Learning+Spaces

Include the names of all members of your group, and your responses to the following questions:

1. What are the challenges being presented? 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide you!

__//** S tephen 8.3, Lyndon 8.2, Melissa 8.2, Devon 8.3 **//__

__**//Questions://**__ 1. What are the challenges being presented? -By keeping kids inside it destroys their creativity and knowledge of the real world -Class rooms are confined and keep children enclosed like a cell for the enrtire day -Same hierachy of classes around the world. 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? -Children need more time in school to see the real world and apply their knowledge to the real world -Humanities and scienc classrooms exist in numerous amounts while the fine arts are only in one room throughout the entire building and if they don’t get fine arts (creative classes) then we focus on th head and become boring and unlikable in a way. 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? -By getting kids outside and viewing what they are learning about in the real world it gets them to understand projects with a gretter depth and in order to acomplish this they need to have field trips or visitors to come in and show them what is going on in the world. -make the fine arts (creative classes) more acsesable and widespread throughout the school so that classes get more chances to have creative classes. 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research. 1. What should a school look like based on its values and/or beliefs? 2. In what ways are the current design of schools discouraging creativity in young students? 3. Is the classroom by grade design suitable for our hierachal school system? 4. How efficient is our basic classroom set up of today and how could it be changed? 5. Should we rethink that desing of were and how many fine art class rooms a school should have within its walls? 6. Should schools put up motivational posters to encourage the students throughout the school wants and how would they work? 7. Why might it be a good idea to let students go outside of the school grounds to learn instead of being inside? 8. Should a school be one large building or several building for different subjetcs so that the student could learn things such as how to read a map or navigational skills? 9. What is a reasonable amount of school activity for one days schedule? 10. Should we add extra fine arts and other creative activities into our day to support creativity and diverse learning? -Staff of CSS -The Superintendent //**__Presentation format:__ -Sketch Up OR Youtube Clip
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 * Alex, Amy, Mitchell **

- We are learning what we don’t want to learn - School wasn’t fun in the past =( - School is way too long
 * 1. What are the challenges being presented? **

- School is not fun - Schools kill creativity - In the past there were not a variety of ways to learn
 * 2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? **
 * - **We are afraid of being wrong

- That we should find new ways of creative learning - Students should not afraid to be wrong - We need a much broader view on education - You should follow your passion - We don’t know what jobs will be presented in the future, so we shouldn’t focus on one area of work
 * 3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? **

- How much time should we spend focusing on fine arts, electives, and physical activity? - Why did it take so long to change how we teach and learn? - What would be the best design for a classroom to help us learn? - What would make students want to come to school? - What is the purpose of school? - Should students have a choice of what we do in school? - Should we follow more of a high school design or should we stay as we are? - Do we have too much expected of students? - Does the color of the classroom effect how we learn? - Should the class room be colorful or dull?
 * 4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research. **


 * Josh,Ben,Christine**

1. What are the challenges being presented?
====The physical space of the current schools are squandering the creativitiy of the students. The schools aren’t as specialized to what the students are really good at or interested in and so they find the space less interesting. The students are being seperated from each to much because of the teacher don’t allow the students to be close to each other or interact with each other.====

====School’s should have more creativity involved, and not what schools are like now. Such as assigned seats in rows and not allowing students to talk. This would then stop creativity. The speaker had said that in 30 years there will be more students graduating then now. I think the speaker is saying that students creativity is stopping.====

3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?
====That current days schools do not provide the children with enough of a creative mindset. Therfor the school would look boring with little decoration or color. A study says that the color purple helps children be more creative. If the schoolsare boring, then the kids will fell bored in the classroom, buit if the classroom is decorated and colorful. It will make them fell hapier.====

4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research.
__**Mircea, Patrick, Reed, and Michael**__