Classroom Environments

This page is dedicated to all the amazing sites and ideas that people have put together around classroom environments.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/0ByC0GEBP4l0ndHl2NVFIYzRfYU0 
https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/19-Yn00v319g22ERxiQR_g8V1zQNAUdTCQpKyMVITZ1k/edit#slide=id.p 

Modern Learning Environments: Hingaia Peninsula School

http://elearningclassroom.wikispaces.com/

School Painting Designs

http://www.thecoolhunter.net/article/detail/2098/ecole-maternelle-pajol--paris

http://www.distinction.net.nz/Site/Products_in_action/Modern_Learning_Environments.ashx

http://www.vln.school.nz/discussion/view/232181

http://openlearningspaces.blogspot.co.nz/

http://rubble.heppell.net/rooms_in_rooms/

Future Libraries - https://sites.google.com/site/buildingelearningcapacity/topical-issues/future-libraries

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Learning+Spaces

http://edorigami.wikispaces.com/21st+Century+Pedagogy

http://www.vln.school.nz/resources/view/222224/investigating-the-spacial-environment-of-classrooms-at-wairere-school

http://www.downes.ca/post/59081#.UGE86XNoLB4.blogger

Nice set of photos illustrating how many of the ideas inherent in online learning are applied in actual schools. Note that you can't just integrate these ideas into existing classes; you have to reimagine what you mean by 'school' before you can even start. "The newest school system in Sweden look more like the hallways of Google or Pixar and less like a brick-and-mortar school you'd typically see. There are collaboration zones, houses-within-houses, and a slew of other features that are designed to foster 'curiosity and creativity.'"