{"id":36202,"date":"2013-01-08T20:08:13","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T01:08:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=36202"},"modified":"2013-01-10T11:13:45","modified_gmt":"2013-01-10T16:13:45","slug":"experiment-provide-more-flexiblecustomized-learning-spaces-christian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/01\/08\/experiment-provide-more-flexiblecustomized-learning-spaces-christian\/","title":{"rendered":"Experiment: Provide more flexible\/customized learning spaces [Christian]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>From DSC:<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"> The<\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2013\/01\/02\/experimentation-will-be-critically-important-in-2013-for-the-higher-education-industry-christian\/\" target=\"_blank\">other day,<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> I mentioned how important it will be for institutions of higher education to<strong> increase the priority of<\/strong><\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> experimentation<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><strong>.<\/strong> But, for a variety of reasons, I believe this is true for the K-12 world as well. Especially with the kindergarten\/early elementary classroom in mind, I created the graphic below. Clicking on it will give you another example of the kind of experimentation that I&#8217;m talking about &#8212; whether that be in K-12 or in higher ed.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/documents\/DanielChristianJan2013-ExperimentsInCustomizedLearningSpaces.pdf\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36203\" alt=\"DanielChristianJan2013-ExperimentsInCustomizedLearningSpaces\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DanielChristianJan2013-ExperimentsInCustomizedLearningSpaces.jpg\" width=\"576\" height=\"440\" border=\"0\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DanielChristianJan2013-ExperimentsInCustomizedLearningSpaces.jpg 576w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/DanielChristianJan2013-ExperimentsInCustomizedLearningSpaces-150x114.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 576px) 100vw, 576px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">From DSC:<\/span><\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\">I&#8217;m trying to address the students that are more easily distracted and, due to how their minds process information, have a harder time focusing on the task at hand.\u00a0 In fact, at times, all of the external stimuli <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">can be overwhelming.<\/span><strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> How can we provide a learning environment that&#8217;s more under the students&#8217; control?<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #800000;\"> i.e. <\/span><span style=\"color: #800000;\">How can we provide &#8220;volume knobs&#8221; on their auditory and visual channels?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Along these lines, I&#8217;m told that some theaters have sensory-friendly film showings &#8212; i.e. with different settings for the lights and sound than is typically offered.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em><span style=\"color: #800000;\">Also see &#8212; with thanks going out to Ori Inbar (<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/comogard\">@comogard<\/a><span style=\"color: #800000;\">) for these:<br \/>\n<\/span><\/em><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/spectrum.ieee.org\/consumer-electronics\/gadgets\/google-gets-in-your-face\" target=\"_blank\">Google gets in your face<\/a> <\/strong>&#8212; from\u00a0 spectrum.ieee.org by Elise Ackerman\u00a0\u00a0\/\u00a0\u00a0January 2013<br \/>\n<em>Google Glass offers a slightly augmented version of reality<\/em><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.engadget.com\/2013\/01\/08\/point-augmented-reality-ads\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Point brings augmented reality ads to your phone, now with interactive videos<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from engadget.com by Zachary Lutz<br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #ffffff;\">.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.polygon.com\/2013\/1\/8\/3851020\/disney-partners-with-toy-company-la-billionaire-to-make-augmented\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Disney partners with toy company, LA billionaire to make augmented reality toy\u00a0app<\/strong><\/a> &#8212; from polygon.com by\u00a0Alexa Ray Corriea<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>A relevant addendum on 1\/10\/12:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/newsround\/20789777\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-36283\" alt=\"TryBeingMe-Jan2013\" src=\"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TryBeingMe-Jan2013.jpg\" width=\"499\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TryBeingMe-Jan2013.jpg 499w, https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/TryBeingMe-Jan2013-150x108.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 499px) 100vw, 499px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From DSC: The other day, I mentioned how important it will be for institutions of higher education to increase the priority of experimentation. But, for a variety of reasons, I believe this is true for the K-12 world as well. Especially with the kindergarten\/early elementary classroom in mind, I created the graphic below. Clicking on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,394,224,72,32,533,419,46,228,87,223,199,69,84],"tags":[595,761,686,103,620,296,606,56,808,229,688,615,685,671,70,612],"class_list":["post-36202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-accessibility-udl","category-attention","category-augmented-reality","category-daniel-s-christian","category-education-technology","category-experimentation","category-ideas-teaching","category-k-12-related","category-learning-preferences","category-learning-spaces","category-learning-theories","category-more-voice-more-choice-more-control","category-personalizedcustomized-learning","category-smart-classrooms","tag-accessibility","tag-attention","tag-augmented-reality","tag-cognition","tag-cognitive-psychology-computing","tag-customized-learning","tag-daniel-s-christian","tag-educational-technology","tag-experimentation","tag-ideas","tag-learning-preferences","tag-learning-spaces","tag-learning-theories","tag-more-choice-more-control","tag-personalized-learning","tag-smart-classrooms"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36202"}],"version-history":[{"count":27,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36285,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36202\/revisions\/36285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}