Classrooms – what staff say

Posted on: 27 March 2015
By: saundeg
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a) Classroom technology

• It needs to be simple and work
• Standard whiteboards were still quite critical
• Front position of display can dictate pedagogy
• Support for mobile ‘lectern’
• Support for plug and play and own devices
• Support for capability to display on any wall

b) Basic fixtures and fittings

• Need good:
  • Lighting
  • Ventilation
  • Bright walls or glass walls
  • Blinds that work

c) Furniture

• Needs to be lightweight, easily moved
• Not too much of it in the space available
• Allowing for fast, flexible re-configuration of the room
• Need to facilitate group work

d) Layout and capacity

• Stop with the rows being the norm
• Innovative arrangements
• Circles, semi-circles
• Lecturer in the middle
• Lecturer not restricted by location of display device

e) Old technology

• Must still have whiteboards
• Flip charts
• Have digital display screen positioned separately to whiteboard
• Use these old technologies as well as modern display approaches