NZ+student+and+teacher+perspectives

=Student voice at Albany Senior High School =

**__The Learning Space design__**

**- Student identify their learning space as "open plan learning with no walls separating classes and a large community room which can have up to 3 or 4 classes happening at one time."**

**- "it's an area where we can walk around freely, talk freely and study freely without being under pressure in an enclosed space"**

**- "gives you your own breathing space"**

**__Technology use in school__**

**- "we're allowed to use our ipods, cellphones and laptops during class"**

**- "teachers let us go to computers for research"**

**- "the teachers encourage us to use the school intranet to gather and share resources"**

**- "using projectors makes it easy to follow what we are meant to be doing"**

__ **Using Technology to encourage learning outside of class** __

**- "I am able to go home and continue the work that I was doing in class, and share it with my teacher" (using google docs**

**- Teachers have facebook group pages and "since I'm always on Facebook...I can make sure I'm up-to-date with school work, ask questions and also talk to other students in my class to get feedback."**

**- Facebook pages "has helped with revision for exams and getting help from the teacher if we need it, and it also helps to remind us of homework."**

__ **Student Recommendations** __

**- "there's never enough [computers] for the whole class, especially if another class is using them aswell"**

**- "more computers! Or at least more power sockets so students can bring in their own laptops"**

**- "have extension cords around so we don't have to move everything over to the walls, we could simply grab the extension cord"** <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #333333; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> = **//<span style="background-color: transparent; font-family: Arial; font-size: 18.6667px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">(Comments obtained from students anonymously through www.surveymonkey.com on 6 September, 2011. Students chose to tak //**//e part//). =