{"id":558,"date":"2022-09-02T04:22:21","date_gmt":"2022-09-02T04:22:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yulinglee.com\/?p=558"},"modified":"2022-09-19T16:42:54","modified_gmt":"2022-09-19T16:42:54","slug":"heres-everything-you-need-to-travel-the-world-in-3-easy-steps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yulinglee.com\/?p=558","title":{"rendered":"Why consider Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

My colleague Nina Pak Lui and I have bene working through challenges of the traditional classroom. We are trying to discern and articulate how teaching and learning are impacted by space, materiality, and design. This is both a conceptual and a practical challenge. For example, we ask, why do our education classrooms prioritize front facing design with (relatively) fixed furniture? At times, I appreciate a didactic approach via lecturing, yet I would like easy configurability in the classrooms to better serve group discussions and projects. In thinking through these kinds of structural questions, I have developed an interest in Active Learning Classrooms (ALCs). <\/strong>These are purposefully designed spaces where classroom space, furniture, tools, and technologies prioritizes “active learning.” A few examples in the following links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yale Poorvu Center for Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McGill Teaching and Learning Services<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Concordia Centre for Teaching and Learning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

McMaster Faculty of Social Sciences<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Queen’s Active Learning Classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

University of Toronto Active Learning<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Steelcase furniture for Active Learning Classrooms<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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