Tag Archives: learning spaces

Smartphones connect art students to sights and sounds of Montréal

| January 31, 2019 | 0 responses

Many teachers see smartphones as weapons of mass distraction in the classrooms and have become convinced smartphones and school are a bad mix. With a smartphone, a student is connected to all their friends and millions of strangers on a vast virtual world of attention-grabbing apps. While there are many legitimate concerns over smartphone use in […] … learn more→

My nomadic class

| April 16, 2015 | 0 responses

My course this past semester began like so many others: 14 students and I arrived every Tuesday and Thursday morning in an uninspiring space of concrete-block walls and fluorescent lighting, with few windows and fixed desks all facing forward, ill suited to the discussion-based, flipped format of the class. So, a couple of weeks into […] … learn more→