Summary Of Ending Old School Nostalgia In Learning Spaces

The overabundance of stimuli that comes from technology negatively affects the traditional classroom atmosphere and should be done away with. In the article “New Class(room) War: Teacher versus Technology” by Samuel G. Freedman, Freedman brings up the touchy subject of technology in the classroom setting and how numerous students and professors differ in their views concerning the use of technology.

During my field experience at Ridge Elementary school, I was placed in a 4th-grade classroom. While working on my field experience I had gotten the luxury to connect and bond with several types of student’s from various backgrounds and demographics. When I first stepped foot into the fourth-grade classroom it was very well decorated with quotes, educational tips, and motivational messages. There were three windows in which the students often gazed out while working. The walls were an eggshell color which was kind of depressing. Adding color to the walls would have made the environment feel a little more joyful yet the students still made that classroom their second home by decorating their desks.

School is a place where individuals grow, develop, and explore their future interests. This necessitates that the classroom is an environment where students feel supported, respected, and competent. I

According to Huff Post Education, part of the Huffington Post internet newspaper that caters to the world of education, companies such Google, Verizon and Microsoft are pouring in million upon millions of dollars to provide schools with the latest in new gadgets and devices. The schools are in return, are looking for technology to revive student performances in the classroom (Contributing writer to the Huffington Post, 2010). As I mentioned earlier, my goal is to produce lifelong learners. I want my students to be just a captivated in my class as they are to latest music video by their favorite artist. Engagement is the true issue here, and begs the question, “Does technology foster engagement or inhibit it?, (Ain, 2011). I for one, believe that technology can do what is it purposed to do, and that is to foster engagement and enable critical and creative thinking (Ain,

Because the student to teacher ratio has increased so severely, teachers have been forced to change their teaching styles and a large number of parents are angered about their student’s “loss of quality to education” (The pros and cons of education budget cuts: An investigative study). The article, “School Budget Cuts: How Students Say Slashes Are Affecting Them,” reveals the results of a survey conducted by the teen newspaper, L.A. Youth, asking more than 1,850 students about experiences they have had in the classroom in the past two years. The survey reports that 57 percent of students had to copy information from an overhead because there wasn’t enough paper to make copies of a lesson for everyone. Not enough computers were available to 52 percent of the students, 51 percent had to share textbooks, and 37 percent of the students surveyed reported that they did not have a desk to sit at. This is only 1,850

Change takes on the course of a gradual shift away from the traditional and into the modern. Such a process can take on the identity of many forms but in the end, they all contribute to the advancement of society. Throughout “Project Classroom Makeover,” Cathy Davidson explores the need for such change in America’s educational system as it lags years behind the modern standards. Technology serves as an impetus to change and reform this antiquated system through facilitating new means of learning not previously available. While technology does have its benefits in the classrooms, it cannot alone replace the interactions between students and teachers because there are limits to the extent computerization can recreate human connections.

Technology connects people from all corners of the world. Inventions like the web and the internet has been heralded as the greatest inventions of man. The twenty first century is a fast paced world, with information available at a person’s fingertips. With this new drastic change in society, advocates of education reformation, like Cathy Davidson, pushes for education to be more modernized. In her essay “Project Classroom Makeover”, she points out the outdated education system, and the benefits, technology can have on the failing American education system.

Wounded By School: Recapturing the Joy in Learning and Standing Up to Old School Culture

In the beginning of our country school building consisted of one-room schools. All of the students met in a single room. There, a single teacher taught academic basics to several grade levels of elementary-age boys and girls. There was no heating or cooling systems, water or sanitation, or electricity. Now school buildings have over hundreds of classrooms with an individual teacher, heating in the winter, AC in the summer, clean water running through the whole school, electricity, and endless technology.

Nostalgia lives in our veins, we breath and vision it all the time. Nostalgia was a disease throughout the early 1700’s, was coined with a mixture of Greek words of returning home and pain: Throughout the war, nostalgic were affecting the troops over the scale of homesick to perform their duties and the only option to recover the troop was by sending them back home. Now nostalgia has influenced modern day as generations expresses time back at their “good old days”, wishing that they could flashback. Nostalgic has even swayed the media perceptive as recreating their old films or shows in the new modern days to fill the gap of their childhood, and showing their children their favorite shows on television when they were a kid.

Through this experience, I learned that is vitally important that children in school have a creative, stimulating classroom environment. Such an environment will stimulate their minds and make them much better learners and thinkers. The classroom environment should include lots of books, visual materials and different activities in order to help them learn the material as best as possible. All these requirement should be aimed at attracting and keeping the child’s interest and promoting questioning and discussion. Expecting children, particularly young ones, to sit at a desk all day and learn is not the way to go. Children, particularly young ones, need to move around and do different activities in order to keep them engaged. Having an environment where they are being taught in ways that are fun and reel them in, will stimulate the students to do well and strive to do better.

The environment in the room embodied St. Anne’s mission on its own. It was comfortable and warm, which embodies the school’s holistic approach to learning. Ms. Moran explained how important it is for the school to have classrooms be warm and inviting to the students, so important, that she referred to the environment as the “third teacher”.

Between the 275,000 United State’s (U.S.) students in 2006 to 2009 who completed the High School Survey of Student Engagement (HSSSE), 65% reported that they were bored in school at least once a day and only 36% of the students reported that they went to school each day because they enjoyed it (Cooper, 2014). Many educators and researchers agree that students’ disengagement from schooling is one of the most immediate and tenacious problems which is conflicting because they have also identified positive correlations between school engagement and

The film The World in Claire’s Classroom, 2000, shows us an alternative first and second grade classroom dynamic that Claire helps facilitate by her teaching style and beliefs.While certain parts of the film are socially problematic, in regards to some methods when learning about other cultures, Claire practices very progressive teaching methods and concepts that our class has covered. Because of using these varied teaching methods, Claire is also creating a more indepth and engaged learning environment that appears to have a positive impact on her students. Two concepts that I will be introducing and comparing to Claire’s classroom are Self-directed Learning and The Four Aspects of Engagement. Both of these concepts connect to multiple

Design Psychology, also known as Environmental Design or Environmental Analysis, is the study of how people interact with the built environment around them. With the frequency with which students and educators interact with classroom and general campus spaces, it may be surprising to consider how many people overlook this important psychological phenomenon. I am sure many a student can attest to an experience in a poor environment in which they felt learning barriers were present and that their ability to concentrate and engage was impaired. Often times, a student in a poorly designed space will be distracted from the negative attributes of the interior space (Mendell & Health, 2005). Since students and educators engage with their built environments on a nearly daily basis, I propose that administrators add to their focus ensuring delivery of the following four specific design focus areas. Namely, administrators in higher education should approach design psychology to ensure that a space is flexible, accessible, accommodating to different teaching styles and technological adaptable. Ultimately, these four focus areas, whether alone or combined, should encourage and facilitate student learning gains and promote teaching effectiveness.