• How can we get students excited about learning? What can we change about the current classroom?
• How do people learn: visual or auditory?
• What could we change? The how we learn (pedagogy) vs. what we learn (curriculum).
• Design a classroom that has components of classroom & workshop – Like Brooklyn Tech.
• Create a “hub” with workshop shared space as the center and the classrooms surrounding it.
• Perhaps explore satellite classroom conditions to maximize the diversity of learning.
• Are we designing for fantasy or reality?
• Are we designing based on or for Pedagogy (how you teach) or curriculum (what you teach)
• Sustainable school design – closed food chain like St. Phillips academy.
• Gardens that help students learn how to cultivate, harvest and cook with organic foods like what Alice Waters’ edible classroom program. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters
• Perhaps use current events and issues facing the community to update curriculum. For example in an urban setting there are math, physics, government & science lessons all based on the congestion pricing debate.
• Do surveys of teachers and students to see what they think are assets or liabilities. Have them take pictures of spaces or places to answer survey questions, i.e. this space makes me happy, I feel safe here, etc.
• Design ideas: vertical garden, vertical trailer (for its expansion in city where there is no space available), box or not box?....
• Todo list: image bank to be set up; sketches sketches!
Fri, 2009-03-13 04:39
The Gensler team met at 5:00 in Silver B.
Gary Chan, Mark Thaler, Kristen Tobing, Kelley Tapia, SaeMi Lee, Danielle DiCharry, Ralph Walker, Hey Sook Yon were all in attendance. Erin Murphy from After Ed TV visited as well.
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Tue, 2009-03-10 15:15
Today we selected a school partner. After reaching out to another school who was unresponsive Ralph called Peter Anderson at FLI Charter School in Harlem. Peter was thrilled at the opportunity and they immediately set up a walk thru on March 20th.
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• How can we get students excited about learning? What can we change about the current classroom?
• How do people learn: visual or auditory?
• What could we change? The how we learn (pedagogy) vs. what we learn (curriculum).
• Design a classroom that has components of classroom & workshop – Like Brooklyn Tech.
• Create a “hub” with workshop shared space as the center and the classrooms surrounding it.
• Perhaps explore satellite classroom conditions to maximize the diversity of learning.
• Are we designing for fantasy or reality?
• Are we designing based on or for Pedagogy (how you teach) or curriculum (what you teach)
• Sustainable school design – closed food chain like St. Phillips academy.
• Gardens that help students learn how to cultivate, harvest and cook with organic foods like what Alice Waters’ edible classroom program.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Waters
• Create a dialog and interaction between the outside and inside classrooms:
http://www.naturesclassroom.org/
• Perhaps use current events and issues facing the community to update curriculum. For example in an urban setting there are math, physics, government & science lessons all based on the congestion pricing debate.
• Do surveys of teachers and students to see what they think are assets or liabilities. Have them take pictures of spaces or places to answer survey questions, i.e. this space makes me happy, I feel safe here, etc.
• Design ideas: vertical garden, vertical trailer (for its expansion in city where there is no space available), box or not box?....
• Todo list: image bank to be set up; sketches sketches!