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We should catch up on our new generation z . The classroom in the future will be different so we should start lifelong learning and give a chance to our Ss ,as a new generation's teacher.

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Future class rooms will be technology enhanced and technology enabled. I foresee a tremendous makeover in future classrooms. The class rooms may be flipped classrooms. It will enable teachers approach comfortably to each and every students in the class.

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The classroom in the future will be something different if the teachers ( I think to italian traditional ways of teaching) should be ready to modify their ways to teach in it.
In the present teachers should be the promoters of lifelong learning so that in the future there may be people who have developed useful skills for life.

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21st centuryskillspupillsneed for life beyond the class..

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The classroom setting that opening more opportunities to the students to move freely and having more collaborative learning are really great changing to traditional learning approach.  In the other side, the country like mine, where learning and studying isn't much segregated  at the classroom the way of the Bart introducing on the video is really new. The 21st century skill need more and long process to apply in my country.

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Teaching and learning have changed and yet our school buildings, physical structures, classroom set-up and class design remain the same. It’s time we thought about how our physical space, schedules and classroom make-up support or constrain the type of learning taking place.

the 21st-century skills students need for life beyond the classroom.

Preparing a child for the world that doesn’t yet exist is not an easy task for any teacher. No pupil likes today’s modern learning:They want to be challenged and inspired in their learning. They want to collaborate and work with their peers. They want to incorporate the technology they love into their classroom experiences as much as they can. In short, they have just as high a set of expectations of their educators as their educators have of them.

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In the future I Think classroom will have a great changing. There will we be a radical changing in learning and also in the space of education.

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In the future I Think classroom will have a great changing. There will we be a radical changing in learning and also in the space of education.

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Brat's proposals are  ideas that have long been put on our school lives. However, while I am perfectly consistent, I stress for the implementation of such class models. If I would be able to organize them.

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The Bert's most beautiful intervention made me reflect very much.
Teaching style and learning style are influenced and influence the society.
For me, in Italian  Primary school chere is a great differenxe between the potentialities that the society can offer us/the students and what the school offers and teachs.
Ministerial Programs  are old and more scarce.
Only keen teachers that believe in a  different teaching Typology make deepening the knowledge other wise, everything risks to remaning superfiacial.
In my school is organising the "3.0. classroom" with PC, tblet and furnishing that lets to the students move freely and easiness cooperative learning.
Creed should be this the future of our school : to study our past, to exploit the present time to be able to become "masters" of the future.

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The classroom in the future will be something different if the teachers ( I think to italian traditional ways of teaching) should be ready to modify their ways to teach in it.

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The boxes must be eliminated in higher education - we have to learn from how teaching is done in the younger age groups and also get away from the audience perspective.

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The classrooms in the future will change because the world changes.

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I believe that we always have to be flexible to meet students' different learning conditions. We should have classrooms that makes it possible to move around furnitures, smartboards, whiteboards and so on, so that we create good conditions and good structures for learning. The classroom also need technology that can match what people/students use in daily life, like computers, ipads, softwares, interactive board, games and the using of social media. The classroom should also make it possible för students to create their own platforms for learning.

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The future of classes brings new teaching methods that are being disseminated and implemented gradually. Classroom groupings, collaborative work, research, knowledge management, use of new technologies, learning by doing, and where the teacher's role changes from being a transmitter of knowledge to a facilitator of learning.
Difficulty: On the one hand the classes with too many students and, on the other hand, the necessary training of the teacher in new educational methodologies to be able to put into practice, because many times the teacher is reticent to the changes

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The future of our classes is to provide wide open spaces where children can learn by doing, and then also through movement. For more pedagogical voices, today, it is argued that their movement supports learning

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Let's build our future together from our past though our present!

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The future classroom must be places of sharing and building knowledge, not just passing through information where the teacher should only be a facilitator of learning, so i think that they should be according to this video

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The teacher have to be young-mind, that meas that he have to be in social network, WA, cloud, so that teacher and students can speak the same language.

