Reimagining the Spaces in Which
We Learn
David Jakes

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Provocation:
Is there a new ecology of learning
emerging? If so, what are the spatial
implications?
Classroom and couches
Provocation:
What should the student learning
experience be that prepares them for
the challenges of the world beyond
school?
Provocation:
Do you have the habitats to support
the development of desired habits?
The vocabulary of learning spaces:
Flexible
Agile
Adaptive
Intentional
Interconnected
Technological
Provocation:
The first step in redesigning a
classroom is to reject the idea it has
to be a classroom.
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Today, we’ll consider:
Classrooms
Libraries
Informal spaces
Digital Spaces
We’ll start by considering the
student learning experience.
We’ll collectively develop
strategies:
Tomorrow
Week to a month
A year or more
Our framework

Stanford d.school Design
Thinking Process
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Please take out your agenda and
procedure.
Identifying the Student Learning Experience
Step 1: One person interviews the other for five minutes using
the provocation as the introductory question. Record their ideas
in short phrases and place those on post-it notes.
Step 2: Switch and repeat the process. If you have three people
adjust times accordingly.
Step 3: In your groups, assemble all of the post-it notes together
and organize them according to similar trends and ideas. These
will be your drivers that you will ideate around. You should select
2-3 that intrigue you. You will use these to build
recommendations around relative to your space (classroom,
library, informal spaces, and digital spaces).
11-11:30 Design Teams
What should the student learning experience be
that prepares them for the challenges of the
world beyond school?
12-12:30 Working Lunch
2:00-2:30 Design Teams
Develop strategies for the Next Steps
Framework:
Tomorrow
Week to Month
Year or More
3:00-3:45 Design Teams and
Gallery Walk
What should the student learning experience be
that prepares them for the challenges of the
world beyond school?
Panel Question #1
What about your space most informs how
spaces in schools should be rethought?
Panel Question #2
If you could redesign your space, what would you
do differently? What would you do more of?
Panel Question #3
What advice would you give to educators about
redesigning spaces?
Panel Question #4
What is the most interesting aspect of the
relationship of your spaces and the people that
inhabit it?

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