Juarez machado biography

21st Century Classrooms

Change ideas of time and space for learning

Our traditional notion of learning environments has centered mainly on places and spaces.

It’s natural to associate the quality of our learning with the quality of our learning environments, but a fancy building with big LCD monitors and gigabit Ethernet may not be a 21st century school at all. In fact, an effective learning environment doesn’t have to be a particular place or space.

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Painter and multimedia artist, author of several books published as non-text narrative and awarded in Japan with the “Nakamori” as the best children's book.

Juarez Machado is a Brazilian painter.

Effective learning environments do not limit themselves to time or space, but comprise a variety of support systems that take into consideration the ways in which we learn best as well as the unique learning needs of each student.

Today’s classrooms look very different from those of the past.

Students do not necessarily sit in rows of desks; teachers are as often working alongside students as lecturing in front of them. In many schools, students enjoy the luxury of a lapto