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Our buildings and cities were not designed to handle a pandemic. But countries around the world are coming up with design ideas, some high-tech and some more basic, to reduce the infection risks. 
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Architects from Denmark to Japan are rethinking school design to foster new ways of learning. John McDermott absorbs their lessons
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Many leaders in industries going through digital transformation experience a certain spine-tickling moment when “futures flip-over” happens. That moment is when you get-it that the previously marginal online offering has become the default and the traditional solution has become the exotic. Via Kim Flintoff
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January 15, 2018 8:43 PM
Many leaders in industries going through digital transformation experience a certain spine-tickling moment when “futures flip-over” happens. That moment is when you get-it that the previously marginal online offering has become the default and the traditional solution has become the exotic.
It has happened in music, in newspapers, etc., and this is where university campuses and business schools are fast heading as education designers, coders and entrepreneurs close in on online platforms that replicate and in many ways improve on the traditional live experience. All for much less money.
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In a pilot study by the University of Salford and architects, Nightingale Associates, it was found that the classroom environment can affect a child’s academic progress over a year by as much as 25%.
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MASS Design Group is changing the ways health care facilities are built.
Peter Mellow's insight:
While this article is about hospital design, the link to MASS has some great education examples. No matter what industry, the environment we work, live, learn and get well in is an important part of the equation.
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When educators first consider redesigning learning spaces, they might immediately conjure up mental images of free-flowing Starbucks lounges o
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To maximize the benefits of blended learning, we’ll need to rethink not just the system architecture of schooling, but also the physical architecture of schools themselves. We need more designers and architects thinking about how schools should change their physical design, clarifying the princip
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As debate over education reform sizzles, and as teachers valiantly continue trying to do more with less, a new study suggests that it might be worth diverting at least a little attention from what’s going on in classrooms to how those spaces are...
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