- Location:
- Capacity: 28听students
- Type: Flat classroom
Alignment with Principles for Designing Teaching and Learning Spaces
Academic Challenge
Promote individual, active engagement with content.
Layout
Oversized tablet work surfaces attached to chairs provide ample space for classroom materials (e.g., notebooks, laptops, textbooks). Mobile furniture permits rapid room reconfiguration for different learning activities.
Acoustics: Acoustic design mitigates distraction from outside and inside sources.
Furniture
Chairs on wheels permit students to work individually or in groups.
Technologies
Access to resources: Learning Management System, internet (via student laptops). Power outlets allow students to keep their computers charged during class.
Lighting & Colour
Appropriate natural and overhead lighting for individual work.
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Learning with Peers
Promote active engagement with one another.
Layout
A flexible layout permits students to collaborate with one another and configure the space in multiple ways, moving easily from small group (groups of 2-4 students where the chairs鈥� tablets together make a table surface) to larger group activities.
Acoustics: Sound zones support multiple simultaneous conversations among students.
Furniture
Comfortable chairs on wheels permit students to turn to discuss and work with those next to or behind them, and allow for reconfigu