Funky Schools and Lectures are Homework........

Exploring what the future school environment might look like - an agile learning space?  St Monica's Funky school is pushing the traditional classroom environment.  Is this what our future classrooms might look like.  Full story link is HERE



A few posts ago there was an article on the flipped classroom where teachers focus on student interaction in the classroom and leave 'lecture' style work for outside the classroom (homework).   Have been thinking - in the age of personal digital devices are we wasting valuable relationship building and interaction time by putting individual students in front of individual devices in the classroom when they can this at other times?  Not suggesting that we don't use technology in the classroom (in appropriate and effective differentiated ways) but are there are some things that students might be better doing with their personal technology else where than in the classroom?  Here is an article that explores this idea in action
Lectures are Homework!  What do you think?