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Most school have the traditional layout of placing students in rows

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It's an amazing comparison - school / factory!
So if the factories were modernized, why didn’t the same thing happen with schools? After all, this is where it all begins!
It seems to me that for 21st century students, 21st century classrooms are needed. But how do we do that? In my school, I do not even have functional internet. I agree that the physical space is important but I am also aware that it will not happen so soon. So it is important to start by changing the minds of those who are accustomed to the role of a sage on the stage and who refuse to apply new ways of working because they do not feel comfortable with ICT. When we change that, we are able to move forward.

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Italian school in the past was represented by wooden desks and slate blackboards. Classes were male and female, there were not many books available for study or notebooks or colored pens ...

In the present there are computers, interactive whiteboards and especially children with many inputs from society, but with poor attentional capacity.

In the present teachers should be the promoters of lifelong learning so that in the future there may be people who have developed useful skills for life.

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In our school, Adult and Youth Education Centre, the classrooms really look like 'future" classrooms according to this video. But the problem is not only desks position or equipment around. Problem is that it is really hard to organize such teaching/learning process. The teacher must be in few roles at the same time and so creative. But unfortunately, the universities and other institutions which are responsible for teachers qualification do not organize anything for 'future'

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think the future of the learning is the possibilities to the students to co-build their own ways to learn, collaborating between us. The teachers would be scaffolders, that could guide their students to discover their way to know. In this way, every student could find own majority cleverness, developing personal strategies and the interest to the lifelong learning.

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I think there will be radical shifts but I am not very sure of our capability to deal with such shifts. It seems that the first thing we need to do is to change teacher training policies.

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saporattet places with different kind of laborators where everyone

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New ways of teaching approach need to be introduced. I use the idea of flexible classroom spaces and agree that friendly environment is essential to effective learning.

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In Italy the training of teachers today is not very different from that of yesterday teachers. Everything is left to the will of the individual. Then a lot of schools don’t have space for workshops or group activities.

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New skills for our students. we need to modulate our activities to contemporary society.

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Tiziana Panaro, (Bari) ItalyWork, society and education have changed a lot  in our digital era and so therefore  people, workers and especially pupils need to acquire new skills. The typical positioning of students in classrooms should be remoduled. The grid structure or the row ones are very traditional and take into account only  classroom management. On the other hand the U-shape is a  good way for pupils  to maintain eye contact with their peers. Also, separate tables for groups of students offer more flexibility thanks to them being adaptable to diverse functions. Unlike primary school teachers, secondary school ones make more use of the traditional setting i which appears to serve a  less collaborative function.Secondary school teachers seem not to take into consideration that their students are not only their audience, in fact students need to have an audience themselves. Also, secondary students do not have the freedom to define their own goals and sometimes they are not allowed to bring their own device to school, which should on the contrary be  welcomed and encouraged together with outdoor learning. As for the curriculum, the content of learning especially in secondary schools,  seems to be detached from real life and it can be compared to boxes containing only one subject, one age group and one time-slot. teachers role must have to be redifined and networks should be considered the new classroom because the pupils will have to adapt to constant changes in their future who should get ownership of learning and be prepared to become life-long learners.

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Tiziana Panaro, (Bari) ItalyWork, society and education have changed a lot  in our digital era and so therefore  people, workers and especially pupils need to acquire new skills. The typical positioning of students in classrooms should be remoduled. The grid structure or the row ones are very traditional and take into account only  classroom management. On the other hand the U-shape is a  good way for pupils  to maintain eye contact with their peers. Also, separate tables for groups of students offer more flexibility thanks to them being adaptable to diverse functions. Unlike primary school teachers, secondary school ones make more use of the traditional setting i which appears to serve a  less collaborative function.Secondary school teachers seem not to take into consideration that their students are not only their audience, in fact students need to have an audience themselves. Also, secondary students do not have the freedom to define their own goals and sometimes they are not allowed to bring their own device to school, which should on the contrary be  welcomed and encouraged together with outdoor learning. As for the curriculum, the content of learning especially in secondary schools,  seems to be detached from real life and it can be compared to boxes containing only one subject, one age group and one time-slot. teachers role must have to be redifined and networks should be considered the new classroom because the pupils will have to adapt to constant changes in their future who should get ownership of learning and be prepared to become life-long learners.

