My Future Classroom

           In my future classroom, the materials are vast and the opportunities are plenty. They are arranged in drawers alphabetically and have open lids so as to give everyone easy access to them. The tables are the arranged in a quasi-circular fashion with chairs both tall and small so as to accommodate all heights. They would be arranged like this so that my students could talk openly and have easy access to see each others works. The tables themselves also function as tablets with their individual pens and settings so as to be tailor fit for digital artworks. Kind of like the giant Wacom tablets for sale but squared in both dimensions so as to allow the full range of arm motions.
            The floors themselves are a standard stone/granite material still found in most schools but the ceiling would be a different story! On the ceiling, there are panels that show what the outside looks like through a wireless connection with cameras that record real time footage. If they wouldn't be operational at the time, then the ceiling could display stock videos of other areas so the students could also draw under the stars and under the sea. Walls would fall in between the floor and ceiling (literally) in that they would still be constructed of stone and have boards attached to them, but there would also be digital displays and TVs in certain areas. On the screen, there would be a recurring showing of pictures showing the fundamentals of any particular medium on would also display the assignments as they came and went.
           Along with this, I would have the displays showing current events in world with an emphasis on artistic events. Art today isn't really made in a bubble so allowing the students to express their views on recent matters would also allow them to think more critically about their own worldviews. Plus new ideas could spring up from something found in the media so giving the students that chance to fully think for themselves can open its own doors.