Human Interest

Good design should consider the context within which the building is set. Great to see green space being added to a dense urban environment bringing benefits to the children at the school, wildlife and providing a little urban cooling and SUDs. 

We need more of this happening! Asap...

The NSW School Museum of Public Education website provides a range of digital resources that can be used by teachers for the area of study Change and Continuity in the local area.  The school museum is located in North Ryde and dates back to 1877. 

The NSW Schoolhouse Museum “collects and preserves objects and items relating to the history of public education in NSW” such as early texts, pupils’ work, teaching resources and items from children’s daily lives.  The museum provides students with primary sources of information regarding school life dating back to 1877. 

Whilst the museum offers excursions, the website contains rich digital resources for student inquiry.  The digital content accessible via the website allows students to compare life of the past to that of today through the focus of schooling.  This content includes a flickr account (https://www.flickr.com/photos/nswschoolhousemuseum/) with rich visual photographic resources, an online archive of the museum’s collection (http://ehive.com/what-is-ehive), fact sheets such as “Early School Days” which recounts traveling to school, discipline, and what children took to school and youtube videos. These technologies allow students to “transcend the passive learner role” and take control of their learning. (Mishra, & Koehler, 2006, p. 1035)

The varied digital resources provide teachers and students with wide scope of inquiry and diversity of representations.  To use in the classroom, students could be shown the photos from the museums flickr account to make a comparison with the classroom the students are in.  After making a list of the similarities and differences, a class discussion about the change and continuity could follow.  Through this inquiry approach to pedagogy, “students are producing knowledge by investigating a situation” (Gilbert & Hoepper, 2014, p. 46).

Gilbert, R. & Hoepper, B. (2014). Teaching Humanities and Social Sciences; History, Geography, Economics & Citizenship in the Australian Curriculum. 5th Edition. South Melbourne: Cengage Learning Australia. (Chapter 3 Planning for teaching through critical inquiry)

Mishra, P. & Koehler, M.J. (2006). Technological Pedagogical Content Knowledge: A

Framework for Teacher Knowledge. Teachers College Record Volume 108, Number 6, pp.1017-1054

This site is well structured, informative, easy to read and easy to navigate.  A great example of how to set up a site which effectively informs teachers about what you have to offer. 

So so so Green! 

Este sorprendente proyecto se localiza en las proximidades de la ciudad de Rouen, al NO de París. 

Obra del estudio de arquitectura francés Archi5 en colaboración con B. Huidobro, ha sido premiado en el certamen Architizer A+ Awards de 2014 en la categoría de "Tipología". 

Como se puede observar en la imagen adjunta, su principal características es el techo verde con el que se ha cubierto el edificio destinado a la enseñanza de mecánica. La integración con un cercano parque urbano es impresionante.

La comunidad bonaerense de arquitectura y diseño Arqa se hizo eco de este proyecto en 2011, incluyendo en su entrada imágenes de algunos de los planos. En los mismos se puede apreciar que uno de los principales escollos que se tuvieron que salvar fue la calle que divide los distintos edificios de los que se compone el liceo. No obstante, el problema se solucionó con la construcción de un edificio-puente.

Más imágenes en la web de Archi5

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