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I think we want a radical change that starts from teacher training, go through the organization of space and you get to a significant teaching for each student.
It seems to me that the Italian school wants to go in that direction, but I hope that this is done in a reasonable time.

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To keep pace with the evolution of society our students need to acquire new skills and competences.

-The traditional class setting may not be adequate.

The traditional one should not be the only way to organize the school environment. The physical environment, in fact, has a large impact on how the way in which the activities and learning proposals are made, and also affects the studenti.Un'impostazioneflessibile results of spaces and furnishings of a class is certainly much more valid as it offers the possibility of incorporating different cognitive styles. The flexibility is crucial with respect to the learning physical spaces

-Another parameter that influences a lot of learning is the role we give to students and teachers.

The students are just passive listeners in a lecture, or are actively involved in the construction of their knowledge? It is very important to evaluate this. And again: what is the role of technology in our teaching? We promote self-learning?

-The Disciplines should not have a rigid separation, as happens in real life, all things are connected by relationships, and relationships. We should prepararei our students to be lifelong learners.

- Roles can be changed: today, thanks to new technologies, teachers can communicate on their students in many different ways.

Schools and classes should provide conditions for pupils to facilitate the acquisition of 21st century skills

I think it is very useful to change the location of the benches of the class depending on the activities that we have to sviluppare.Non is very simple because we have limited space and large classes, so you have to gear up as best you can. Also, I use modern tools because they are useful and make the lessons more engaging and active

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I like to change the positioning of students in my classroom durig one semester, depending on the type of lessons I teach. Also, I use modern tools because they are useful and make the lessons more interesting.

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I'm completely sure that flexible spaces is a method to start changing the role of the teacher.

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Old school buildings make difficult a good organization of spaces but we have to make the best we can.

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I love the idea of flexibility in classroom and give students opportunity to share their experiences.

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I love this video.

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It´s not only Technologies that matter, YOU also matter!!!

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Dear Young Teacher Down the Hall,

I saw you as you rushed past me in the lunch room. Urgent. In a hurry to catch a bite before the final bell would ring calling all the students back inside. I noticed that your eyes showed tension. There were faint creases in your forehead. And I asked you how your day was going and you sighed.

"Oh, fine," you replied.

But I knew it was anything but fine. I noticed that the stress was getting to you. I could tell that the pressure was rising. And I looked at you and made an intentional decision to stop you right then and there. To ask you how things were really going. Was it that I saw in you a glimpse of myself that made me take the moment?

You told me how busy you were, how much there was to do. How little time there was to get it all done. I listened. And then I told you this:

I told you to remember that at the end of the day, it's not about the lesson plan. It's not about the fancy stuff we teachers make -- the crafts we do, the stories we read, the papers we laminate. No, that's not really it. That's not what matters most.

And as I looked at you, wearing all that worry and under all that strain, I said it's about being there for your kids. Because at the end of the day, most students won't remember what amazing lesson plans you've created. They won't remember how organized your bulletin boards are. How straight and neat are the desk rows.

No, they'll not remember that amazing decor you've designed.

But they will remember you.

Your kindness. Your empathy. Your care and concern. They'll remember that you took the time to listen. That you stopped to ask them how they were. How they really were. They'll remember the personal stories you tell about your life: your home, your pets, your kids. They'll remember your laugh. They'll remember that you sat and talked with them while they ate their lunch.

