Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning

Hugh Skinner GHMA

June 19, 2011

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Agenda

What are 21st Century Skills? •  Society’s Changing Educational Goals •  21st Century Learning Convergence and a New Balance •  21st Century Knowledge-and-Skills Rainbow

What does Project Based Learning Look Like? •  What types of spaces?

Who are the 21st Century Skills Facilities Planning Partners? •  Enabling a 21st Century Skills result

Resources

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Society’s Changing Educational Goals

Agrarian Age

Industrial Age

Knowledge Age

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Society’s Changing Educational Goals

Industrial Age Value Chain

Extraction Manufacturing Assembly Marketing Distribution Products (and Services)

Knowledge Age Value Chain

Data Information Knowledge Expertise Services (and Products) Marketing

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Learning Convergence

21st Century Learning

Thinking Tools

Knowledge Work

Learning Research

Digital Lifestyles

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Learning Balance

21st Century Learning Teacher-directed Direct Instruction Knowledge Content Basic Skills Theory Curriculum Individual Classroom Summative Assessments Learning for School

Learner-centered Collaborative Instruction Skills Process Higher-order Thinking Practice Life Skills Group Community Formative Evaluations Learning for Life

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What are 21st Century Skills?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Knowledge-and-Skills Rainbow

Core Subjects and 21st Century Themes

Life and Career Skills

Learning and Innovation Skills

Information, Media and Technology Skills

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Knowledge-and-Skills Rainbow

Core Subjects •  English •  Reading/Lang Arts •  World Languages •  Arts •  Mathematics •  Economics •  Science •  Geography •  History •  Government •  Civics

21st Century Themes (21st Century Content)

•  Global Awareness •  Financial, Economic, Business

and Entrepreneurial Literacy •  Civic Literacy •  Health Literacy

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Knowledge-and-Skills Rainbow

Learning and Innovation Skills

•  Creativity and Innovation Skills •  Critical Thinking and Problem

Solving Skills •  Communication and Collaboration

Skills

Information, Media & Technology Skills

•  Information Literacy •  Media Literacy •  ICT Literacy (Information,

Communications, and Technology)

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning 21st Century Knowledge-and-Skills Rainbow

Life and Career Skills

•  Flexibility and Adaptability •  Initiative and Self Direction •  Social and Cross-Cultural Skills •  Productivity and Accountability •  Leadership and Responsibility

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Each unit begins when students are presented with a complex,

standards-based problem

Students create a list of thing they “need to know” which drives

classroom activities

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Groups establish rolls and norms then begin to

assign tasks

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Students use computers, text books, interviews,

and experiments to gather information

related to their “need to knows”

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Teachers continue to help student understand

the subject with lectures, assignments, readings

and other activities that are tied to the project

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Students create and refine solutions to the

problem as they continue to cycle through the

stages until time runs out

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Students present their ideas through debates, skits,

panels, presentations, etc.

Their work is evaluated by peers, teachers, parents, and community members.

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

A critical last step is to give students time to

reflect on their learning, on their performance, and provide the teacher with feedback on the project.

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

High Tech High and the Culture of 21st Century Skills

High Tech High, San Diego CA

(video shown from “21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our

Times”. Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel. 2009.)

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

“Watching a child makes it obvious that development of the mind comes through movement” (Maria Montessori)

“We do not grow into creativity, we grow out of it – or rather, we are educated out of it.” (Sir Kenneth Robinson)

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What types of spaces?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What types of spaces?

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning UBC – University Hill Secondary

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning UBC – University Hill Secondary

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning UBC – University Hill Secondary

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning UBC – University Hill Secondary

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Centennial Secondary

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Who are 21st Century Partners?

IT Curriculum

and Instruction

Facilities

External Funding (Targeted grants /

parent / community funding)

School-Based

Funding

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Enabling 21st Century Learning

IT •  cabling / data / telephony •  network support •  wireless •  server and band width

Curriculum and Instruction •  Learning Resources •  Furniture •  Equipment (computers, Smartboards, LCD projectors)

Facilities •  electrical •  wall, door and window modifications

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Enabling a 21st Century Skills Result

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning What does Project Based Learning Look Like?

Making Learning Relevant: The Hydrology Project

Catalina Foothills High School, Tucson AZ

(video shown from “21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our

Times”. Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel. 2009.)

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Applying 21st Century Learning Skills to Facility Planning Resources

“21st Century Skills: Learning for Life in Our Times”. Bernie Trilling & Charles Fadel. 2009.

Partnership for 21st Century Skills. www.21stcenturyskills.org

National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities. www.ncef.org

Council of Educational Facility Planners International www.cefpi.org

Design Share. Journal of educational facility planning. Includes design awards and directory of architects. www.designshare.com

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Designing New Learning Environments to Support 21st Century Learning Skills. http://www.designshare.com/images/chap6_designing_new_learning_environments.pdf Pearlman, Bob (DesignShare.Com, Minneapolis, MN , 2010) Uses examples of innovative school buildings designed for collaborative learning to illustrate how the familiar box-based design of most current schools was designed for an outdated factory-model agenda. The new learning formats of engagement, problem solving, and communication are accommodated by these "form follows function" designs. Includes 26 references. 32p.

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21st Century Learning Environments. http://www.21stcenturyskills.org/documents/le_white_paper-1.pdf (Partnership for 21st Century Skills, Tucson, AZ , 2009) Proposes that learning environments must embrace a diverse and complex world of people, places, and ideas. While a tremendous amount of attention has been paid to standards, assessments, professional development, and curriculum and instruction, the paper finds that learning environments are an essential component to supporting positive 21st century outcomes for students. The report notes that the term learning environment has traditionally suggested a concrete place, but in today s interconnected and technology-driven world, a learning environment can be virtual, online, and remote. While the relationship of physical spaces and technological systems to learning continues to be ever important, even more important is how, and whether, these environments support the positive human relationships that matter most to learning. The paper notes that the greatest challenge to incorporating technology into learning environments is not finding time and money, but finding ways to adequately support the use of these tools. While, today, many schools have advanced well beyond those outdated models and classrooms have become undeniably more flexible, colorful and engaging, this is just an initial step. Successful learning environments must be able to adapt to the constantly evolving and ever-changing nature of technology, teaching, and learning. Includes 66 references. 34p.

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Adaptable Spaces and Their Impact on Learning. http://www.hermanmiller.com/MarketFacingTech/hmc/research/research_summaries/assets/wp_Adaptable_Spaces.pdf (Herman Miller Inc., Zeeland, MI , 2009) Quantifies the benefits of flexible learning environments with figures representing the learning benefits of comfort, convenience, lighting, movable furnishings, and good acoustics. 22 references are included. The data and text reflect the observations of various institutions participating in the Learning Studio program