Presented to IDEO education design event, Bronx, New York

1. Albemarle County Public Schools
Design 2015
Choice by Design
designing a path to change
Ira David Socol Pamela R. Moran

4. The Design Challenge
What must the User Interface be in
education which will offer User
Experiences which prepare our
children to be the learners, citizens,
friends, workers, inventors, parents
for the mid- to late- 21st Century?

6. Library Design Challenge
How do we design a school library
"User Interface" that provide learners
with the widest choice of
opportunities and options in how and
what they learn?

7. Why Connect
Space, Time, Learning?

8. The Way We Were ....

9. The Way We Were ....

10. The Way We Are ....

11. The Way We Are ....

12. Why ...
mindful disorder...
allowing invention.
allowing children to learn to
•create environments
•create learning
•create knowledge

13. Choice
a product of developing
faculty vision and
empathy + space design

17. Basics
• Teaching Educators to
"See" as Designers.
• Accessing Students' Vision.
• Learning from Outside Education.
• Continuous Design and Change.
• Leadership moving teachers to
Pedagogical Entrepreneurship.

20. Choice
What we saw as essential...
•Comfort
•Collaboration
•Creation
•Communication

21. Comfort
no difference among ages.
No one chooses school seating.

26. Collaboration
opening spaces and time for the group
work that is the essence of productivity
in this century.

30. Creation
Environments fostering
Contagious Creativity

35. Communication
continuous open connections
near and far

41. What will you do
differently?