Many educators are experimenting with the idea of a flipped classroom model. Find out what it is and why everyone's talking about it. 
Ideas on planning and designing learning spaces from Lennie Scott-Webber, Ph.D., director of education environments for Steelcase Education Solutions 
It's not enough to take a traditional K-12 classroom and fill it with technology. 
By now, many American educational campuses have had their first green roof installed. The ability of a green roof to reduce high summer rooftop temperatures, absorb rain storm water and to improve the life cycle of the waterproof roofing itself has convinced institutions to accept a change to the sort of low-slope roofs that they had installed for decades. 
The Milwaukee School of Engineering recently opened a new state-of-the-art laboratory for its industrial engineering students. Portions of the laboratory were donated by Racine-based Ruud Lighting and Forrer Business Interiors of Milwaukee. 
Six cost-effective trends and tips to help educational facilities meet and exceed goals.
Over a year ago, when we were planning for our newly renovated high school space, we had the opportunity to test Steelcase’s new Media:scapes, a collaborative workstation that easily allows for 4-6 users to connect their computers, iPads, or netbooks to a “puck”. Pressing on the puck, one can easily project their screen to a flat screen display that all of the users can see.
The college campus has a way of encouraging intellectual pursuits in different places. Discussions often migrate from the classroom to the quadrangle, cafeteria, or the nearest pub after class. Why not make suitable spaces available on campus that extend learning outside the classroom, keep the group together, and the conversation going?
Students and parents alike have been impressed with the implementation of eFolio.
Students can put their hands on digital books and information from virtually anywhere, but the library is the main place on campus where traditional and new knowledge resources, the latest information technology, and skilled instructors converge in an ongoing process of learning, teaching, and research.
The d.School’s philosophy holds that space, furniture, tools, and technology are integral to pedagogy. Students are encouraged to display their ideas and work in progress. See how they use their space to promote behaviors critical to design thinking, such as empathy and experimentation.
Although the changing demographics of college campuses may be grabbing the headlines, the more compelling issue is how the growing number of minority students presents serious social and academic challenges for financially strapped universities, even as the schools are under pressure to boost graduation rates.
The classrooms of the future program revolves around a simple concept: engagement. It accomplishes this with several techniques using technology and classroom layout.
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Today’s students want to create and learn at the same time. They want to put content to use immediately. How can you enable them to do so? 
How do you make a classroom more engaging for both the student and the instructor? No learning space is more in need of fresh design thinking than the classroom. Everyone agrees it’s time to reconsider a new classroom paradigm where technology and the physical space are integrated to support pedagogy and create a more active and engaging experience for instructors and students. 
I wasn't expecting much for my trip to the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh. My trips to neighboring states had left me feeling the Midwest had lost its way to a green tomorrow that would standout from more famouse leading regions. Instead I found exhilarating optimism and application of green solutions everywhere I looked. 
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Angry Birds, a slingshot video game played on iPads and smartphones, has found a place in Kaneland High School. 
Four schools use cutting-edge design principles and technology to create next-gen learning spaces, with a focus on collaboration and student engagement.
Teachers who are interested in helping students to learn in new ways also are looking at the environments they create, such as getting rid of the traditional desk-and-chair design of a classroom.
Instead of sitting bored in the back of a cavernous lecture hall or starting another weekend bacchanal,Chelsea Griffin has been getting the kind of education that most undergraduates only dream about: modern facilities, small classes taught by tenure-track professors, a cutting-edge interdisciplinary curriculum, and access to the best minds of science and industry.
The fast paced, ever-changing world of technology has impacted education in ways that are often difficult to comprehend. This article will highlight various types of technology and educational applications used at Morris Community High School.
You’ll be amazed, perhaps astounded to learn that today’s classrooms look completely – like the ones you sat in five, 10, or even 50 years ago. Despite revolutionary technology, the information explosion, and an interconnected planet, not to mention improved teaching and learning methods, the typical college classroom is fixed in time like a museum diorama.
Produced by Michigan-based furniture company Steelcase, the “Node chair” by IDEO is a revolutionary school desk that seems to change the face of teaching and learning in contemporary schools.
Since the late 1980s, college administrators and architects who design higher-education facilities have trained their sights on creating learning environments that support greater student engagement and enhance student collaboration. But only recently has the impetus to extend such learning environments beyond the classroom and into service, study, and social spaces throughout buildings on campus taken hold.
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