Edutopia, a George Lucas-funded education newsletter with a tendency to wander off into cloud cuckoo land, has a piece on its site about “buildings that teach” which claims the way a building is designed and used has a “profound impact” on the way students learn.
“In state-of-the-art learning environments, classrooms with straight rows of desks and a teacher lecturing in the front are gone,” writes architecture professor Anne Taylor. “Instead, the indoor spaces of the school are carefully planned to encourage learning and support the developmental needs of the whole person. They consist of places for students to engage in applied hands-on inquiry, problem solving, group work, discussions, presentations, and reflection.”
Couldn’t get any further than that. Feel free to read it and report back.
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