From the Campfire to the Holodeck: Creating Engaging and Powerful 21st Century Learning Environments - Tapa dura

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David Thornburg is an award-winning futurist, author, and consultant and the head of the Thornburg Center, a group that focuses on emerging technologies and their impact on learning. In addition to his work with technology, David also consults on the relationship between classroom design and learning.

Visit his blog at thornburgthoughts.wordpress.com.

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Praise for From the Campfire to the Holodeck

"Few people have influenced my thinking over the past thirty years as much as David Thornburg. This terrific new book continues that tradition."

—Gary Stager, Ph.D., executive director, Constructing Modern Knowledge

"David Thornburg provokes us to situate generative technology as a context and catalyst for designing and creating engaged and immersive learning spaces and environments. He offers a transformative learning model—the educational holodeck—for both learning space design and learning itself."

—Stephanie Pace Marshall, founding president and president emerita, Illinois Mathematics and Science Academy

"From the Campfire to the Holodeck is essential reading for innovative teachers. It opens amazing possibilities for reinventing schools in order to heighten students' excitement for learning and thirst for knowledge."

—Ray Trotter, principal, Wooranna Park Primary School, Melbourne, Australia

"Thornburg's learning metaphors have inspired architects and educators across the world designing 21st Century schools and learning environments. In his new book, Thornburg links pedagogy, space, and technology to design the next generation of immersive learning spaces."

—Bob Pearlman, 21st Century School and District Consultant

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Physical environments that impede learning hurt both students and teachers, and it's clear that traditional classrooms are failing to meet the learning needs of many students. The redesign of educational spaces, both physical and virtual, can play an important role in rectifying this situation.

In this timely and intriguing new book, futurist and educational consultant David Thornburg discusses how the old lecture hall, or "campfire" model of education, needs to change in order to better engage students, reach a diverse student population, provide opportunities for project-based learning, and fully integrate technology. To make classrooms and schools that engage all learners, it's necessary to create a balance of Campfires (home of the lecture), Watering Holes (home to conversations with peers), Caves (places of quiet reflection), and Life (where what we've learned gets applied).

The ultimate environment that brings together all of these spaces is the educational Holo- deck, a classroom in which students' rich learning experiences are limited only by their own imaginations. Whether you are a school administrator interested in redesigning your school or a teacher who wants to prepare better lessons, From the Campfire to the Holodeck can help by providing insights on how to boost student engagement, enable project-based learning, incorporate tech- nology into the classroom, and encourage student-led learning.