The design of schools should account for advances in technology and consider how those changes will affect the way students learn, according to learning advocates who discuss the future of school design in this article from the BBC.
"Planners have to understand what the education of the future will be like to prevent them designing something that will soon become outdated."
"Education consultant Les Watson says there is a danger that those planning schools for the future create something that 'constricts the learning of the future'."
"Learning consultant Professor Stephen Heppell sees the constant movement from class to class, that characterises today's schools, as a huge waste of time that is preventable."
"'And yet in so many schools we come to the end of the lesson - we ring a bell, we stop them doing what they are doing and then we take them into another box.'"
"Passing a large volume of children through a narrow opening like a corridor or stairwell is bound to create friction and problems, he says."
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