Effective Learning Environments
This Mind Map was made for the Undesrtanding Learning Environments class in the MABA program at Universidad Santo Tomás. Authors: Paul Ames Casas, Andrey Mauricio Sierra Cifuentes, Juli Catalina Mendoza Monroy
1. Community as Classroom
1.1. Real scenarios where learning and appication of acquired knowledge and skills is possible
1.1.1. The more connetions our brain makes to something the more likely our everyday thoughts are to lead us (Beck, 2011)
2. Sense of Community
2.1. Favorable climate
2.1.1. Emotional & Social Safety
2.1.1.1. A warm and supportive relationship encourages students to actively participate in their learning experiences (Hattie, 2005)
2.1.2. Challenging and respectful
2.2. Sense of belonging
2.2.1. Diverse and inclusive (UNESCO, 2019)
2.3. The classroom, as a community, could indeed have a mental life that is not just the aggregate of individual mental lives but something that provides a rich context within which those individual mental lives take on new value (Scardamalia and Bereiter, 2006, p.17)
3. Inviting Atmosphere
3.1. Illuminated
3.1.1. Real scenarios
3.2. Nature connected
3.2.1. Physical spaces that we inhabit form us and define us (Bosch, 2018, p. 2)
3.3. Decorated
3.3.1. Colorful, interactive, and dynamic
4. What conditions build effective learning environments?
5. Flexible & Dynamic
5.1. Interconnected
5.2. Ubiquitous
5.2.1. Should not be limited to a specific moment in the learning process (Correa, 2008)
5.3. Multi-modal
6. Student Centered
6.1. Project based
6.1.1. A project should give students opportunities to build such 21st century skills as collaboration, communication, critical thinking, and the use of technology, which will serve them well in the workplace and life. (Larmer & Mergendoller, 2010)
6.2. Collaborative
7. Curriculum
7.1. Real world and relevant
7.1.1. Goals go beyond content and lead the students to improve their skills
7.2. Authentic
7.3. Constructive, sequential, and interlinked
7.4. Virtual learning environments as a means to structure, manage, and deliver activities
7.4.1. Use the technology primarily to increase and improve communication between teacher and learners with a particular approach to the development of learning based on knowledge construction assisted and developed through social discourse (Bates, 2019, p. 187)