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What will future primary schools be like? (UK)
http://tinyurl.com/5xjzvv What will future primary schools be like? What do you want your primary school to be like? What is your vision for learning? How will ICT influence and support it? And will your new school environment, physical and virtual, meet the aspirations of your pupils? The aim of this ambitious 14-year scheme, worth £1.9bn in the first three years, is to rebuild and remodel at least half of England's 18,000 primary schools. It's about creating schools equipped for 21st-century learning, at the heart of their communities, in reach of every family. |
 
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Best in School Design
http://www.edutopia.org/school-design-designshare-awards-2007 Forward Thinking: 2007 DesignShare Awards Honor the Best in School Design Three exemplary schools reveal the shape of things to come. |
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Evaluation of Building Schools for the Future (UK)
http://tinyurl.com/29lqst Evaluation of Building Schools for the Future - 1st Annual Report .. Dec 2007 Building Schools for the Future (BSF) is the largest single capital investment programme in schools in England in 50 years. It is aimed at rebuilding and renewing all of England’s 3,500 state secondary schools where there is need, in order to ensure world class learning environments which will support current and future generations of young people to achieve their full potential. |
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Bolton's BSF Conference Oct 07
http://tinyurl.com/2o6bp5 Bolton's BSF Conference The BSF Showcase and BSF Guides (a video of the Showcase can be downloaded from a link on our BSF web site), are tools Microsoft have built to help local authorities, their schools and the supply side, illustrate what transformed learning could look like and build a robust plan to make that vision a reality. Here are some of the materials used and referenced at the event ... |
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Building Schools for the Future (Microsoft UK) BSF
http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/building.mspx BSF Building Schools for the Future (Microsoft UK) |
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Future School (BBCworld TV Programme: Click)
http://www.bbcworld.com/Pages/ProgrammeFeature.aspx?id=18&FeatureID=28 Future School ... BBCworld TV Programme: Click aired 26th July 2007 Ian Hardy looks at the school that Microsoft built The state-run high school system in America is often viewed as underfunded and overcrowded. So when Microsoft announced its intention to join up with the city school district of Philadelphia it was met with a mixture of surprise and suspicion. But one year in all seems to be going well. Since the project began the world has also been watching. The School of the Future frequently receives visitors from around the globe, and Microsoft recently announced plans to take the concept worldwide. |
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DesignShare : Innovative School Designs free database
http://www.designshare.com Innovative School Designs + Sharing Ideas in a Global Forum = DesignShare With over 150,000 visitors a month, DesignShare is the central address for the very best in educational facilities and their impact on the learning process. DesignShare provides an invaluable service as a facilitator of ideas and resources about best practices and innovation in schools from early childhood through the university level. More than 150,000 architects, planners, educators, and facility decision makers visit the site each month. Architects who specify products for schools and universities make up over half of DesignShare’s total readership. There is a newsletter you can subscribe to. |
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Fielding Nair International
http://fieldingnair.com Fielding Nair International is a recognized leader in the planning and design of learning environments. $10 Billion Worth of School Work: We have worked on over $10 billion worth of schools over the last 15 years. We have created the world's largest database of innovative schools (nearly 300 schools) from 19 countries at designshare.com. This information is shared freely with practitioners globally. We are widely recognized as international leaders in the field of integrating educationally appropriate technologies in school buildings. |
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Future Education : Videos and PowerPoints
http://futureeducationvideos.blogspot.com/ The link above goes to one of the Shambles "Forest of Theme Blogs" pages that provides videos and other multimedia resources to support the topic here. If you would like to see all of the Theme Blogs then go to the full list at http://www.shambles.net/blogforest or click where you see this button 
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33 Principles of Educational Design
http://schoolstudio.engr.wisc.edu/33principles.html 33 Principles of Educational Design he intent of this document is to provide a framework of educational design principles from which educators and design professionals can structure the content of their educational facility development process, from the earliest strategic and educational planning right through to design, construction, occupancy and facility management. |
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21st Century School Designers (wiki)
http://schoolcomputing.wikia.com/wiki/21st_Century_School_Designers 21st Century School Designers (wiki) People who are working at developing plans for 21st Century Schools. |
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Future School Designs at Google (Sketchup)
http://tinyurl.com/ssyxr Designs for the future school at the Google 3D Warehouse .. using Sketchup Constructivist exploration of 21st Century School design |
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Building the School of the Future
