{"data":{"ID":313,"Class":"Conversation","Created":1382722148,"CreatorID":88,"RevisionID":null,"Status":"Accepted","Title":"Wonder, By Design","Handle":"Wonder-By_Design","ShortDescription":"What if school was a base camp for wonder?  How could you create the conditions for wonder in school? What implications would that have for the expedition that students would take through their education? What are the infinite possibilities for imagining, designing, and creating when learning is based in wonder?","Description":"To change schools, to improve learning, to help students reach and extend past their goals, requires special people who have the imaginative capacity to believe in human potential.\r\n\r\nWe begin our lives with learning everything we can.  We wonder about why things happen and how things work.  Our imagination lights up with question after question about our how the world works...we engage in observation, in play, and in trial and error just to learn everything we can.  Over time, as we know more, and become more conscious of the act of learning, and of knowing, our capacity for childlike learning diminishes  Certainly, we may be curious about new subjects and different types of learning, but it is rare to be able to capture the same spirit of wonder about learning that inhabits all children.\r\n\r\nBut that\u2019s exactly what\u2019s needed in education right now.\r\n\r\nSchool, with the classrooms of our past, filled with rigid arrangements of space and instruction, policies, and protocols, requires a new design - one that promotes wonder, one that fuels the imagination, and one that re-establishes wonder as the essential element of the learning equation.  What if school was a base camp for wonder?\r\n\r\nCome explore wonder with us.  Recharge your imagination with wonder, and have the opportunity to see the same things in a new way and new things in a new way.  Most importantly, begin transforming your classroom or school by creating a climate and culture of wonder that unfolds unlimited opportunities for learning.","Link":["http:\/\/jakes.editme.com\/wonder"],"Audience":["All School Levels"],"Practice":"This conversation is based in a series of design challenges that ask participants to actively engage with each other to examine the concept of wonder and its relationship to learning, schools, and school change.","Presenter":["Christian Long","David Jakes"],"PresenterAffiliation":["The Third Teacher Plus and Cannon Design"],"PresenterEmail":["clong@cannondesign.com","djakes@cannondesign.com"],"ScheduleSlotID":33,"ScheduleLocationID":13,"SubmitterID":88,"AdditionalComments":"We would respectfully request being scheduled on Saturday if possible.  Thank you for your consideration.","LiveChannel":null,"Hashtag":null,"VokleID":null,"RecordingURL":null,"ConferenceID":3}}