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Technology Is Changing the Way Kids
Learn
… And the Classrooms in Which They Do It.
Advertising supplement provided by Paxton
/ Patterson
By Stephen H. Daniels
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Continuing
Education
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Use the following learning
objectives to focus your study while reading this month’s
ARCHITECTURAL RECORD / AIA Continuing Education article.
Learning Objective:
After reading this article, you will be able to:
1. Know
the trends in technology education and its impact on
future learning environments.
2. Be aware
of how the design of schools can impact the learning
and how students and teachers interact.
3. Understand
ways to design a technology lab to be flexible and allow
for future growth in technology and learning.
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For further background, readers are referred to the
websites of the following organizations: the International
Society for Technology in Education (ISTE), International
Technology Education Association (ITEA), National Clearinghouse
for Educational Facilities (NCEF), National Center for
Educational Statistics (NCES), the National Educational
Technology Standards Project (NETS) and the U.S. Department
of Education’s Office of Educational Technology
(OET). Also of interest to classroom architects is the
November 2002 report by the U.S. Department of Education’s
Office of Educational Research and Improvement: “Technology
in Schools,” which offers tools and guidelines
for assessing technology in elementary and secondary
schools. It may be found at http://nces.ed.gov/pubs2003/2003313.pdf.
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Required Reading
As part of the required material for this CES section,
please read the architects’ comments section of
the National Science Foundation planning study. To access
the additional material please click here.
To request a faxed copy, contact Bonnie Grzelinski at
(800) 323-8484 ext. 202, or email bgrzelinski@paxpat.com.
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It has been nearly seven years since former U.S. Secretary
of Education Richard W. Riley released the nation’s first
educational technology plan. That plan, which had the lofty
title “Getting America’s Students Ready for the
21st Century: Meeting the Technology Literacy Challenge”,
transformed overnight what our children learn, how they are
taught, and the Internet-driven wave of change that swept
over education has had tremendous impact on classroom design
itself.
The classrooms for the 21st century are
shaped by Internet learning.
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Programs defined as technology education
are replacing programs known as industrial arts in the same
way that industrial arts replaced “manual arts”
30 years ago, and both curriculum and facilities are dramatically
different.
“Architects who are pulling from
their files, as the basis for new school plans today, blueprints
from the 60s—and there are still a great number of them—are
doing their clients a disservice,” says one Midwest-based
tech education consultant. “To accommodate the new curriculum,
schools today, especially the new labs, are wildly different
than anything you and I grew up with.”
This continuing education piece will
look at recent trends in technology education and will look
briefly at how learning success can be influenced by effective
design. In it, we will look at a number of technology labs,
including those in which modular units replace “typical”
classrooms and curriculum, and we will discuss the environments
necessary to effect successful “project-based” learning.
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