Because at the end of the day, what really matters is YOU. What matters to those kids that sit before you in those little chairs, legs pressed up tight under tables oft too small -- what matters to them is you.
You are that difference in their lives.
And when I looked at you then with tears in your eyes, emotions rising to the surface, and I told you gently to stop trying so hard -- I also reminded you that your own expectations were partly where the stress stemmed. For we who truly care are often far harder on ourselves than our students are willing to be. Because we who truly care are often our own worst enemy. We mentally beat ourselves up for trivial failures. We tell ourselves we're not enough. We compare ourselves to others. We work ourselves to the bone in the hopes of achieving the perfect lesson plan. The most dynamic activities. The most engaging lecture. The brightest, fanciest furnishings.

Because we want our students to think we're the very best at what we do and we believe that this status of excellence is achieved merely by doing. But we forget -- and often. Excellence is more readily attained by being.
Being available.
Being kind.
Being compassionate.
Being transparent.
Being real.
Being thoughtful.
Being ourselves.
And of all the students I know who have lauded teachers with the laurels of the highest acclaim, those students have said of those teachers that they cared.

You see, kids can see through to the truth of the matter. And while the flashy stuff can entertain them for a while, it's the steady constance of empathy that keeps them connected to us. It's the relationships we build with them. It's the time we invest. It's all the little ways we stop and show concern. It's the love we share with them: of learning. Of life. And most importantly, of people.

And while we continually strive for excellence in our profession as these days of fiscal restraint and heavy top-down demands keep coming at us -- relentless and quick. We need to stay the course. For ourselves and for our students. Because it's the human touch that really matters.
It's you, their teacher, that really matters.
So go back to your class and really take a look. See past the behaviors, the issues and the concerns, pressing as they might be. Look beyond the stack of papers on your desk, the line of emails in your queue. Look further than the classrooms of seasoned teachers down the hall. Look. And you will see that it's there- right inside you. The ability to make an impact. The chance of a lifetime to make a difference in a child's life. And you can do this now.

Right where you are, just as you are.

Because all you are right now is all you ever need to be for them today. And who you are tomorrow will depend muchon who and what you decide to be today.

It's in you. I know it is.

Fondly,

That Other Teacher Down the Hall

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Dear Young Teacher Down the Hall, I saw you as you rushed past me in the lunch room. Urgent. In a hurry to catch a bite before the final bell would ring calling all the students back inside. I noticed that your eyes showed tension. There were faint creases in your forehead.

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Ha - the seating order is at the start of every new school year a topic that keeps me awake :) I really want to provide an open learning environment but the teaching methods and styles really have to match this. On top of that it is still a big issue for a lot of teachers to "let go" of controlling the learners. >> HENCE: teaching methods have to be adopted to the new learning
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Excellent video! I think that the classrooms of the future will certainly look different. Even now there is an visible change, but it is not enough. The biggest change is actually in us, teachers, we should be inclined to change. Flexibility in learning new content will encourage students to be more active, to learn how to collaborate. We should provide them an attractive place where they can express their views, thoughts and actions that will lead to new insights in the interaction with other students and learning resources.

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In Italy we are divided between the desire to innovate our classroom and our way to teaching and the respect of the school planning times

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Unfortunately the necessary change is not coming soon in many schools because of the structure of the building, because of the furniture and lack of technology but only, because of the old mentality that still persists. Yes, I would love to produce a little change and I'll do this. The way of comunicating is different, the technology should be in a school as in its home. I already use the moving of the chairs and tables, always different and it helps a

lot in learning and teaching. Hope somebody will reconsider the number of students in a classroom for the learning improvement. There should be less pupils in a class not classes with 40 pupils or over. That's a big mistake. Interaction is important and the freedom of movement. When I think about the past I think about this:

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In my school, we have been using old type of classroom shape. Because there are a lot of students and there is not enough classroom for them.But nevertheless, We don t use the old kind of education methods. In every lesson we are within the technology and our students take their learning responsibility by themselves.Because education has been changing day by day.

