MultiTaction turns walls into giant touch screens — from cnet.com by Jacqueline Seng
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A maximum of 24 MultiTouch cells can be stacked together to form a ginormous touch-screen display.
(Credit: MultiTouch)
Excerpt:
MultiTouch, a Finland-based company known for its interactive display systems, has launched the MultiTaction Cell 55″. The display is supposedly the “world’s largest integrated multiuser LCD multitouch display,” which means (way) more than one person can use it at a time.
(re)Designing Learning Spaces for a Digital World — by Steve Wheeler
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Dreaming: A look at Anastasis Academy — from ilearntechnology.com by Kelly Tenkely
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You will notice that we don’t have rows of desks. No teacher’s desk either. We have space that kids can move in. Corners to hide in, stages to act on, floors to spread out on, cars to read in. We are learning how to learn together, learning how to respect other children’s space and needs, learning how to discipline ourselves when we need to, learning how to work collaboratively, we are learning to be the best us.
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![Smart Class 2025: How to make classrooms engaging [Heppell]](http://danielschristian.com/learning-ecosystems/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/SmartClass2025-Heppell-11-2011.jpg "SmartClass2025-Heppell-11-2011")
Workstation virtual office configures your working place automatically — from Tuvie.com
Designers: Angel Sánchez Vargas, Miguel Tentori Gómez, and Juan Pablo Sánchez Duarte
Herman Miller, Inc. : Designing 21st Century Classrooms — from 4-traders.com
Excerpt:
As technology and online universities continue to disrupt education, a new Herman Miller study examines the role of the physical environment in learning. The results of the longitudinal Learning Spaces Research ProgramSM (LSRP) highlight an emerging space – the learning studio – which is driving collaborative learning in 21st century education.
Learning studios overcome the rigidity of traditional classrooms with flexible, moveable design that supports diverse learning and teaching methods. Findings released last night at the Transforming Education conference at Purdue University suggest these holistic environments could improve the learning experience for students and faculty by as much as 18 percent over traditional classrooms.
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Apple University will train executives to think like Steve Jobs — from good.is by Liz Dwyer
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If you want to honor Steve Jobs’ life by following in his entrepreneurial footsteps, forget heading to business school. The Los Angeles Times reports that an Apple team has been working on a top-secret project to create an executive training program called Apple University. The goal? To train people to think like Steve Jobs.
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Apple refused to comment on the existence of Apple University, but the Times says that in 2008, Jobs “personally recruited” Joel Podolny, the dean of Yale Business School, to “help Apple internalize the thoughts of its visionary founder to prepare for the day when he’s not around anymore.” Apple analyst Tim Bajarin told the Times that, “it became pretty clear that Apple needed a set of educational materials so that Apple employees could learn to think and make decisions as if they were Steve Jobs.” Though the curriculum is still under wraps, Jobs himself oversaw the creation of the “university-caliber courses.” (emphasis DSC)
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Steve Jobs helped plan Apple University — an executive training program to help
Apple carry on without him. (Michael Robinson Chavez / Los Angeles Times / October 6, 2011)
From DSC:
If Apple were to choose to disrupt higher education, several other pieces of the puzzle have already been built and/or continue to be enhanced:
At the least, I might be losing a bit more sleep if I were heading up an MBA program or a business school…
12 beautiful and modern public libraries — from furniturefashion.com by Tanya Palta
UC San Diego’s Geisel Library
Black Diamond at the Royal Library Copenhagen
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Photo by Tommy Metthe, Tommy Metthe/Abilene Reporter-News
Abilene Christian University students look over notes and study between
classes in the collaborative learning classroom Thursday at ACU’s Mabee School of Business.
Photo by Tommy Metthe, Tommy Metthe/Abilene Reporter-News
Vision statement: High-performance office space — from Harvard Business Review by Andrew Laing, David Craig, and Alex White
Before:
The Tyranny of the Cubicle
After:
Flexible, Customized Space
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For home-school parents, classroom design is the subject du jour 
