Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 4:02 PM
To: Team Leaders
Subject: FW: Slate project on building a better classroom
I don't know anyone who has seen more classrooms than I, all over the world=
, but I haven't yet seen one that wasn't a box with movable parts (chairs, =
desks, manipulatives, technology, etc.) It may be that the best idea is to=
leave the classroom behind (experiential ed as the norm), but SLATE is loo=
king for the best ideas to work within the new classroom. Anyone seen anyth=
ing different, a classroom designed for the future in a way that is truly d=
ifferent and innovative?
Cheers.
PFB
"What we learn to do, we learn by doing." (Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.)
Patrick F. Bassett, President
NAIS - National Association of Independent Schools
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From: Linda Perlstein [mailto:lperlstein@ewa.org]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 2010 3:48 PM
To: Bassett, Patrick
Subject: Slate project on building a better classroom
Hi Pat,
I'm the public editor for the National Education Writers Association<http:/=
/ewa.org/> and will be leading a crowdsourcing project for Slate<http://www=
.slate.com/> magazine on building a better classroom for 21st century learn=
ing. Previous "Hive"<http://www.slate.com/id/2244683> projects, as they're =
called, have taken on suggested improvements in energy efficiency and urban=
transportation. Starting in a month, readers will be asked to suggest idea=
s for completely rethinking the way classrooms are built, and we'll select =
finalists and a winner. (Not that there is an actual prize.) Slate's partne=
rs in this project are Coca-Cola and Arizona State University.
I was wondering if you could think of anyone in the private-school world wh=
o has thought innovatively along these lines-if you can think of examples o=
f schools that have done anything notably different in the way classrooms a=
re designed (especially if it's done so in a way that is integrated with a =
specific philsophy of educating students). If you can think of anyone good =
to talk with, please be in touch, by phone or e-mail.
Best,
Linda
Linda Perlstein
Public editor
Education Writers Association
lperlstein@ewa.org<mailto:lperlstein@ewa.org>
www.educatedreporter.com<http://www.educatedreporter.com>
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