Week 9 PLN

This week, I learned about the new evolving digital classrooms and different flexible learning spaces. Most schools and educators are now choosing to use these tactics in order to help benefit their students attention span. The Not Old School video, describes how architects are changing the way they develop schools. These three new elementary schools in Concord, New Hampshire designed   multiple learning environments for students to move around throughout the day in order to stay motivated and focused. This new digital classroom revolves around a library that overall shapes the infrastructure of the building. The school offers natural lighting which helps with children being able to read in appropriate lighting. The children within the school feel trusted and responsible from their teachers allowing them to walk to different learning areas to work on assignments such as projects, group work, or just reading in the natural light.

Other places are also adopting this new ideology behind students working better in a flexible learning environment. From Education changing and evolving to this new ideology allows educators to be able to connect with students one on one. By having moving desks allows children to fidget and move while not having them sit still for hours in a desk. Making classroom environments with desks that move also gives teachers to make lesson plans where kids could break up into groups or use the fishbowl method.  This allows students to collaborate more since it is easier to break up into little groups. Overall, the main point of this study is when someone is moving so is his or her brain. When a child is active he or she is able to stay focus and can easily transition to other lessons more efficiently.

I definitely think this concept of flexible learning environments is a great resource to find the most effective way to teach children. In my future classroom, I would really love to have these tools such as the moving desks and more natural lighting to help me incorporate entertaining and engaging lessons. I definitely loved learning about this new upcoming change in education because I think it will benefit students and teachers to help each child learn to his or her best ability.