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Monument Mountain school Independent Project alternative to classrooms, student directed learning

Student friendly learning spaces for the way kids really learn.  Comfort helps learning.  Discomfort hurts learning.

Great TEDtalk on use of design thinking in a rural North Carolina school, with students at the creative center.

Good video to show kids about how a demonstration-based environment is different from a traditional environment.

I thought this was interesting not so much because I agree with it but because the combination of images and narration triggered critical questions for me. I wonder if it would for other educators as well, perhaps as a conversation starter to begin grappling with our visions for the future. 

This video, made for business and industry educators, is interesting in how it raises important critiques of eLearning from the private sector perspective. Those critiques present valid warnings to K-16 eLearning as well. 

Kids learn from teachers, peers, and the physical environment.  Video about flexible, connected, adaptive spaces and furnishings designed with adolescents' physicality and 21st century learning in mind.