The Future Classroom

Welcome to the classroom of the future, an innovative learning space where amazing things happen.

Question time about issues that matter

Lessons from the classroom of the Future

We have designed a classroom that disrupts the usual model of learning. Lessons focus on interdisciplinary learning through super concepts. We have partnered with industry to create an inspiring space, one that uses warm technology to push the boundaries of what is possible in the classroom. This is a learning space for the future!

We saw the potential to create a space where knowledge and skills could co-exist, a space where technology supports the teachers and doesn’t try to replace them. We have designed a learning environment that is engaging and practical. Through progressive teaching and warm technology, we encourage young people to be brilliant owners of knowledge, not just consumers of it.

Lessons are taught through interdisciplinary learning with content that overlaps subject disciplines. We tackle contemporary and challenging concepts such as climate change, knife crime, and future food and explore the ‘what if?’ alongside the ‘what is?’
The impact of our work to date has been transformative with students highly engaged in lessons, and working in teams to solve complex problems. Each team has a leader, a scribe, a researcher, and a presenter. The room is equipped with 13 whiteboards fixed to the walls and a motherboard. Teams create their ideas then present them to a captive and critical audience; their peers. The future classroom is being used by our school and other local schools to support teaching, learning, innovation, teacher training, staff development, STEAM Lab, parent engagement, and coaching. We have recently partnered with schools in Ghana and Sweden to teach lessons in real-time to learners via hybrid learning.

Our innovations have been selected by the Hundred.Org as global spotlights for the top 100 innovations in the world. We work with our partners to innovate around issues that matter, tasking our young people to be citizens of tomorrow. Below is our latest innovation Nature.vs.the Machine

To fund phase 1, we reached out to EdTech companies to help sponsor the future classroom. Epson, CatchBox, Gratnells, Biotecture, and SatComs innovation came on board which allowed us to create an amazing space at no cost to the school. Word spread and press releases helped us share our work whilst connecting us to a global audience of educators and innovators. Shaftesbury School trained 42 of its 62 teachers to use the room and opened the doors to local primary schools and community groups. Projects to date are fully scalable to all contexts and focus on the STEAM disciplines and intergenerational learning. Our work with super concepts has been adapted to other settings locally and now globally. Other teachers are adopting our agile learning styles, thinking teaching methods, and ideas.

To find out more about how we use technology to inform learning, please visit our award-winning Hundred.org page here: https://hundred.org/en/innovations/classroom-of-the-future#4c87cd29

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