“The Innovation Campus: Building Better Ideas”- Annotations

  1. “Being in bigger interactive spaces encourages expansive thinking, while being in a box of a room encourages box thinking. (par.11)” When learning in an interactive space, it enhances the learning and it is better prepared to face the real world. When students graduate, they do not have experience on the work field unless they’ve done internships. The students learn information in a box space will only have box thinking results. If the learning takes place in the interactive space, the thinking will have interactive space results.
  2. “Staircases and halls are wide and often daylit, encouraging people to dwell between their appointments in hopes of having a creative collision. Exposure to natural light itself contributes to improved workplace performance. (par.6)” When workplaces are different, it enhances the learning experience and many colleges are adding unique futures to their workplaces.
  3. “Employers are dissatisfied with graduates’ preparation, students are unhappy with outdated teaching methods, and colleges want to attract students whose eyes are on postgrad venture capital and whose scalable ideas might come in handy on campus. (par.7)” When in school, students are taught information. However, in many cases, only the information is taught to the students but they are not taught how to apply that information in the real world. It should not be like this and as a student, I want to be prepared for the real world jobs.
  4. “We didn’t want to have a classroom because that says ‘In this room, you learn, out here you don’t learn. (par.20)” People have different views on the education system. Many people believe that learning inside a box room will have box thinking as stated somewhere in this article. However, being in a concentrated environment, you learn better than being in an open environment that has many distractions.