Learning+Spaces

Include the names of all members of your group, and your responses to the following questions:

**Jags B, Sabrina L, Chris M and Ryan Scott.** 1. What are the challenges being presented? -Every education system on earth has the same priority list. The arts are at the bottom of this list. -We are living with the mindset that mistakes are the worst thing you can make, however if you don't make mistakes you'll never come up with anything original. -We are born artists, we do not gain creativity, we are born with it. However, we are being educated out of it.

2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to? -The purpose of education through out the world is to produce university professors, we should be well rounded. Intelligence shouldn’t be based on core subjects, but on everything.

3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting? -This university professor that our schools are urging us to become, should not be the ideal human. We need to have balance in our minds and bodies because if we focus to hard on the head, then the body just becomes transportation for the head. If we focus to hard on the body, then the head becomes dead weight.

4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research. What kind of learning space will best benefit the student's creative development? Can more fun and cheerful colours increase student's creativity? Has natural light been known to improve the productivity of students? What is the ideal size of a class? Does technology enhance our learning? Should there be an alternative to desks? How long should our school days be? Each period? Music should be played out. Is there a way to make a classroom more comfortable? To make a student WANT to be in it. How much time should we spend on humanities, math, science, dance, art, music, PE, etc.?

__ __Schools questions:__ Rob S, Sarah H, Sandon L, Julia H __ Creativity is being taught out of children. That we are supposed to be teaching kids for the future and we have no idea what the future will look like. Schools don’t support creativity. Schools should support the arts more. Half jobs that we are going to be doing aren’t even created **2. What is the speaker or author suggesting the 21st century needs to respond to?** They need to respond to the fact that we need to teach the kids need to be taught how to live in the future but that is hard to do. Encourage creativity more. Schools shouldn’t be run like they were when they were made for getting kids ready for factories. **3. What ideas/suggestions is the author/speaker presenting?** That we are now teaching kids out of creativity and that we need to be teach kids for the future. He’s saying that we need to be letting our kids do more of the arts instead of putting them on the bottom of the list of things kids need to do at school. **4. As a group, come up with at least 10 critical questions that will help guide your research.** 1. What are hands on learning? 2. Why is it that hands on learning help kids learn? 3. Is it proven that children learn better with visuals? 4. Is it proven that bright colors, and natural light help students learn? 5. How does having more physical activity help students in the long run? 6. What effect does lack of nutrient have on students? 7. Does having more kids in a classroom help people become more social in there future or less? 8. Does technology help us learn better in school? 9. Should teachers use outside discusstions in addition to basic text? 10. Does having a range of different work spaces help the student body learn?
 * 1. What are the challenges being presented? **
 * What conditions help the most for children to learn? **