Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas
George Copa
New Designs for Learning
Salem, Oregon
Source: George H. Copa, PhD, Director, New Designs for Learning, Salem Oregon. Contact at copag@oregonstate.edu or 503-580-5997.
Slides
1. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
- Technological Enhancement
- Lifelong Learning
- Facilitation
- Accountability
- Equity
- Accessibility
- Investment
Source: George H. Copa, PhD, Director, New Designs for Learning, Salem Oregon. Contact at copag@oregonstate.edu or 503-580-5997.
2. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: International Phenomenon
- Australia
- Denmark
- France
- Holland
- Japan
- Mexico
- Portugal
- Singapore
- Spain
- Thailand
- United kingdom
- United States
On rating of one (no importance) to seven (very important), the range of mean rating was 5.0 to 6.1.
3. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
- Technological Enhancement
- Lifelong Learning
- Facilitation
- Accountability
- Equity
- Accessibility
- Investment
4. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
5. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Meaning
- Learner inspired (feel wonder, shelter), trusted, understood
- Learner as motivated
- Involved in deciding (help make rules, goals, ways, places, spaces), choice
- Active - mind, body, and spirit
- Attention to prior learning
- Connects to interests, experiences, and talents
6. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Meaning
Photograph of a small child trying to tie a shoe
7. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Contradictions
Photograph of a classroom with students in rows
8. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Contradictions
Example from your experience?
9. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment
Student Voice
Photograph of Students in the library. Southern Career and Technical Center, Evansville, IN.
10. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment
Informal learning.
Photograph of students in the cafeteria. MET, Providence, Rhode Island.
11. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment
Meaningful learning
Photograph of students in an outdoor classroom planting trees.
12. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment
Alive, exciting, bright, open
Photographs of the Advanced Technology Center in Canby, Oregon.
13. Emerging Ideas Reshaping learning: Engagement -- Supporting Environment
Example from your experience?
14. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
15. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Meaning
- Each and every, one at a time, all
- Learner-centered, niche for each
- Known/advocated for
- Responsive to diversity
- Wrap-around support
- Multiple ways to learn
- Self-directed, owned by learner
- Differentiated
16. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions
Grading on a curve
17. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions
Photographs of lockers
18. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Contradictions
Photograph of classroom with backpacks on the ground due to no storage.
19. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Contradictions
Examples from your experience?
20. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Supporting Environment
Small Schools - MET in Providence, Rhode Island
Photographs of the same school.
21. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment
Personal Spaces
Photograph of student cubicles from the School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN
22. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment
Responding to Diversity
Photograph of the Navajo Preparatory School, Famington, New Mexico. Photograph by Thompson Pollari Studio.
23. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Personalization -- Supporting Environment
Choice, variety, changing
Photograph of the Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
24. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Personalization -- Supporting Environment
Examples from your experience?
25. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
26. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Meaning
- Relationships
- Pathways, role-ness (not role-less-ness)
- Team and community
- Systems and networks and partnerships
- Not alone, social
- Shared, interactive, intimate, equitable
- Cooperation/collaboration
- Integrated/linked
- Informal and formal
- Local and global
27. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions
Photograph of a field with school in background.
28. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions
Drawing of a typical high school with parking lots and sports fields.
29. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Drawing of the 21st Century High School with connectivity to the larger community .
30. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Contradictions
Example from your experiences?
31. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning together, growing forever; community development
Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada
Picture of Community Learning Campus cover of booklet.
32. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning together, growing forever; community development
Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada
Blueprint of the Community Learning Campus.
33. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning together, growing forever; community development
Community Learning Campus, Olds, Alberta, Canada
Blueprint of the Community Learning Campus.
34. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Connecting learning and working
Applied Technology Center, Montebello, California
Picture of the Poster Learning Working the Applied Technology Center
35. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning Working
Learning Expectations:
- Critical thinking, problem-solving, and decision making
- Social and civic responsibility
- Interpersonal relations and team work
- Work ethic
- Organization and time management
- Self-confidence and awareness
Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA
36. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning Working
Learning Process
- Engaging and real
- Active and experiential
- Flexibility and variety
- Industry involved
- Integrating technology
- Innovative staffing
Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA
37. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning Working
Diagram from the school, to the district, to the county, to the state, to the Western United States, to the United States, to the World.
38. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Learning Working
Blueprint of a supporting school environment.
Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA
39. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Education: Connectivity - Supporting Environment
Learning Working
Map of the larger community around the Applied Technology Center
Applied Technology Center, Montebello, CA
40. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Global learning
Photograph of students helping others
School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN
41. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Student teams
Photograph of students at a learning pod with computers.
High Tech High, San Diego, CA
42. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environment
Staff Teams
Photograph of teachers work room
School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN
43. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environments
Network, Pattern of Settings
Pictures of pattern settings.
44. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Connectivity -- Supporting Environments
Example from your experiences?
45. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Ideas Selected for Elaboration
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
46. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Meaning
- Real, meaningful
- Construction, not instruction
- Production, not reproduction
- Real projects, places, problems
- Public performance
- Value-added
- Community-based
- Integrated
- Experiential
47. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Contradictions
- Predefined problems
- Answers in books
- Isolated from community
- No resources
- Move to new task and work environment every hour
48. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Contradictions
Example from your experiences?
49. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments
Community as School
Ariel photograph of the city of Chetek, Wisconsin
Chetek Area Schools, Chetek, Wisconsin
50. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments
Downtown School, Minneapolis, MN
- Business
- Arts and Entertainment
- Government
- Education
- The River
Blueprint of the Downtown School and Off-site learning settings.
51. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments
Real, Changing
Photographs of the Ville de Saint-Georges, Quebec, Canada
52. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environment
Resemble workplaces; project based, cooperative, interdisciplinary
Photograph of a classroom at the MET, Providence, Rhode Island
53. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments
Provides valued services
Photograph of students in the river.
School for Environmental Studies, Apple Valley, MN
54. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environments
Used by the community.
Entrepreneurial Schools, Kawasaki City, Japan
Photograph of equipment and blueprint of school layout
55. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Authenticity -- Supporting Environment
Example from your experiences?
56. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning
- Engagement
- Personalization
- Connectivity
- Authenticity
- Technological Enhancement
- Lifelong Learning
- Facilitation
- Accountability
- equity
- Accessibility
- Investment
57. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Relation Among Ideas - Convergence? Synergy?
Bubble drawing of connectivity, authenticity, accountability, lifelong, facilitated, personalization, technology enhanced
58. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Linking Learning and School Design
Drawing of learning plan going into facility plan - time and intensity
59. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Elements of Learning Plan
- Learning context
- Learning audience
- Learning signature
- Learning expectations
- Learning process
- Learning organization
- Learning staffing
- Learning partnerships
- Learning environment
- Learning accountability
- Learning celebration
- Learning finance
Arrow going down
60. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Elements of Learning Plan
- Learning context
- Learning audience
- Learning signature
- Learning expectations
- Learning process
- Learning organization
- Learning staffing
- Learning partnerships
- Learning environment
- Learning accountability
- Learning celebration
- Learning finance
Two arrows pointing up and down
61. Emerging Ideas Reshaping Learning: Linking Learning and School Design
Drawing of learning plan, facility plan, curricular plan, staffing plan, accountability plan - time and intensity
62. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas
Moving to music not yet written...Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Garden
Colorful picture wavelike
63. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas - The Future
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64. Linking Learning and School Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas - The Future
- Ubiquitous
- Creativity
Moving to music not yet written...Alice Walker, In Search of Our Mother's Garden
Colorful picture wavelike
65. Linking Learning and school Design: Responding to Emerging Ideas
Contact Information
George H. Copa, PhD, Director
New Designs for Learning
6058 Riverdale Road South
Salem, Oregon
503-580-5997
copag@oregonstate.edu