Topics: Color, Collaboration, Active Learning, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, quick ship, Compass, Educators
Can We Find Togetherness Through Technology?
Although it’s not the same as being together in one room, people have been able to come together through the power of technology in 2020. Due to the pandemic, students are learning remotely, workers are telecommuting, and holiday get-togethers are taking place online to minimize the risk of spreading COVID-19. While it has been an adjustment with many challenges to move many of our activities online, there is also great opportunity being presented this year with new achievements in virtual togetherness.
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Top 10 Things Teachers Want in Their Classrooms
Do you ever wonder how teachers would design the classroom of their dreams, if given the opportunity? We did! That’s why we interviewed gifted, passionate teachers to ask what’s on their wish list. We took their answers to educational designers Sylvia Kowalk and Robin Randall of Legat Architects so they could work their magic and render the dream classrooms. Using the Compass line by MooreCo, Sylvia and Robin created ideal STEM spaces and displayed their render-to-reality presentation during the fourth session of Thrive Together: Creating the Classrooms of Tomorrow webinar. Click here to watch the session!
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How We Move Forward: A Better Future for Our Nation Starts with Students
On October 22nd, MooreCo was pleased to host our Thrive Together: Creating the Classrooms of Tomorrow fall webinar. Over the course of two days, we heard from several experts from the fields of education, manufacturing, and architecture and design. Each speaker had a wealth of information to share and a palpable passion for bettering educational environments to serve our nation’s students.
Read MoreTopics: Active Learning, Human Development, Designer's Corner, Covid-19, Back-To-School, Hybrid Classroom, remote, hybrid, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Expert Analysis
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Full STEAM Ahead: Prioritizing Inclusion and Discovery in Tomorrow's Classrooms
How can we help all students learn, given the events of this year? 2020 brought problems with traditional models of learning to the forefront, further widening existing learning gaps and leaving groups of students behind.
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The classroom is in the middle of its most significant design evolution in decades. The combination of post-pandemic instructional realities, a deepening research base on how environment affects learning, and five years of school administrators observing what actually works has produced a design direction that's more evidence-based, more student-centered, and more holistic than anything that came before it.
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Topics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Working from Home, Technology, Learning From Home, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Educators
Topics: Active Learning, Active Classroom, Working from Home, Learn from Home, Covid-19, Hybrid Classroom, remote, i3sixty
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School budgets are finite. The demands on them are not. When administrators and procurement teams are evaluating classroom redesigns, the question is never whether blended learning is worth investing in — research consistently says it is — but how to implement it in a way that delivers lasting instructional value without overextending limited funds.
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Every teacher knows the challenge: a classroom of 25 or 30 students, each with different learning styles, different social needs, and different relationships with the material. The traditional model asks everyone to engage in the same way at the same time — and for a significant portion of students, it doesn't work well.
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