OK, I admit it upfront. This post is a cop-out!
The reality of the start of a new academic session has hit and I’ve launched myself headlong into the world of Knowledge Networking for Educators…which makes my difficulty in getting around to posting for YourEdustory all the more ironic.
My other excuse is that the topics for these weeks have: one, not inspired me (I don’t have a defining moment when I decided to become a teacher, it was always there as something I might do); two, left me open mouthed saying “umm…I don’t know” (I’m not sure that I do infect students with a passion for learning, oops!), or three, too big for just one blog post (design brief for a learning space).
There’s not much I can (or have time to) do about the first two but for the third, courtesy of a subject I completed last year, I can at least link to some other writing I have done (yes I said this was a cop-out).
Last year I completed a subject called Designing Spaces for Learning lead by the remarkable Ewan Mcintosh. It was exciting, challenging, and ultimately very rewarding – you can read my final reflection here. One thing I learnt is that you can’t come up with a design brief in the space of a blog post; the design brief can only come after a period of observation, immersion, and ideation. It’s not a learning space but here is my Design Brief for a suburban railway station. And, this isn’t a design brief, but here are my thoughts on a learning space: Vertical Library.
So that’s me caught up, and I already have thoughts for the next topic on student voice. Hopefully (if I can get a swag of reading, a couple of forum posts, a blog post and a proposal for an assignment completed first) I’ll actually get to write it before the week is out.