http://www.schoolcio.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=192501205 Building the School of the Future Introducing Philadelphia's new high-tech high school Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia worked together for three years to create the School of the Future, an innovative model for incorporating technology into education that opened on September 7, 2006. |
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Introducing Building Schools for the Future
http://www.bsf.gov.uk/ Introducing Building Schools for the Future Welcome to the official website of Building Schools for the Future (BSF). BSF is the biggest single government investment in improving school buildings for over 50 years. The aim is to rebuild or renew every secondary school in England over a 10-15 year period. Working together to create world-class, 21st-century schools - environments which will inspire learning for decades to come and provide exceptional assets for the whole community. |
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Visit the School of the Future (inc. floor plans)
http://www.microsoft.com/education/demos/schooloffuture/index.html See how Microsoft and the School District of Philadelphia are collaborating on the school of the future. Take a virtual tour of the building and meet the visionaries involved through this interactive demo. Including Architectural Floor Plans |
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The Connected Real Estate framework
http://www.verticalcisco.com/FileStore/Education/Newsletter/World_Class_whitepaper.pdf The Connected Real Estate framework is based on a secure intelligent information network using the Internet Protocol (IP) as a communication standard. This network is the same as the networks that are already used to connect many different types of properties around the world ?such as businesses, shopping malls, hotels and airports. Until recently, however, integrating building systems with these networks was hampered by their use of different data standards and protocols. Usually, as shown in Figure 1, each building management function required a separate network ?costly in terms of installation, integration and maintenance. Multiple proprietary networks also resulted in buildings that were complex to operate and had limited opportunities for automation. Education is undergoing a transformation to meet the needs of our information society and digital economy. ICT (information and communication technology) is playing a critical role in this and both the government and academic community have been investing in Electronic Campuses, developing digital curricula, and building richer and more flexible ways of learning. |
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Essential Aspects of Designing a School
http://www.coe.uga.edu/sdpl/research/principlesofdesign.html Essential Aspects of Designing a School Over the past several months the School Design and Planning Laboratory (SDPL) has been conducting research to find school design variables that influence student achievement. Our samples have been in the State of Georgia and may not necessarily generalize to other areas. We were successful in finding 29 design patterns that significantly relate to student achievement. In all cases statistical controls were placed on social and economic variables to eliminate bias. The following list represents findings from two studies .... |
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Ten Fundamentals of School Design
http://www.edisonschools.com/design/designdefault/d0.html Ten Fundamentals of School Design |
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School Construction News
http://www.schoolconstructionnews.com/ School Construction News : The newspaper for school construction. |
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DesignShare : International Forum for Innovative Schools
http://www.designshare.com/ DesignShare : International Forum for Innovative Schools DesignShare is the central address for the very best in educational facilities and their impact on the learning process. DesignShare provides an invaluable service as a facilitator of ideas and resources about best practices and innovation in schools from early childhood through the university level. |
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A team approach to building a new school
http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0JSD/is_4_60/ai_99555577 A team approach to building a new school - School Facilities Before you take your first step toward significantly renovating an aging facility or building a new school to meet changing student populations, be prepared with plenty of thoughtful answers. So how can you prepare for building renovation, new construction or site selection work? Our school district did it by creating a building leadership team. |
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New classroom design to support the Class Size Reduction
http://www.schools.nsw.edu.au/studentsupport/programs/classsize/buildings.php New Building Designs .. Australia The Deputy Premier and Minister for Education and Training, Dr Andrew Refshauge, has announced a new classroom design to support the Class Size Reduction Program in primary schools. The new classroom building contains two classrooms. Each classroom has a Practical Activities Area and Shared Withdrawal Area, classroom store, and IT cabling infrastructure. |
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Building your Classrooms of the Future
http://www.jarvis-mpc.com/cotf Building your Classrooms of the Future |
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Classrooms of the Future (UK Project)
http://tinyurl.com/x6oz The Classrooms of the Future initiative started out with the aim of challenging current thinking on school building design. Raising educational standards is one of the government? top priorities, and this is reflected in the huge increases in capital investment in schools taking place. To ensure this is put to best use, we needed to test out new ideas and construct a vision of how schools should be designed in the future. |
