http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/27 Where Conversation Fuels Learning Environment Design Tue, 21 May 2013 18:25:58 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v= http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/27#comment-12 Sat, 04 Mar 2006 01:15:45 +0000 http://www.designshare.com/index.php/archives/27#comment-12 Bravo Wayne! Wonderful sentiments. I have taken to the habit of asking people I meet what their memories of school/university are. Ironically there are rarely any wistful recollections of gazing at the blackboard - mostly about friendships, pranks and other social events outside of the classroom. (Although some interesting extra curricular events were rumoured to have taken place in the typing room!)Wouldn't it be great if the next generation of learners were to remember their school days as the interactive and cohesive way they learnt about history and maths? How can we create memorable events through social learning within environments that support and facilitate such learning? My particular area of interest is in places of learning at university: I am constantly vexated by the expectation of students to have their 'empty heads' filled with knowledge in a teacher-centred lecture theatre. What learning potential is lost because the lecturer has been boring and disengaging?Universities need to become 'learning villages' where learning opportunities can occur seamlessly between formal classrooms and informal places where students actually enjoy being. We are on the same page, but there is still such a long way to go. Jo Dane, Monash University Australia Bravo Wayne! Wonderful sentiments. I have taken to the habit of asking people I meet what their memories of school/university are. Ironically there are rarely any wistful recollections of gazing at the blackboard - mostly about friendships, pranks and other social events outside of the classroom. (Although some interesting extra curricular events were rumoured to have taken place in the typing room!)Wouldn’t it be great if the next generation of learners were to remember their school days as the interactive and cohesive way they learnt about history and maths?
How can we create memorable events through social learning within environments that support and facilitate such learning?
My particular area of interest is in places of learning at university: I am constantly vexated by the expectation of students to have their ‘empty heads’ filled with knowledge in a teacher-centred lecture theatre. What learning potential is lost because the lecturer has been boring and disengaging?Universities need to become ‘learning villages’ where learning opportunities can occur seamlessly between formal classrooms and informal places where students actually enjoy being.
We are on the same page, but there is still such a long way to go.
Jo Dane, Monash University
Australia

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