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The new SAB building is obiously going to be a bit of an icon
but we already have quite few rooms around RMIT which have already
been redesigned, and the academics and the teachers
are already redesigning the learning activities with the students
around those new spaces they have.
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Jill Singer, Lecturer Media and Communications
The space we're in now is a cross discipline classroom, or CDC.
Now what that means is we can use the space in various different ways.
We have a number of screens around here,
we also have another projector screen that can drop down.
What I can do back from my station, the lecturer's laptop station,
is I can put my work up there, and with the press of a button flip it out
to any of these screens around here, or up on the projector screen.
I can also choose any individual work station to put up on the projector screen,
or on any of the other screens around here.
Which means we can really personalise the interaction between the teacher and the student.
It also means that all the students can share in what each other is working on.
So we can separate off, we can have little clusters of students working on one thing,
we can all group together again and then take it back to the projector screen
and see what's going on.
This space affords an amazing opportunity
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to really engage with your students. For three hours
I set up a classroom whereby I'm able to interact as
much as possible with small groups and individuals.
And that requires me to talk to students one on one,
or talk to students in small groups.
I move around the class, it means that I can
go from table to table. I can interact
with the students, you know, where they're at
in terms of the activities that they're doing.
As far as the interactive style, it's also more inspiring.
For me personally, sometimes it's ... can get really dull
sitting in a classroom just being talked at the whole time,
but when you're able to participate in something
it becomes relevant, it becomes inspiring, it
becomes something that you actually have an
interest in, and maybe your own point of view on
that you want to share and, kind of make other
people see your point of view, and see why
you're thinking that way.
When you think about how can I get the students to apply what they've learnt rather than just
try and remember it.
And this is where the spaces are good, they allow you to have a lot more, sort of
small break-out groups, so people are more actively
engaged. You can get the quiet ones more,
more actively engaged. You can keep the more
noisy ones a little more, just take them aside, you know,
move them, ask questions to others.
But you can get around the room much more effectively.
It's often not hard to do and a lot of people haven't
done it before because, you know, the physical
space is not designed for it. But now that we've
got the spaces, you know, we can ... it's an added dimension.
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