Building our Project Nest in the classroom.
My #designbrief as a teacher this year has been to create a physical space for students to own, interact and value. This has been a very big challenge for me and I have trialed many of my own prototypes. Up until now they have each had very limited success and I never really felt that the students felt ownership over the space. They would interact with it when prompted but never took it beyond that.
My latest prototype involved moving away from a classroom wall to a room divider. The room divider was sourced from the spare Prep room and after carrying it to my room it was placed so that it could be seen by students. The students then began to put up their immersion work and it was great to see them asking if they could put things up. The next day I was blown away when I say students standing at the wall after coming in from lunch. When asked what they were doing they replied 'We are just reading the wall!' Needless to say I was delighted and went and imagined myself doing a little victory dance. IT is great to see the students actively contributing work, ideas, connections to the wall. They have already begun synthesizing the information and it is great to hear them talking about all of the connections they are making.
I am hoping this will continue to grow as we move out of #immersion and into the other phases. I think that the latest #prototype has been more successful because it's:
- Eye Height
- Resources are used frequently in lessons
- Changing
- Open to students putting up anything that they feel is relevant
- Allowing time for tangents which have come from the exploration of the wall
My #designbrief as a teacher this year has been to create a physical space for students to own, interact and value. This has been a very big challenge for me and I have trialed many of my own prototypes. Up until now they have each had very limited success and I never really felt that the students felt ownership over the space. They would interact with it when prompted but never took it beyond that.
My latest prototype involved moving away from a classroom wall to a room divider. The room divider was sourced from the spare Prep room and after carrying it to my room it was placed so that it could be seen by students. The students then began to put up their immersion work and it was great to see them asking if they could put things up. The next day I was blown away when I say students standing at the wall after coming in from lunch. When asked what they were doing they replied 'We are just reading the wall!' Needless to say I was delighted and went and imagined myself doing a little victory dance. IT is great to see the students actively contributing work, ideas, connections to the wall. They have already begun synthesizing the information and it is great to hear them talking about all of the connections they are making.
I am hoping this will continue to grow as we move out of #immersion and into the other phases. I think that the latest #prototype has been more successful because it's:
- Eye Height
- Resources are used frequently in lessons
- Changing
- Open to students putting up anything that they feel is relevant
- Allowing time for tangents which have come from the exploration of the wall