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Key issues for the 21st-century school
http://www.teachernet.gov.uk/schoolsforthefuture/index.htm Key issues for the 21st-century school If schools are to provide excellent educational facilities for the next 20 to 30 years, designs for new school buildings and major adaptations of existing ones need to take account of current and likely future developments in education and technology. Schools, LEAs and designers need to be aware of key drivers for change in schools. |
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Energy Savings in School Buildings
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/energy.cfm Energy Savings in School Buildings Research papers, case studies and articles from the National Clearinghouse for Educational Facilities |
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Redesigning Future Learning Environments
http://glef.org/redesigning/home.html Redesigning Future Learning Environments |
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Geometry in Architecture: Students Design Schools
http://ali.apple.com/ali_sites/glefli/exhibits/1000048/ Every spring at Mountlake Terrace High School near Seattle, Washington, students in Eeva Reeder's geometry classes work feverishly to complete an architectural challenge: Design a 2,000-student high school to meet learning needs in the year 2050, fitting it on a given site. In a period of six weeks, students must develop a site plan, scale model, floor plans, perspective drawing, cost estimate, and written proposal. |
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Schooling for tomorrow? What can be learnt from the best practices?
http://buildingthegrid.becta.org.uk/index.php?resId=551#res551 Schooling for tomorrow? What can be learnt from the best practices? This item highlights the publication of the first phase of the eWatch study showing how 50 innovative schools across Europe have used ICT in teaching and in school management. The report analyses this practice and identifies some common roles and trends that provide an outline of how a successful European school might be organised in the future. Examples of ICT practice are presented through the visual image of a European school, depicting four rooms: the staff management room, the learning environment, the specialist room and the services room. Information about each school is presented from different perspectives, so that you can visit different rooms in the picture and see how ICT has transformed learning or meet people in the school and find out how they became ICT users school | future | curriculum | ICT | IT | |
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Technology School of the Future (au)
http://www.tsof.edu.au/lt.sa/ The Technology School of the Future is a unique staff training and development centre within the South Australian Department of Education Training and Employment. The Technology School of the Future (TSoF) is a state-of-the-art research and application centre in the use of computers in education for teachers and for students. |
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Visions of the School of the Future
http://top.ngfl.gov.uk/questionnaires.php3?qu=VISION Becta has been asked by DfES to seek a wide range of views on Visions of the School of the Future. We are keen to hear your thoughts on what the school of the future may be like with a specific focus on the application of ICT in this future school to enable teaching and learning. This is a real opportunity to share your thinking and ideas as your input will be assimilated with ideas from a range of other interested contributors to inform future policy and direction. |
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The Secondary School of the Future
http://www.becta.org.uk/news/reports/secondaryfuture/ The Secondary School of the Future A preliminary report to the DfEE by Becta Becta is carrying out research for the DfEE utilising data from Ofsted concerning the relationship between the ICT resources of schools and the academic achievement of pupils within those schools. |
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Raised Floors
http://www.computerfloor.com/guide/care.html Proper maintenance of raised floors should include both structural and environmental care. All raised floors require preventative maintenance to insure safe operating conditions for equipment and personnel. |
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IT Environments
http://www.itenvironments.com/ IT Environments are involved in all aspects of the design, construction and maintenance of telecommunication centres used to house the internet community. Our areas of specialisation include air conditioning, electrical power systems, fire detection and control, and building security. |
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Buildings / Construction Weblinks
http://www.constructionweblinks.com/ LOts of weblinks for the construction industry (USA) |
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HK Government Buildings Department
http://www.info.gov.hk/bd/english/index.html This includes not just details about the department but also access to their technical documents and codes of practice..... and also links to the Building Ordinances and Regulations for Hong Kong |
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School's Infrastructure Technology-Ready
http://www.schoolexec.com/a1.html Technology infrastructure is a school building design that allows for the integration of a variety of technology, from networking to audio visual equipment. The key to success is to design an infrastructure that is within the budget. |
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IT Access Floors
