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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.
Read MoreTopics: Collaboration, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Designer's Corner, Technology, Learning From Home, Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, Educators
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
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.
Read MoreTopics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Back-To-School, Thrive, Learning Styles, Educators
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Topics: Insider, Design, Human Development, Technology, Covid-19, Back-To-School
On April 24th, MooreCo put out a blog post about on how experts were predicting this year’s back-to-school season would differ from previous years because of Covid-19. As information continues to emerge about how the virus spreads and affects various populations, including children, we continue to stay on the heels of what to expect going forward.
Read MoreTopics: Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Clean Living, Working from Home, Learn from Home, Technology, Covid-19
In April 2020, when schools across the country had been closed for weeks and no one knew when they would reopen, MooreCo published a list of predictions about what classrooms would look like when students came back. Five years later, those predictions have been tested against reality — and the results are instructive.
Read MoreTopics: Collaboration, Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Active Classroom, Hybrid Classroom, Well-Being, Thrive, Educators
5 Helpful Lessons for Teaching Remotely
If you’re making a transition to online learning because of Covid-19, you aren’t alone. Students around the world are learning from home with the assistance of teachers and parents. It’s a team effort to help kids stay engaged in their education through these changing circumstances. With heightened emotions, distractions, and new routines, it can be difficult for students to establish a good work ethic for remote learning. But it’s not impossible. New online learning tools are available to improve interactions at a distance and facilitate online learning.
Read MoreTopics: Case Studies, Active Learning, Human Development, Learn from Home, Technology
Whether at Work or School, Design to Activate a Hungry Mind
From antibiotics and the printing press to electric lights and the internet, many of the world’s breakthrough discoveries and inventions share one thing in common: They were the result of curiosity.
Curiosity makes us eager to learn and to solve problems. It’s a special spark that seeks out new knowledge and the desire to learn how things work.
Topics: Design, Human Development, Thrive
If you’ve ever sat at a rigid, fixed desk and chair for any length of time you know how uncomfortable this unforgiving setup can be. Whether a student trying to learn and engage in a classroom, or an employee expected to be productive and creative at work, natural body comfort and alignment is closely tied with how well we feel and perform.
In fact, study after study confirms we know intrinsically that our physical surroundings — from the chair we sit in to the air temperature in a room — make a difference. Energy levels, the ability to focus, and even rates of absenteeism are all linked to our physical surroundings.
Read MoreTopics: Design, Active Learning, Human Development, Thrive