{"data":{"ID":661,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1477950721,"CreatorID":4735,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Making Space for Learning","Handle":"making_space_for_learning","ShortDescription":"SITU Studio, an architectural design firm in Brooklyn, shares their experience creating innovative educational spaces in museums, libraries and schools. Designed to embed \u201cmaking\u201d and problem-solving in the classroom, their projects show new ways to integrate technology support hands-on learning, invite experimentation, and prepare students for independent, critical thinking.","Description":"Amidst an outpouring of new teaching trends & tools within education, there\u2019s a need to talk about the learning spaces that support  and can adapt to the changing needs of students, teachers, and technology. This session will explore how maker-oriented environments meet these needs, focusing on how these spaces support hands-on learning, invite experimentation, integrate digital and physical tools, & prepare students for independent & critical thinking. Looking at a handful of education & institutional projects, SITU will share some of the lessons learned through prototyping and developing maker-related environments at varying scales for diverse groups.","Link":["http:\/\/www.situstudio.com\/"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"We will begin our session by inviting attendees to think about the educational environments in which they work. What comes to mind? What are the logistical hurdles for accommodating the various activities their students partake in? Where are the bottlenecks? How is group work supported, as well as independent learning? Do students have a chance to retreat during the day?  What words they would use to describe their ideal teaching\/learning spaces? This will be a 10 minute period of quiet reflections. \r\n\r\nThen after introducing six design principles for developing maker-oriented learning environments in our lecture, we will ask attendees to reflect on how these different principles would serve their classroom, and how they might be integrated through hacks (day 1) as well as infrastructural changes (day 3). We\u2019ll begin with 5 minutes of silent reflection and then open up for a larger discussion. We conclude by circulating a handout with 2-3 spatial experiments for teachers to pilot in their classrooms.","Presenter":["Aleksey Lukyanov Cherny"],"PresenterAffiliation":["SITU Studio"],"PresenterEmail":["samantha@situstudio.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":76,"ScheduleLocationID":14,"SubmitterID":4735,"AdditionalComments":null,"LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":6}}