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SCHOOL 2.0 — Designing Tomorrow’s Schools

This video shows how old and outdated school buildings can be brought back to life inexpensively to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.

School 2.0 - Designing Tomorrow's Schools (Full Version) - Fielding Nair International This video shows how old and dysfunctional school buildings can be brought back to life inexpensively to meet the needs of 21st Century learners.

The Classroom is Obsolete — It’s Time for Something New

By Prakash Nair
Education Week

http://fieldingnair.com/Publications/The%20Classroom%20is%20Obsolete%20-%20Ed%20Week.pdf

Leaner, More Effective Schools

Twenty-first century school configuration reduces operational expenditures and promotes student learning.

By Randall Fielding, November 2012, School Business Affairs Magazine

Educational spaces, whose designs are based on research in effective learning, where multiple modalities and individualized learning are accommodated, aren’t as expensive as you might think. At the most basic level, using a portion of the funds allocated to maintenancefor modest renovations leads to leaner, safer, more effective school facilities. But to accomplish this objective, our preconceptions about what a school should look like must be challenged, and that can be difficult. School buildings, and particularly classrooms, have moved beyond being simple spaces; they are now iconic. The idea of changing their fundamental structure seems too radical to consider. But it shouldn’t be.

http://fieldingnair.com/Publications/SBA_Article_Randy_Fielding_Nov2012.pdf

A Comfortable Truth: Well-Planned Classrooms Make a Difference

Kids don't have to squirm to learn.

By Prakash Nair, Randall Fielding

A Comfortable Truth: Well-Planned Classrooms Make a Difference Credit: Pete McArthur If we were to assemble a list of adjectives to describe school, comfortable would not make the cut. Many of the places where vital teaching occurs, if not designed expressly f