Steelcase Technology Grant: The Classroom MUST Change.
"Steelcase Education is focused on helping schools, colleges and universities create the most effective, rewarding and inspiring active learning environments to meet the evolving needs of students and educators. Using an insight-led approach, we design solutions for the many spaces learning happens... We have a passion for understanding how learning best takes place and how smarter, active learning spaces can help." - Steelcase
"Educators are often faced with a tough choice: promote active learning or fit as many students as possible into a classroom without much flexibility. Until now." - Steelcase
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Click through the pages below to read about my proposal to bring Steelcase into the classroom.
The Proposal.In order to create a classroom culture of collaboration and community, a few key items need to be addressed. My ultimate goal with this project is to encourage students to develop the skills of perspective, application, explanation, and self-knowledge. I strongly believe that redesigning my classroom and incorporating elements of flipped learning, mastery learning, and gamification will allow students the opportunity to collaborate and discuss their ideas in a more organic nature.
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The Reason.Technology is changing at a rapid rate. We are trying our best to give students access to the newest upcoming technologies, but what we are forgetting is our OTHER types of technologies. Furniture within the classroom drastically changes the way students interact, collaborate, and communicate. We need to equip our classrooms with the technology necessary to incite these types of 21st century skills.
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The Technology.The Node chair is mobile and flexible. It’s designed for quick transitions between room configurations. With Node, a classroom can flex from lecture mode to groups, and back again, without interruption. Node can take passive space and make it active, supporting active and team-based learning, even when student density is important.
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