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Fred
On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Bassett, Patrick <bassett@nais.org> wrote:
> From: Bassett, Patrick
> 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 looking for the best ideas to work within the new classroom. Any=
one
> seen anything different, a classroom designed for the future in a way tha=
t
> is truly different and innovative?
>
> Cheers.
>
> PFB
>
> "What we learn to do, we learn by doing." (Aristotle, 384-322 B.C.)
>
> Patrick F. Bassett, President
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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 learning. Previous "Hive"<http://www.slate.com/id/2244683>
> projects, as they're called, have taken on suggested improvements in ener=
gy
> efficiency and urban transportation. Starting in a month, readers will be
> asked to suggest ideas for completely rethinking the way classrooms are
> built, and we'll select finalists and a winner. (Not that there is an act=
ual
> prize.) Slate's partners in this project are Coca-Cola and Arizona State
> University.
>
> I was wondering if you could think of anyone in the private-school world
> who has thought innovatively along these lines-if you can think of exampl=
es
> of schools that have done anything notably different in the way classroom=
s
> are 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 goo=
d
> to talk with, please be in touch, by phone or e-mail.
>
> Best,
> Linda
>
>
> Linda Perlstein
> Public editor
> Education Writers Association
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Fred Bartels
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Rye Country Day School
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