this action
propose a reconsideration on the concept of lesson plan in education
and the way this affects how learning takes place
Over the last
fifty years the design of learning environments has changed more
dramatically for kindergarteners than for university students.
However, as lifelong learning becomes increasingly important to
the future of Europe's knowledge economy, more care needs to be
given to designing and managing spaces, artefacts and social orchestration,
in order to make learning more effective at all levels of life.
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THE PRODUCTION OF EDUCATIONAL FORMATS
The traditional lesson plan is no longer the best tool
for the job—it does not allow for creative and contingent
activities in the classroom, or take into account the different
interests, motivations and abilities of the learners. Yet despite
these fundamental flaws, lesson plans continue to control classroom
planning/learning because, thus far, the only other alternative
has been the open-ended and seemingly unplanned lesson. The use
of the traditional lesson plan has become so pervasive that it
is now utilised in lessons employing Information Communication
Technologies (ICT) and impacts the underlying structure of Learning
Management Systems(LMS), both of which, in turn, are influencing
both distance- and face-to-face teaching and learning.
We have fully explored the Educational Formats concept and, through
creative sessions and field work in various educational domains
(including classroom and work-place learning, music and sports)
have further developed it, representing it graphically and in
mock-ups that were tested in formal and informal educational settings.
It is still an on-going concept currently embodied in the graphic
schema and in tentative adds-on to the Moodle LMS.