Jeff sits down with Andrew Kim from Steelcase Educational Solutions to discuss how Steelcase is revolutionizing the way we use our mobile devices in our classroom.
About Steelcase Educational Solutions
As lifelong learners, Steelcase Education Solutions aims to make a difference in education. For students, educators and designers, we create the most effective, rewarding and inspiring learning spaces. As a dedicated group within Steelcase exclusively focused on education, we bring evidence-based design, technology and innovative solutions to education environments, wherever learning happens.
Featured Links
- Steelcase Education Solutions website
- Steelcase Facebook page
- Steelcase Twitter
- Steelcase on YouTube
Featured Guest
Andrew Kim is responsible for applying human-centered design methods to support new market strategies and product development efforts. His current focus is on understanding the role of technology within education settings. Andrew earned a B.A. from Dartmouth College and a master of design from the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology.
Contact Andrew @ akim@steelcase.com or visit www.steelcase.com.
The nature of the classroom is changing and students are responding to more active learning spaces.
- Environments that utilize technology solutions, like video, help meet the 21st Century needs of students, educators and schools.
- Distance learning is becoming more mainstream.
- Teachers are making their lectures available to students to view outside of class and dedicating classroom time to hands-on learning and group projects.
- Areas outside the classroom are more useful than ever as learning spaces.
- Portable technology means work can be done in a wide range of areas, such as a hallway.
- Still, it’s important for schools to go beyond simply integrating technology into the classroom – they must understand how many factors work together to foster learning and collaboration.
- For example, the traditional classroom can be transformed by the ease of mobility.
- Designing to support fluid transitions for visual and physical access is a way to create student-centered instruction.
- Additionally, the idea of a teacher serving as a “sage on the stage” has given way to an alternate approach, where the teacher now functions as a “guide on the side.”
- Students can create their own learning experience through collaborative activities made possible (or enhanced) by technology.
The nature of the classroom is changing and students are responding to more active learning spaces.
- Environments that utilize technology solutions, like video, help meet the 21st Century needs of students, educators and schools.
- Distance learning is becoming more mainstream.
- Teachers are making their lectures available to students to view outside of class and dedicating classroom time to hands-on learning and group projects.
- Areas outside the classroom are more useful than ever as learning spaces.
- Portable technology means work can be done in a wide range of areas, such as a hallway.
- Still, it’s important for schools to go beyond simply integrating technology into the classroom – they must understand how many factors work together to foster learning and collaboration.
- For example, the traditional classroom can be transformed by the ease of mobility.
- Designing to support fluid transitions for visual and physical access is a way to create student-centered instruction.
- Additionally, the idea of a teacher serving as a “sage on the stage” has given way to an alternate approach, where the teacher now functions as a “guide on the side.”
- Students can create their own learning experience through collaborative activities made possible (or enhanced) by technology.
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