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I think, in schools teaching-learning process and how we organise learning spaces are changing. We have been working for a long time with a traditional organization. Then, we take a step forward and introduce the work through cooperative learning groups. Now with the arrival of new technologies and the internet to our classrooms, the teaching-learning process is changing and teacher-students’ roles too. So, this is the moment to take one more step forward and start to create flexible learning spaces to adapt all these changes. Besides, flexible learning spaces improve and incorporate more learning styles.

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I think classroom setting will change, actually we have already examples in some schools in Europe. learning environments will become more comfortable and there will be much freedom to choose what to learn and when to learn, this will help students to become more and more responsible of their own education, that's why there will be flexibility in the classroom and the chance to bring own devices.

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I have worked in a traditional classroom for a long time and the idea of changing it never crossed my mind. Nevertheless, I am seriously considering making small changes and, who knows, one day my classroom will look different!

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In my school we are taking some steps forward in a flexibility of the environment.
Most of our classrooms are traditional, but with a IWB, a computer and sometimes netbooks for students. But, have a look to our new classroom: the 2.0 one!!!

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Flexibility is the key and I envisage a classroom with dynamics of space and time, where students can learn the contents in their ways and in their rhythm, following just a learning plan, for example with lots of technological devices of their own or of the school. But this is certainly also very difficult in some countries or even in our country in more remote areas, where heating is missing or families just have meals for their children at school... .I think there will always be a gap...no?!

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When organising learning, the classroom setting is of utmost importance. However, there are lots of obstacles to a successful outcome, such as the budget and the classes packed with students (around 30 in Secondary) and with no space to do a wide variety of activities.

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I believe that we need transitions on classroom set-ups, physical environments of the schools. However, these changes may not be able to implements all over world at the same time due to financial obstacles.

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The future is open and flexible spaces. I teach at a secondary school and the students aged 14-15 struggling to sit for a long time.

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To promote an adequate learning by our students, it is very important to create an environment in the classroom that favors the achievement of objectives. Therefore, in the same way that activities are planned, it is necessary to organize classroom spaces and times. We must be flexible and take into account the characteristics of the group. We must not forget that the planning of these agents is part of the methodology that we use to achieve our objectives

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Space in a classroom is a methodology that we must design educationally. Currently we determine it specifically for students with specific needs but the same thing happens with ordinary students.

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I think we should first consider:
- the size of the class (How many students do we have in a class?)
- the technology we have: no. of computers, tablets - to what extent can they be used? How can we control them? What about the software?
- students' inner motivation to prepare in order to achieve a goal and their social background.

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I felt like the thing that needs to have the 1st priority during this process is that students need to understand why they should learn and how learning takes place. If they are willing to learn and think that it is important for their future, all these alternative methods and approaches can then, be very effective. This is the major change that is going to have to happen in time and students will start to take "learning" more seriosly and become life-long learners who

ow how to take advantage of different mediums and technological advances.

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My thoughts:
1) Yeah, I myself feel that the traditional classroom seating arrangement should be changed and be more varied, with more movement possible and should be less teacher centered.
- But there is a problem if a teacher and SS change classrooms and have only a 10-minute break to put everything back where it should be and move away.
2) To define the own goals is what needs to be more specified. I have a notion, e.g. choosing a project theme / method by the S is OK and better. What else is meant by the own goal? Since there is a school curriculum.

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I think future classroom beneficiaries have to be able to work on them self and design proper environment so far. We just to be able a good guide to the right way.

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Flexible learning environment is, for the time being, out of reach for many schools. But let's hope in the future classroom will change and provide new possibilities.

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Like in the other fields, in education, is very important try to create a new learning environment. Also, is necessary that the environment can be the most flexible as possible

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İn my school al the classrooms are equiped with smart boards and we mostly use interactive books. The students like new technological methods much more than the traditional ones

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I think the future of the learning is the possibilities to the students to co-build their own ways to learn, collaborating between us. The teachers would be scaffolders, that could guide their students to discover their way to know. In this way, every student could find own majority cleverness, developing personal strategies and the interest to the lifelong learning.

