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Redesigning a school's learning spaces. Crafting collaborative places. School designs from around the globe My journey for understanding the transactional relationship between the learner and the learning environment began when I walked into a first and second grade public school as a teacher’s assistant in East Harlem, New York City.

Crafting collaborative places

This classroom was different from anything I had ever experienced; for, it was not a room with rows of seats facing a blackboard, rather it had been organised with a variety of activity settings (Tharp & Gallimore, 1997). These settings were defined zones where learners were engaged with others as they read, constructed objects, painted, built with blocks, explored the world of science, or were involved in dramatic play.

Crafting collaborative places. Learning Space Design. Redesigning your Learning Spaces: How Mobile Technology Demands a New Classroom – from Jen Carey. Jen Carey is LIVE blogging for us from the EdTechTeacher iPad Summit USA.

Redesigning your Learning Spaces: How Mobile Technology Demands a New Classroom – from Jen Carey

You can also find these posts on her site – indianajen.com. Concurrent Session #2 – Redesigning your Learning Spaces: How Mobile Technology Demands a New Classroom – Don Orth, Director of Technology at Hillbrook School, Christa Flores, MS Science & iLab Director, Tim Springer, Founder & President Hero, Inc. What should classrooms (physically) look like with the learning that is happening now? The Hillbrook School is hosting an iPad School 2.0 Summit this summer. Big Picture questions: 8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom. Editor's Note: Author David Bill is a designer and educator who consulted with The Third Teacher+ on the Remake Your Class project highlighted in the videos below.

8 Tips and Tricks to Redesign Your Classroom

The tips in this post go along with the companion video. We are excited by the simplicity (and low price tag!) Of this great redesign. Hope you'll share any of your own tips in the comments area below. If you're thinking of completing your own classroom remake project, good for you.