So much of our work in this class seems like a reaction to working around the legacy of a factory based classroom model. What is a classroom? Is the learning environment (LE) only the making of the teacher? If so we are not talking about a LE. We are talking about a teacher's teaching. The built environment contains the biggest unseen curriculum, as we are victims of a biased design with every step we take. How can you think outside of the box if you are constantly placed in one? The Man is watching all the time. What if we integrated an ecological design process into our LE and experienced the curriculum as part of the same ecosystem?
For one thing diversity would be built into the systems and be an essential component. A diverse LE supports diverse learners. I don't want anything hidden at all. All of the infinite detail and possibilities of emergent systems would be transparent, exciting and protean. In our built environment, especially the classroom, what is hidden is power, control, conformity and exclusion. These are all vestiges of factory needs.
How can we mimic the online personal LE in a place based facility? By making it more like an organism than a building. If John Todd's living machine mimics nature to create new life, a living facility could support emergent learning in the same way. A 'classroom' in this model would be only one aspect of a learning ecosystem; either the entire ecosystem in one sense or seen as one type of niche in a larger whole. If the building is a collaborator in the process of learning, no single individual would reign over you. Each has their place connected and interrelated to others, transparent in the processes of the whole.
For one thing diversity would be built into the systems and be an essential component. A diverse LE supports diverse learners. I don't want anything hidden at all. All of the infinite detail and possibilities of emergent systems would be transparent, exciting and protean. In our built environment, especially the classroom, what is hidden is power, control, conformity and exclusion. These are all vestiges of factory needs.
How can we mimic the online personal LE in a place based facility? By making it more like an organism than a building. If John Todd's living machine mimics nature to create new life, a living facility could support emergent learning in the same way. A 'classroom' in this model would be only one aspect of a learning ecosystem; either the entire ecosystem in one sense or seen as one type of niche in a larger whole. If the building is a collaborator in the process of learning, no single individual would reign over you. Each has their place connected and interrelated to others, transparent in the processes of the whole.