Blog Post 12

In Blog Post #12, our instructions are to create an assignment for a blog post that our professor would have created, including the instructions to go with the assignment. Not only do we get to create an assignment but we also have to DO the assignment (a double whammy as I like to say). This is a FABULOUS idea, probably my favorite Dr. Strange assignment yet!

ASSIGNMENT
The assignment is to describe your perfect, ideal, technologically savvy, futuristic classroom. It can be anything you want. Make sure to include the grade you are teaching, the shape and color of the room, all the gadgets you wish to use, the style and shape of the furniture/desks, the tools available for your students and anything you may concoct. Also, attach a photo, or design your own layout of your room, something visual that can make your dream become a reality for everyone else to see!

MY EXAMPLE
My perfect room would most definitely be one with technologically advanced media systems and options in it!
1. First, I would have a robot as a class aid. This robot could do any task from cleaning to tutoring to taking a disruptive child to the principals office.

2. Next, all of the kids desks would have touch screen desks (like an ipad, only in desk form)! And of course they can perform any function a student might need from keyboard typing to surfing the internet, being a notepad for taking notes, connecting to my board if I need them to, having a Skype option, anything imaginable. I would have one too, along with a similar board (much more advanced than a Smartboard) for notes and lectures and classroom instructions.

3. The room would have movie screen walls that are constantly posting proper media, pictures, notes or whatever goes with what the activity we are partaking in at the time. But windows are mandatory, as to not give the children a headache, so the screen/walls are moveable and the windows have remote control black out shades that are easily maneuvered up and down as needed.

4. In this perfect world we would also have on hand any supplies, tools, etc from the past (just like today's classroom) in case our technology fails for some reason and we need a plan B.
5. Also, you can't have a perfect classroom without instruments available for the kids, easels for their artwork, a science lab in the corner, letters on the ceiling that change with the topic of conversation (so #s for math and President's faces for history, so on and so forth). Any of these may cause distractions, so of course I control all of the stimuli with just a swift push of a button!

6. I would love it if there could be holes in the floor just big enough for each of the students' desks, that way if we wanted to stretch or have a dance party or need to sprawl out in the floor and use space, we could have that option!
7. If you couldn't already tell, from the "nap time" mentioned above, this fun and innovative world is for elementary student's (I was thinking kindergarten), so the higher the grade level, the higher the technological expectation should be... just sayin.

There's my perfect classroom! I know it's not realistic (at least not now), but I hope it strikes your fancy and creativity for your future classroom!