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The collaboration between teachers is a sign of new teaching and training for learning skills, but we need a teconologia conscious and virtually shared. The idea of ​​traditional class is automatically turned upside down and remoulded for apprendomento groups and hourly continuity. This situation is more feasible in primary school but hardly in secondary school. We have to believe.

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In my school we are taking some steps forward in a flexibility of the environment.
Most of our classrooms are traditional, but with a IWB, a computer and sometimes netbooks for students. But, have a look to our new classroom: the 3.0 one!!!

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The key word here is flexibility. If our classrooms are easy to change, arrange and create space for different learning activities, it helps learners become more independent and aware of their educational needs. Unfortunately, at least in my school, it still does not work in practice. We have the same old desks, chairs, blackboards, with some technologies that make the learning process more modern.

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The perception that you find more flexibility in classrooms in the lowest levels of our educational system is certainly true. As you pass levels: kindergarten, primary school, secondary school,... it's more common to find a traditional type of classroom, and we must change this conception.

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Flexible learning environment is the key to make dinamic and interactive our classes. It should have different areas where the kids can work by their-self, chearing ideas and comparing. The structure of the classroom should be at the service of the methodology.

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I am sure that future classrooms will be much more flexible that the ones we have now. Different spaces must be provided in order to let children learn their own way. Of  course we will need some time to get used to huge spaces where children can move freely and do different activities while learning, but I reckon that it will only take some time. This future classrooms will lead to children who can think critically, who can be autonomous...

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Question to reflect on: are our students THE AUDIENCE or do they have an AUDIENCE?

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Flexible learning environment is so crucial in this century which is digitally socialized one, The students can interact with each other, collaborate well, learn to solve problems thus they enhance critical and creative thinking.

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The Future Classroom Lab is formed by six different learning spaces. Each space highlights specific areas of learning and teaching and helps to rethink different points: physical space, resources, changing roles of student and teacher, and how to support different learning styles.

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When we consider the physical space this kind of positioning is really difficult for crowded classrooms but it is possible to change our environment with the help of all the participants. The change is a must but I am not sure whether it is going tobe radical or not. However mobility provides advantage in the means of flexible environment.

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Since it is changed the way to work, it is important to change also the way to learn in the school. Students are supposted to interact each other, to collaborate, to find solve problem. Then the old model of grid seating it is obsolete and new scenarious should be taken into account.

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The classrooms of the future should provide children with flexibility to do work how they want, where they wnat and at their own pace. The old model of grid seating should go obsolete for the sake of the children - not just emotionally (in a grid seating model, children for the whole day look at the back of the head of the pupil seating in front of him/her) but also in terms of 21st century skills, where communication skills are considered one of the most important if not THE most important skill in the workplace. Let the children sit in groups, walk around freely, and exchange experiences. Let them take ownership of their own learning. Not only will it make for a much more relaxed atmosphere, but also children will feel so much safer and will therefore be more interested in the subjects you are trying to cover. Let them try out their skills in problems arising from real-world situations through projects which really teach several suzbjects at once, and show children how everything they do is connected somehow. Using ICT is just one method of doing this.

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Education must consider new skills and new spaces. The environment has a strong impact on the way of learning and influences the students' outcomes. The classroom arrangement is very important: according to it we can define the teaching approach and influence the students' learning. There are different and many learning styles. Teachers have to promote flexible class and flexibility in terms of approaches.

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Future classrooms have to change into a flexible learning environment. the structure of the room doesn't need to static. it could be furnished to allow different settings.
Furthermore technologi enables today to our current teaching praksis - one teacher, one class at a certain determined time. this hasn't to be the case. we have te technologies to change it and make teaching more flexible and independent on place and time.

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Unfortunately, if you don´t have your own classroom it is difficult to change the disposition  òf desks and chair for one sesion. I think that currently the Governments ate doing a big effort to have laptops, projectors, tablets... But for me it isn´t  the most important thing. Our students have to cooperate with their mates and teachers and feel confortable in classroom. Technology is an important tool, not everything.

