What do you think of this experimental classroom?
Would you like to teach here? What are the room’s affordance and what are its weaknesses and disadvantages?
The first impression is, the classroom (maybe an entertainment center?) is big!
Innovative and clean design.
Would you like to teach here? What are the room’s affordance and what are its weaknesses and disadvantages?
The first impression is, the classroom (maybe an entertainment center?) is big!
Innovative and clean design.
Affordance
- Clean and tidy, a simple elegant design that make teachers and learners feel relax and comfortable
- High ceilings, steps separating different groups of tables, no teacher desk: make the classroom like an open space, learners enjoy this kind of informal classroom, and feel much closer to teachers
- Bright white light, white wall, students could concentrate during lessons
- Round tables with notebook and overhead projector on it, and also every table has a monitor nearby. allow collaborative work and discussion. presentation of every table is much more easier and convenience. let learners engage in groups easily.
- Wifi available. students and teachers can move freely to access internet.
- Wifi is unstable and bandwidth is low. It really discourages students to collaborate in class
- A lot of monitors and 2 big screens that may distract students’ concentration. Students hardly find what screen they have to focus on.
- No LAN ports provided. Some devices may only support LAN. And LAN is supposed to be a much faster network.
- Steps (isolated tables and level of partitions) avoid activities for students to collaborate and discuss among different groups, students may not know their classmates well other than their groupmates.
- Air-conditioning control is bad.Temperature always drops or rises irregularly.
