I am starting to work on my presentation regarding 21st Century Learning Spaces in Melbourne in two weeks and in Adelaide in early August. Yesterday I met with Phil Long, Mark Schultz and their colleagues who work at the Centre for Education Innovation and Technology at the University of Queensland. Mark provided a paper which piqued my interest and is the title for this blog. So the environment in which you exist does impact on your ability to process information.
The influence of Ceiling Height : The effect of Priming on the type of processing that people use. This article claims that high ceilings promote a different response in consumers (in our case, learners). Could high ceilings promote higher order, more creative and abstract thinking? I had been starting to think about why educational delivery really hasn’t changed much over thepast 100 years, and what I was starting to ascertain was that the environment itself is constraining. Classrooms of four walls, doors to close, desks in rows itself was limiting teacher and student creativity.
Recently, I blogged about a Qantas Club model for the classroom, so that space, furniture and technology was functional for the variety of learning that we now expect. Pru Mitchell recently alerted me to the Adelaide University Library setting which closely matches this.
I think this is an area further research could be undertaken.
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