learning spaces

Retail Spaces, Learning Spaces...

A podcast that I enjoy and learn from is Out of School, hosted by Fraser Speirs and Bradley Chambers. On a recent episode, Frasier talked with Don Orth of Hillbrook School. The conversation turned to learning spaces and a discussion about the research they are doing as they observe students and teachers interact and create a classroom space from what was once a computer lab. They speculated on possible software that could be used in that analysis. This morning I saw an interesting video over at the New York Times which highlighted and discussed similar software being used by retail businesses to track and anaylyse customer behavior. I hadn’t considered that businesses use the wi-fi signals from customers phones to track customers in the store. Have always wanted to do something like this to track my movements throughout the school during the course of a school day. Maybe something to look into. Of course I would first have to gain access to our access points.