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In my opinion, classrooms in the future will might have a shift towards learning in open and flexible spaces, as a result  of community progress and integration of new technologies in schools, but some principles  and costumes will remain the same, taking into consideration for example the positioning of students and desks in the classrooms since the past towards today.

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Well...Most of the schools where I've taught, here in Italy,  were definitely stuck to the grid/row model - and my present school still is. I've seen some attempts at the U-Shape, but that was before we were invaded  by very strict Safety Regulations and overcrowded classes.  Separate groups of tables are often arranged for  specific group work. Anyway, desks are not nailed to the floor and we can move them as we like, according to the kind of  learning activity we wish to carry out :)
Technology  can certainly represents a great tool and a powerful way to create new learning environments, but it's a just a tool, and teachers must learn to use it to make it  an effective support for learning. Having a smart board in almost all classes and using it just to show a movie, some slides or images, or the pages of a book - does not make a lesson  so much different from a "chalk & talk" lesson.
And when I asked my students to use their mobile phones in the class, for a learning activities...My colleagues reminded me that using mobile phones at school was forbidden ;)

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After having watched the interesting presentation of Mr   Bart Verswijvel about the evolution of classrooms throughout the history, I think that in some schools, the scenarios have not unluckily changed that much. I have been to many different schools,
I have seen several types and I think some teachers are very relunctant to change their practises, nevertheless, there is a great number of teachers who put into practise many different classrooms using ICT, laptops and tablets to implement their teaching methods,
they do not complain about taking extra courses to adapt to new teaching tendencies, they simply love their work. Using ICT in the classrooms is a must nowadays, there are no excuses, we also have to learn how, this way we can learn step by step, it is not the knowledge, the most important thing, it is the passion and motivation for our tasks that students can learn from us.

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Matino, Italy
Bart describes the new teaching environment very clearly. I agree with him when he foresees a more open and flexible spaces in primary school learning classrooms, while in secondary school students are more prepared to receive a frontal lesson. Yet, nowadays, new technologies are also influencing the way we get education. So, some changes are needed in methodology and learning environments.

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As Bart Verswijvel said society has changed profoundly in this digital age. Our students need new skills. The classroom need to prepare students for 21 st century. The physical environment has a huge impact on the way learning activities are delivered and it is also influence the outcomes for the students.

Primary schools tend to use more collaborative strategies and provide more flexible classroom spaces. The roles of teachers and students should be redefined. Students should be taught how to become independent learners

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María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

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María Concepción Pomar Rosselló (Palma de Mallorca, Spain)

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I really enjoy the fact that no matter the year in history we're going through, the core of teaching is always communication: the transmission of information, be it orally, via the written word, or, nowadays, through the digital media. But teaching far outreaches this: it also transmits values, customs, and practices. Another great difference is availability, while in the past even the most basic education was only affordable for the members of the wealthy classes or those in power, nowadays there are many more means to get an education worldwide thanks to the 4.0 web tools. You can live in Europe and take a course or collaborate with other teachers in the USA, in India, or in Africa. There are no physical boundaries for the information in the web and this has great advantages - although the reliability of the information is also an issue to be taken into account.

But not only the contents and media through which the teaching takes place have changed - also the setting is to be taken into account. The old-style classrooms in which children look like workers from an early 20th Century factory workers do not apply anymore to our current lifestyle and its demands. The need to adapt the classroom to the new learning styles and methodologies has become mandatory: if we advocate for centering the teaching process on the students and grant them more autonomy and voice in class, the setting must help to achieve this goal, for example with a more suitable classroom setting to promote communication and eye-contact, like the u-shape arrangement. As Verswijvel states, together with the new methodologies these new classrooms with their furniture and technological appliances should promote lifelong learning not only for the students but also for us teachers.

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Thank you, Bart, for the interesting history lesson.

