Organizing+Topics


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 * 4 Organizing Topics for the presentation:**


 * 1) **Organizing Topic slide: "Kids learn instinctively".** Goal: I'm deeply interested in the disconnect between students' classrooms and their real-world experiences. I am equally interested in the different way that students today learn outside of school via technology that is often prevented or overlooked in school itself.
 * 2) **Organizing Topic slide: "Things move intuitively".** Goal: This was as close to 'futuristic' technology as I wanted to get into for this presentation; likewise, this was a chance to re-think technology as 'boxes' where we 'do computers' to a 'way' we 'engage' the world around us. I'm also becoming increasingly curious about intuitive technologies -- like the iPhone touchscreen and the TED video that follows these next few slides -- and what it might suggest about no longer being "confined" by technology (or even spaces called "school").
 * 3) **Organizing Topic slide: "Spaces Respond Inevitably".** Goal: A bit esoteric on some level, but I wanted to compare 2 schools (as sets of spaces responding to an architectural process). I also wanted to subtly point to the difference of a school being designed 'perfectly' without a 'soul' being protected vs. a school being retrofitted in a decidedly 'imperfect' way...but managing to become quite successful because the vision of the school truly has a 'soul' and the users adapt the spaces to fit their evolving needs.
 * 4) **Organizing Topic slide: "Futures Shift: Intelligently".** Goal: Ultimately, I think that we all -- educators, designers, teams, organizations -- need to begin to develop a 'future think' mindset and foster various strategies that will help us imagine the 'future' with regards to our curriculum, projects, clients, etc. I chose to start with out-there, professional versions, shifted to university-level work, and then brought it back down to something created by K-12 teachers. Ultimately I'm curious what each individual in the audience would create if they were challenged to make one of their own (either as an expert or as a learner themselves).