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The rest of class is just as dynamic. Floyd describes how individual students or whole tables of eight engage in a Socratic discussion, illustrated by images on the three large screens.
Each student has a microphone and lap- top which can be viewed on the projection. “Resulting conversations between faculty and student, faculty and table, student and student, and table and table are natural and penetrating,” he insists. “The change from a lecture configuration could not be more dramatic.”
Education Village / Winona State University
By transforming three former school build- ings into one state-of-the-art mini-campus for teacher training, LEO A DALY plans to create a full spectrum of learning environ- ments for Winona State University (WSU)
in Winona, MN. Fully 20 percent of WSU students are education majors, making this project central to the future of the campus.
There will be a fully historic classroom, complete with blackboards and chalk; to the most advanced, technology-enabled active-learning classrooms, STEM labs, maker spaces, and special-education classrooms.
“The buildings act as pedagogical instruments themselves, in the way that teachers are being formed within their walls,” says Joe Bower, AIA, senior archi- tect, LEO A DALY, Minneapolis.
The technology and furniture work in concert to enable active group learn- ing as well as facilitate distance learning.
Retractable partitions divide the two STEM classrooms and single maker space, allow- ing them to transform into one larger space to host group activities and events.
Winona State is already a “laptop cam- pus” where each student is provided with the technology. Education Village builds on that investment by employing a greater use of digital, interactive displays. The goal is allowing faster and clearer sharing of ideas and empowering students to “a greater sense of ownership of their learning,” says Bower. It will also encourage them to work as a group and bring each other along.
Bower predicts that Education Village will change the instructional model as teaching methods trend from didactic to active learning. School administrators agree. “Faculty members will become ‘facilitators of learning’ more than ‘speakers imparting knowledge,’” according to Dr. Tarrell Port- man,deanoftheCollegeofEducation. CPM
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ILLUSTRATION COURTESY OF LEO A DALY