I read most of your reviews and I realized that some of us have the same problems (like Višnja from Serbia). Although in my school teachers have complete freedom to create classroom depending on the subject they are dealing with and the goals they want to achieve, unfortunately, only few of them use this option.   (They share a classroom with other teachers, a lesson lasts 45 minutes and they do not have the time to reorganize classroom.) However, there are developments! Internet is available, teachers can use computers, laptops, projectors, and students can BYOD.

I encourage my teachers to feel free in their classroom and create it at will!

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I agree with Bart Verswijvel about the importance of flexibility in spaces in order to promote cooperation and engagement in the teaching/learning process both for teachers and learners: modular work benches are a good choice for me, not so common in secondary schools in central Italy, as far as I know.
About what Bart says in the first part of the video, I hope that school does not simply duplicate factory scenarios and just churn workers out, but that it is a place where every learner can develop her/his genuine humanity.

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Joana, Spain                              In  a short term, schools(= learning organization) should provide “the flexible and best learning environment” for their students, because they are  in charge to the maximum development student’s skills. It is our responsibility to change our point of view and  provide this new flexibility spaces.It’s hard as a teacher understand the way they will be able to learn without us, but I have to if I would like to help my students to solve complex problems of the new technology daily life. 

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Joana, Spain                              In  a short term, schools(= learning organization) should provide “the flexible and best learning environment” for their students, because they are  in charge to the maximum development student’s skills. It is our responsibility to change our point of view and  provide this new flexibility spaces.It’s hard as a teacher understand the way they will be able to learn without us, but I have to if I would like to help my students to solve complex problems of the new technology daily life. 

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I agree with Bart. We as teachers need to
explore how a student can be influenced in a very positive way by our openness to explore different learning and teaching situations. Preparing students to become life long learners is important . Being flexible in our approach is equally important for this transition to a new open approach to happen.

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I am sure that the organization and distribution of our classes and our students should change and be much more flexible, as well as the way we work. I wonder why this kind of flexibility in the organization and distribution is so important in early childhood education and is gradually being lost in primary and secondary classrooms.

The older the students are, the easier it would be to enhance student participation and collaboration to solve problems, and it should be one of the fundamental skills we would have to teach.

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I watch the video and must say that agree with Bart's on this point of view. Of course we need to be more flexible and give our students to be free for saying theiw thoughts about the problem which need to be splved at the lesson. But at the same time we need to do all ah them which might be helped the school structure. We must build our work on the past , but of course will continue with the various new methods. We need to show the way how to colloborate, how to become independent learners.

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Of course we might  be more flexible! but we might be helped by school structures: spaces are not the best for us, im this condition we can't give to students more possibilities to move themselves or to be more active in class.

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I belive that it is very important to create a new flexible learning environment, which can be used in differnet ways.

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Formal/ past. Fexibility, Methods and activities that allow collaboration are the most important factors. / present and
future

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flexibility and variety should support learning. Students should be taught how to become independent learners, without forgetting balance , self control and self assessment

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It is sad to acknowledge that primary schools teach students a way to acquire new skills and secondary schools drag them back to the mass-production factory scheme. Our children will raise the next generations and the schooling systems can hardly face the challenge. I consider that students should be given the possibility to talk to each other face to face instead of forcing them to watch each other's back for years on end.

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flexibility, adaptabilty, variety are very important for learners in this ever- and vry quickly-changing period.

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I think the physical environment definitely has a huge impact on teaching as well as learning. Primary schools tend to use more collaborative strategies and provide more flexible classroom spaces. The roles of teachers and students should be redefined, too.

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I agree with Bart. In classrooms in the future the flexibility in organizzazion of spaces is very important.

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I think it will be of open spaces and flexible, even not real but virtual.

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Mr. Bart told the true about education changes from old times to nowadays. But in my kindergarten are using techniques from XX century. My group/classroom is very small and it's hard to have a free space for everyone and technologies, but I believe that we will find a way how to change that.