• Educational Technology,  Indigenization, Decolonization, Reconciliation,  Internationalization

    USask spaces that flex with the type of learning

    Many USask classrooms have been designed with one thing in mind – successful transmission of information from the faculty member to the students.  Even as technologies changed over time, that model did not – we just added screens, data projectors for our slideshows, and cameras and microphones to capture a lecture. Current theories of learning tell us that people learn some things well by hearing about them, but they need to pair that with talking to others about it, practicing and getting feedback, and actively doing for most types of learning.  We are now designing flexible classrooms that can do each of these types of learning in a sequence, all…