Weekly Blog Post 7/18/14

Reading over the Next Student Design Competition the first sentence caught my eye. "Most education spaces today are decades old and as a result, inadequately support student engagement, learning retention and other key elements of a successful learning environment." It made me reflect on the classrooms from my high school and even some classrooms that I have been in on this campus. The classrooms are old, kind of smelly, and set up in such a way that just doesn't encourage students to be engaged. I think that this competition is important for us as students because it forces us to think about how design can improve the quality of something; in this case, learning.