{"id":1964,"date":"2012-01-19T10:11:23","date_gmt":"2012-01-19T17:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/?p=1964"},"modified":"2014-09-12T11:56:56","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T17:56:56","slug":"learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/19\/learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning Outside the Box: Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet"},"content":{"rendered":"<span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.smartplanet.com\/blog\/smart-takes\/sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school\/21558?tag=search-river\">Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It looks great. This isn&#8217;t a new concept though &#8211; Canada (and I&#8217;m sure other places too) experimented with &#8220;Open Concept&#8221; schools in the late 60&#8217;s. The design of the school in the article looks very 60&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>I went to a <a href=\"http:\/\/schools.tdsb.on.ca\/westview\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">high school<\/a> that was a mix of wall-less classrooms and a few traditional ones. I thought it was grand but there were some kids that had real trouble with it.I think they ended up renovating and getting rid of most of the interesting spaces &#8211; few teachers were up to it.<\/p>\n<p>We had English in a space made of curved, carpeted, step seating surrounding a &#8216;stage&#8217; area that had several bean-bag chairs. It being the 60&#8217;s, we had a lot of bean-bag chairs.<\/p>\n<p>We also had other spaces that looked very much like some of the spaces shown in the article.<\/p>\n<p>If you go back a little farther &#8211; MOST schools were classroom-less: the one-room schoolhouse that covered all of 1-12 is one of those, no? I realize most still had desks in neat rows, but still&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Open spaces can present some interesting challenges &#8211; like what if the class next to you is obviously having a lot more fun than you are? How do you get the kids to ignore the &#8220;party next door&#8221;? It can also be a little distracting when you have smelly (or explosive) chemistry experiments going on next to you and you are trying to concentrate on biology.<\/p>\n<p>On the whole though, I suspect that &#8216;learning outside the box&#8217; helps you learn how to think outside the box.<\/p>\n<div class='wp_likes' id='wp_likes_post-1964'><a class='like' href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1964);\" title='' ><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/wp-content\/plugins\/wp-likes\/images\/like.png\" alt='' border='0'\/><\/a><span class='text'>Be the first to like.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class='like' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.like(1964);\">Like<\/a><\/div>\n<div class='unlike' ><a href=\"javascript:wp_likes.unlike(1964);\">Unlike<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"span-reading-time rt-reading-time\" style=\"display: block;\"><span class=\"rt-label rt-prefix\">Approximate Reading Time: <\/span> <span class=\"rt-time\"> &lt; 1<\/span> <span class=\"rt-label rt-postfix\">minute<\/span><\/span>Sweden debuts first classroom-less school | SmartPlanet. It looks great. This isn&#8217;t a new concept though &#8211; Canada (and I&#8217;m sure other places too) experimented with &#8220;Open Concept&#8221; schools in the late 60&#8217;s. The design of the school in the &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2012\/01\/19\/learning-outside-the-box-sweden-debuts-first-classroom-less-school-smartplanet\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[9,14,24],"tags":[41,393],"class_list":["post-1964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-educational-technology","category-general","category-teaching-learning","tag-education","tag-teaching-learning"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Hsb6-vG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4743,"url":"http:\/\/minkhollow.ca\/beckerblog\/2015\/07\/04\/what-schools-must-learn-from-las-ipad-debacle-wired\/","url_meta":{"origin":1964,"position":0},"title":"What Schools Must Learn From LA&#8217;s iPad Debacle | WIRED","author":"Katrin Becker","date":"July 4, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"What Schools Must Learn From LA's iPad Debacle | WIRED. 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