#TEDTalkTuesday: designing adjustable seats

How might we design flexible spaces for learning?  This is a current question in education.  I wonder, however, if we are thinking deeply enough about this question.  I hope that we will take up the challenge of thinking about learning spaces in more ways than furniture.

How might we design to leverage simple solutions that will improve the performance of our learners and dramatically expand our talent pool?

Don’t miss this compelling talk from high school dropout turned Harvard professor and consider how we might change and redesign to address the size differences of all learners.

The Myth of Average: Todd Rose at TEDxSonomaCounty

Our learners are not one-dimensional.  How might we design for jagged learning profiles? What if we nurture individual potential and talent in every learner?

How might we “teach to the edges”?

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