http://www.accessfloor.com/access/ We offer this informational resource to the Internet community to aid in specifying, purchasing, and evaluating raised floor systems. If you are shopping for a raised floor, you can relax because your job just got easier. If you need a quick price, visit the Budget Calculator. We have a complete architectural area filled with the latest industry specifications for raised access flooring. Complete technical specifications along with color samples are offered to make shopping for a floor system a simple step. |
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Open Architecture and Fibre Optics
http://www.aatk.com/applic.htm Zone Cabling methods can be used in a multitude of applications. It provides for a higher capacity of cabling while reducing the varied tasks of management. With our Zone Cabling Termination Cabinet (ZCTC), many different types of telecommunications equipment can now be placed into the zone. |
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Connected Classrooms
http://www.asumag.com/magazine/Archives/0800technology.html Several years ago, we could not have imagined how we would be using technology in classrooms. In many cases, chalkboards are out; LCD monitors and document cameras are in. On college campuses, students are not just attracted by high-tech classrooms—they expect them. And instructors expect advanced tools to enhance teaching. |
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Tech Talk: The Total Cost of Ownership
http://www.asumag.com/magazine/Archives/0200techtalk.html Every day, school districts purchase new technology. These purchases may be as small as a piece of software or as comprehensive as a complete voice, video and data network. Every day, districts miscalculate what it will take to make those investments useful. In the rush to buy the hardware and software, some districts forget to budget for key elements of the program: staff development, technical support, replacement cost and retrofitting. |
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Designs for the New Millennium
http://www.asumag.com/magazine/Archives/0100coverstory1.html If an elementary school student could design a school, what would it look like? What types of facilities and resources would the building offer? We envision that much of what we will see in schools two or three decades from now will be completely different. Schools will reflect breakthrough technologies; teaching methods that have evolved to meet social, economic and cultural needs; and design and construction innovations. |
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Building with Purpose
http://www.asumag.com/magazine/Archives/0100coverstory4.html In today’s dynamic environment, institutions must distinguish themselves by keeping pace with changes in technology and society. The economy’s rapid evolution creates a situation where lifelong learning is an accepted norm, and this reality places a new set of demands on those who design facilities. Another important aspect of contextual sensitivity involves the actual construction materials that architects and designers specify. Green products are now available which are easy to maintain, durable, recyclable and economical. These range from bio-fiber board to low-VOC (volatile organic compound) paints. |
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Engaged Learning
http://www.asumag.com/magazine/Archives/0500furniture.html School furniture needs to be flexible to facilitate the instructional changes occurring in the classroom. The acceleration of technology has been phenomenal. Computers in schools offer many opportunities: worldwide communications, hands-on real-time simulations, multimedia presentations and an inexhaustible well of information. To be successful, school districts must keep pace with technological advancement and integrate these capabilities into classrooms. |
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Computer Classroom and Laboratory Design
http://www.unc.edu/cit/guides/irg-03.html Computer Classroom and Laboratory Design: Bibliography |
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Designing schools for the 21st century
http://www.nea.org/neatoday/0001/fyi.html Aging and outdated facilities, a burgeoning school-age population, and changes in curriculum and teaching methods have made school design a hot topic for the new century. As communities across the country grapple with these issues, architects are rethinking how schools will be designed. |
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Schools for the Future
http://www.edfacilities.org/rl/future.cfm National Clearing House for Educational Facilities Research papers and case studies regarding the design of future schools. |
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Wired Versus Wireless
http://www.designshare.com/Research/Wired/Wired1.htm Technology in School Computer Networks Billions of dollars are being invested in wiring schools for desktop computer networks. Laptop computers and wireless networks offer an appealing alternative, promising greater access for the learner and reduced infrastructure. |
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Future-Proof Network
http://www.electronic-school.com/199906/0699f4.html Why build three networks when one can do the job better? Five years ago, that rhetorical question captured the imagination of a group of administrators at Pekin School District 108 in central Illinois. "When asked what they wanted most in school improvements," says Cahill, "our teachers voted for strategic planning action teams -- including staff, board, parents, and community members -- and identified video, telephone access, and the Internet." |
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Little Green Schoolhouse
http://www.ndol.org/ndol_ci.cfm?contentid=1132&kaid=110&subid=134 Parents are understandably upset by the condition of their children's schools and frustrated by the lack of dollars available to improve them. They naturally want healthier, safer classrooms conducive to learning. |
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