‘Revolutionary Learning Spaces’, Prof Stephen Heppell @stephenheppell
Professor Stephen Heppell is amazing to listen to, and even better to talk with: his passion for learning and improving the learning environments is both an inspiring and humbling experience. You can’t help but be sucked into his world, to follow his often random thought process in the most roundabout yet logical way. Why do we make it so difficult to make the kind of changes that are often just so simple? His viewpoint always has the students central to the plan, to the scheme, to the future.
This video was posted this morning to the EdTalks website – ‘Possible Futures’ and is another example of his genius, enjoy.
From the EdTalks website:
“Stephen Heppell is at the heart of a global revolution in learning space design. In this ULearn11 EDtalk Stephen explains why he believes that the ‘structures and strictures of education will be swept aside by the engagement, seduction, delight, passion and astonishment of a new learning world’. Stephen shares his conviction that if we want to know what education will look like in the future, we only need to look at what is happening in the online world now.”
If this video interests you, then check out some of my other posts on Learning Spaces and videos from Professor Stephen Heppell below. If you’re interested in finding out more then why not follow Stephen on Twitter: @stephenheppell
Thanks for sharing David.
I love it when he talks about ‘astonishing’ kids & that if we don’t do it in school then they’ll chose to go somewhere else!
Very inspiring-wonder where that school is that he’s building with no capital!
Hi Julian.
I’m not sure which School Stephen is talking about, I know he works all over the world and has helped schools in the Caribbean (shame, bet he hated that, not) but he is/was involved in the Portland Academy – http://www.portlandacademy.co.uk/index.php?mact=News,cntnt01,detail,0&cntnt01articleid=5&cntnt01returnid=54 – although local news are reporting that funding may be revoked.
Typical, just as sometihng truly special and inspiring is about to happen, the politicians stuff it up. Again!