
The ideas in this book are ingredients, to be combined in varying quantities as suits conditions and tastes. The list is by no means finite. Add to it, adapt ideas, grow new ones, and transform the world.
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The ideas in this book are ingredients, to be combined in varying quantities as suits conditions and tastes. The list is by no means finite. Add to it, adapt ideas, grow new ones, and transform the world.
Learning Commons
Many schools now have a library and computer lab and they have various types of specialists such as teacher librarians, teacher technologists, reading specialists, councilors, and teachers on special assignment. If you combine the physical facility and all the specialists office there, you make progress toward a physical learning commons, a flexible learning space where learning experiences are happening collaboratively with teachers, specialists, and students. With wireless and movable furniture, and the clearing out of storage bookshelves from the central space, you can start to create third teacher spaces in any school. Also, if the school library website becomes the virtual learning commons, then instead of a one-way stream of information, everyone builds, constructs, can contributes to something akin to Wikipedia - the digital space where learning is happening across the classroom, across the school, and across the world. The combined physical and virtual learning commons is a place where learners win.