Special Needs Classroom – Brazil
Computer Science Classroom – Serbia
Secondary Science Classroom – USA
Primary Classroom – Sydney, Australia 
IT classroom -Primary School - USA
- Classroom – Primary School – Cyprus
- The Liceo San José is located in a small village called Requinoa 99 kilometers from Santiago. It belongs to the religious congregation “Family of Murialdo”. They serve children with limited resources from pre-school to secondary education. This school is part of the network of 450 high schools of Chile that are beneficiaries of the IT Academy program by the Ministry of education. The room: pre-school students have classes on a daily basis in this room, they are 40 children who make up the course and in this classroom learn with games about the first school contents that sustain their cognitive and academic development.
Classroom, High School in Lisbon – Portugal
Classroom, High School in York – USA
Physics Lab, Austin College – USA
Science classroom, High School, Vail - USA
Freixo School Cluster – Portugal
Computer Lab, Cashmere School – USA
Physics Classroom, Stratford – USA
Biology/Zoology Classroom, Chicago – USA
Elementary School, Palatine – USA
Fourth Grade Classroom, Loundoun County – USA
Classroom MIT Lab, Cambridge – USA
Classroom in Hiroshima - Japan
Classroom in Odda – Norway
Classroom in Bangkok – Thailand
Classroom in New York, USA
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It’s amazing how similar classrooms look around the world.It’s also amazing how little classrooms have changed over time. With education itself evolving so rapidly I hope that classroom spaces will also begin to evolve into more creative, innovative learning environments.
I agree that having fun in the corssaolm would facilitate learning the best, but I also think that different students would define fun in different ways, and that it would be difficult teaching in a way that is fun for all students. For example, I really enjoyed my physics 211 lecture class, and thought it was actually quite fun. Most of the lectures were mainly pure lecture, with some demonstrations and videos thrown in. However, what I actually liked about the class was the actual material; I liked learning about mechanics and relativity and waves and how they all worked. I also liked how it was in lecture format, because it allowed me to learn a lot about physics. If we had gone more in-depth and done a ton of hands-on learning exercises on say just the mechanics, I don’t think I would have liked it as much because we would get too bogged down and mechanics and never learn some of the other stuff, like relativity (which is super cool). We also had labs, which were more of the applications and hands-on sections of the class. Interestingly though, I didn’t enjoy these as much. They took too long and were for the most part boring. They focused on a single aspect of something we learned, and we ended up doing a three hour experiment just to see some theory we learned in class was true. I guess from this, there are probably more theory-oriented students as well as more hands-on students. There are also probably many other types of students who would have fun in different ways and with different teaching methods.
Blogs are a great source to inofrm students of the teachers upcoming assignments,calendars and hold class discussions. The students can reply and have on line discussions allowing them to see others point of view; this allowing the student to see how others view and look at the subject or assignments.I believe that technology should be intergrated in the classroom, because this is the age of the computer, and students can have interaction with virtual reality with subjects and this would allow field trips without leaving the classroom and allowing student to a hands experience and the technology can make a subject more interesting for the students and also allowing individual expressions and students can work a pace that is comfortable for them unless there is a group project. The technology intergration is also important for the students, because it also will prepare them for the workforce, because computers are used everywhere and this would familiarize the students with usage and computer experience. I would use blogs in the classrooms to hold oline discussions, to deliver assignments, announcements, events, and others class inofrmation. A link to another class in any part of the world to form online book clubs and etc, debates, show examples of good writings, and even create a a class newpapers the uses of blogs in the class are endless.
I am startled by the empty feeling I have looking at these rooms in comparison to the satisfaction found looking in Montessori Classrooms around the world. I think it is the difference between the opportunity for active collaborative learning to take place amongst the students obvious in the design of the classroom in contrast to these pictures of classrooms where the teacher stands at the front and what is to be learned. As technology broadens and makes so much available to us it seems to make more sense for the student to lead their own way, and for us to get out of the way and become an aid to them, lighting fires of curiosity and helping them find the material or technology, that will help them answer their own questions. What will flipped traditional classrooms look like I wonder.
Thanks for your tghouhts. It’s helped me a lot.
I feel that we should be inaitrgteng technology into he classroom because if used appropriately it can help students and teachers and make learning more interesting, fun, and easier. I feel at this moment that computers, blogs, and the Internet should not be used as the only form of teaching but I think that it helps and benefits the students and teachers. I think that with using technology you can open children’s minds, keep their attention, and explore things you never could with a book or in the classroom.Blogs in the classroom in my opinion could be a major benefit if they instructor gives the class helpful instructions and if the students understand how to use it. I think that students could help each other with questions they have and an instructor could also see these discussions and help them to. Also students could share notes that they took in case one student was not there or even if someone missed a part of the lecture. Students could also bounce ideas off each other easily and quickly without having to set up a time to meet face to face. It is also an easy way for a teacher to communicate with all there students at one time to give them updates on assignments, give helpful websites/links, or even just to make an announcement.
Wish I have one of those, love to teach and learn with students… for foreign teachers, I’m very pleased to know you all, Please send me e-mail. Thanks