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WEDNESDAY, JUNE 20, 2012
10 Current School Facility Features that are Obsolete
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I have been out of the blogosphere for the last few months but an interesting article has come to my attention that I think is worth talking about. It’s an older article on the great blog Mind/Shift: “21 Things That Will Be Obsolete by 2020” by Shelly Blake-Plock.
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http://blogs.kqed.org/mindshift/2011/03/21-things-that-will-be-obsolete-by-2020/ These are school related things and it got me to thinking about how many school facility “things” are obsolete today and yet are still in wide use. These are not facility features in decades old crumbling schools; rather they are features that are frequently included in new schools today. In no particular order these are:
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Departmental Organizations In order to break down the size of schools and to allow students to learn across the curriculum it is essential to organize schools so that teachers of various subjects are located together. This not only emulates how people work today – in collaborative groups – but encourages teachers to consider students holistically, not only as they perform in a specific subject. Yet there are hundreds of new schools being designed and built with this obsolete organization.
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Learning in prescribed spaces When you ask people to remember a meaningful learning experience from high school, chances are the experience they recall did not take place in a space designed for learning. Learning outside, while working in groups, while on a trip, while doing a project or learning while talking with friends are all informal experiences people cite as meaningful learning experiences. We don’t design schools to accommodate these activities; instead we only focus on the formal spaces. This is obsolete thinking.
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