a head start in creativity. Dioramas give a connection to the topic that the class is studying, and provide a right brained thinking session. Topic related art guides kids to make connections through learning, and through creativity. “…even children with inadequate language may be able to construct visual models of reality and represent their experiences nonverbally by drawing images of them…” Rawley Silver has discovered that creativity can help kids through right brain thinking. Pictures in notes help aid kids to easily see the big picture on a topic. Creativity can and should be found in many places, as it should especially be found in classrooms, where kids spend the majority of their time, preparing themselves for the future. Because of Automation and Outsourcing, future generations will need to know how to use their right and left brains effectively in order to survive in the workforce. Now is the time to prepare them, so they can have a successful future.
Concluding Paragraph
Teachers now have to prepare students for jobs that do not even exist; new measures must be taken in order to make sure that those kids are successful in their futures. By using Design in the classroom, kids will be prone to gain careers that deal with the right side of the brain, and they will be stimulated with the new technology and scientific research in the classroom. By preparing future generations for the future, kids are also being prepared for the conceptual age, or the age “…in which mastery of abilities that we've often overlooked and undervalued marks the fault line between who gets ahead and who falls behind.” Flemming Funch in his book Revenge of the Right Brain.
That Daniel Pink also describes in A Whole New Mind. In the future Design will be a key point to help incorporate significance of creativity, utility, and learning using both the right and left sides of the brain.
'The world by and large has to be reinvented.' As Charles Handy quoted in ‘Beyond Certainty’
Christy, Keeler. "Teaching Elementary School Social Studies." 2007. 20 Feb. 2008 <http://coe.nevada.edu/ckeeler/SSM/>.
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Hammonds, Bruce, and Wayne Morris. "Quotes to 'Re-Imagine' Schools for the 21stC." Famous Quotes: Educational Quotes for the 21st Century. Future Edge Publications. 25 Feb. 2008 <http://www.leading-learning.co.nz/famous-quotes.html>.
Karl, Fisch. "The Fischbowl Presentations." Littleton Public Schools. 2 Mar. 2008 <http://www.lps.k12.co.us/schools/arapahoe/fisch/fischbowlpresentations.htm
Kelly, Almer. Digital image. [Western Classroom]. 2005. Mark Twain Elementary. 2 Mar. 2008.
M, Cate, Melissa Z, and Morgan T, comps. Color Survey. 14 Feb. 2008 <http://smith9h0708.blogspot.com/2008/02/survey.html>.
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Tabitha, Miller. "Colors." Feng Shui in the Classroom. 15 Feb. 2008 <http://www.tabithamiller.com/learning/color.htm>.
Textbook Weight in California: Analysis and Recommendations. California State Board of Education. California Department of Education, 2004. 1-25. 2 Mar. 2008 <http://www2.cde.ca.gov/be/ag/ag/may04item21.pdf>.