So, I’ve been thinking a lot about the article in The New York Times from February 23rd: ”True Innovation“. Jon Gertner is the author of a forthcoming book about Bell Labs called The Idea Factory: Bell Labs and the Great Age of American Innovation and this was a kind of preview. There was plenty of detail [...]
Posts Tagged ‘room design’
Bell Labs and School
Posted: March 9, 2012 in UncategorizedTags: change, collaboration, connection, discovery, experiment, inspiration, room design
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So, I’ve been thinking about room arrangement all year. I started with a new format at the beginning of the year, changed it up a little based on some student input; then had the students plan and vote on a new arrangement. All that didn’t quite push the boundaries as much as I wanted. So, [...]
Bringing in the Experts
Posted: March 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: change, collaboration, reflection, room design, update
So, I’ve been thinking and writing about seating arrangement a lot this year. Just on the off-chance that you didn’t catch those earlier posts, I’ll summarize quickly. I did some reading over the summer about seating and then bought tables from IKEA that were not only inexpensive, but easily move around the room. Then, even [...]
A Different Perspective
Posted: February 8, 2011 in UncategorizedTags: change, furniture, room design, update
So, I’ve been thinking about seating arrangementt this year. I’ve written about my ideas and my new IKEA tables and how well I think the new plan is going. Then, I had to rearrange, briefly, for ERB testing. I hated it. The desks were in rows; the students were all facing me when we were [...]
Game On!
Posted: September 23, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: beginning of the year, class tone, language arts, room design
So, I’ve been thinking about the great conversation I had with my class yesterday. It was the kind of conversation we don’t usually have until a lot later in the year. I’ve been thinking about why it went so well. First let me tell you what my definition of “going well” is. In 5th grade [...]
New Seating Arrangement Update 1
Posted: September 14, 2010 in UncategorizedTags: furniture, ideas, room design, update
So, I’ve been thinking about how my new furniture is working out. One of my big plans for this year was to make my room more flexible in terms of seating arrangements. I wrote about it here. Well, let me give you the update you’ve been waiting for. The good: I love having our regular [...]
So, I’ve been thinking about classroom set-up. I always rearrange depending on what we are doing etc, but I am feeling more and more that I want need to have a flexible arrangement that can be changed at a moment’s notice. We settled in to a big arc of desks last year. It was more than [...]
