Working in the education design space collectively for 26 years, we understand students and teachers need environments to support learning. Classrooms should be designed for listening and engagement; ...
That student comment was one of many positive reviews of Del Mar Union School District’s new modern classroom prototypes. Embracing an open floor plan design, the entire room is used for learning with ...
Rebecca Torchia is a web editor for EdTech: Focus on K–12. Previously, she has produced podcasts and written for several publications in Maryland, Washington, D.C., and her hometown of Pittsburgh. One ...
Technology-enhanced classrooms often serve, for a chair of a department or the dean of a college within a larger university, much the same function as do state-of-the-art media unions for college and ...
Monika Dressler, director of academic technologies services at the University of Michigan College of Literature, Science and the Arts, walks through a team-based learning classroom in the university’s ...
Designing and implementing a modern classroom that hits all the right notes is no small task. In this Q&A, Laura Lucas, the learning spaces manager at St. Edward’s University, discusses creating ...
Eonomics are a major factor in every school design decision, often conflicting with the goals of educators. With budgets tight, the discussion inevitably turns to dollars and cents, instead of the ...
Education eats good ideas. It boils down its best levers for change into cliches and shells of ideas. The complex is turned into checklists and clickbait. Modern classroom design is sitting on this ...
The third-grade students in Melissa Brody’s Crow Island School classroom in Winnetka were nearly unanimous when asked what they liked best about their new chairs, with flexible backs and legs. “I like ...