1. Transforming Learning Environments

HAMUTENYA SAIMA N, 230071392

Social media tools can create interactive and dynamic learning environments. Platforms like Twitter, Instagram, and educational forums allow for real-time discussions, sharing resources, and fostering a sense of community among students, which enhances engagement and motivation.

Why States Need to Transform Learning Environments

The science of learning and development (link is external) emphasizes the need for whole child learning environments that foster positive developmental relationships (link is external) between students, educators, and families and caregivers. However, our current education system often minimizes opportunities to build and maintain meaningful relationships and fails to provide personalized supports that enable students to learn, cope, and become resilient. This depersonalized approach is especially damaging to students who may be experiencing the effects of poverty, trauma, discrimination, and racism. Strong relationships and restorative practices (link are external) are ways to address experiences that may interfere with learning (link is external), undermine connections, and impede opportunities to grow and develop the skills and competencies young people need to succeed in school and life.

For healthy learning and development to take place, students must feel safe and supported across all domains of development (link is external)—academic, cognitive, social-emotional, ethical, identity, and physical and mental health. This is more likely to happen when learning environments are structured in ways that support the whole child and are responsive to students’ strengths and needs.

To accomplish this, states can do the following:

1. 1Support relationship-cantered learning environments that facilitate relational trust between students, staff, and families/caregivers
2. 2Foster safe and inclusive learning environments, in which all students feel valued and in which positive relationships can be created
3. 3Adopt restorative and educative approaches to discipline that replace exclusionary practices with trauma-informed and healing-oriented approaches
4. 4Establish integrated support systems that use an asset-based approach to address social, emotional, academic, and physical and mental health needs; develop partnerships; and provide individualized supports that meet the holistic needs of students and their families and caregivers
5. 5Provide high-quality expanded learning time that mitigates opportunity gaps, builds upon students’ strengths, and nurtures positive relationships 

Fig1.1 A picture showing Establish Integrated Support Systems

Fig 1.2 Connecting School and Afterschool with Shared Practices

From: Transforming learning for the smart learning environment: lessons learned from the Intel education initiatives

Fig 1.3 The education transformation model

Transforming Learning Environments for Anytime, Anywhere Learning for All Transformation Framework

School transformation requires the co-operation of the entire community – educators, government and ministry leaders, students, faculty, private providers, social service organizations, religious leaders, parents, and more. In this light, Adaptive Anytime Anywhere Learning Communities (ALCs) should function as ‘communities for innovation,’ which collectively embrace innovation in all its guises and creative capacities. This requires using digital technologies as a collective community resource

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