Question 6) Can the school itself be used as a 3 dimensional textbook?
Every aspect of “school”, including the building itself should be ascribed to one purpose, i.e. the academic and social education of the student. To this end, any school can be utilized to teach across a range of curricular areas. There are abundant opportunities to use the school, the physical facility itself, as a powerful teaching and learning device. A school designed so that the systems of the school are transparent and easily monitored in which students can “see” behind the walls, mine the data and understand how these systems work are especially well suited to these ends.
A critical adjunct to the concept of using the physical facility to teach and learn is the understanding that teachers must be mentored to exploit these opportunities with their students. So many schools have the most cutting edge facilities and tech labs which are underutilized because the educators have not been properly trained and provided with ongoing support to use the resources at hand.
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