The school of the future has opened in Finland — from brightside.me
Excerpt:
Child psychologists have long argued that changing the approach we take to education would help many children learn to love school rather than hate it. We’ve all heard pre-schoolers talk about how they can’t wait to sit at their school desk and run to their next lesson with their rucksack over their shoulder. In fact, we probably remember that feeling of excitement ourselves the first time we went. But right from the first days of school, many children feel a huge sense of disappointment with what they encounter.
At the Saunalahti school in the city of Espoo, Finland, they’ve found a brilliant way to overcome this problem. Starting just with the school building itself, you’d look at it and never think it was a school. Instead, it’s more a like modern art museum – wonderfully light and airy. Experts from VERSTAS Architects made sure they moved well away from the typical dour design for a public school which we all can’t stand…
There will definetely be a lot of eLearning and blended learning in that school! I wish I have had gamification as a schoolboy.
No doubt Nikos! Gamification would have been great. Along those lines, I would have really benefited from more animations and simulations in terms of the chemistry classes…especially organic chemistry, which really threw me for a loop! I had a hard time connecting w/ the content.
Daniel
Oh, definetely! I’ve had a hard time with chemical equations as well. Maye even a game-like learning device, where you could try various connections between molecules until they click? It would be really cool.
Nice idea Nikos, that would have made it more engaging for me; and likely would have made more mental “connections” as well. Perhaps after a few tries, if I failed to get it right, there would be a “Show me” feature that would explain what I was doing wrong and what the correct solution should look like.