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=**"All in together - 197 students in one room"**= An article appeared in Monday's SMH on Page 1 (06/06/2011) tittled 'All in together - 197 students in one room' It started: THE blackboard has already gone from most NSW classrooms. Now, the head of a big school system is determined that the classroom itself joins it in the scrapbook of history. "It's dead," said Greg Whitby, the executive director of 78 schools in the Catholic diocese of Parramatta, which 42,000 students attend. He is not alone. The Sydney diocese has embarked on the same path for primary schools. Forty of the 112 primary schools already use large-form learning areas instead of classrooms and the diocese is keen to expand their use. Mr Whitby hopes to close the last classroom within five years, part of a transition to "agile learning areas", open-plan rooms where much larger groups - sometimes even the whole school - learn under one roof. Noisier but not distracting. . . Zac Gerheard (from left), Christian Stathopoulos and Bessie Phillips work on their laptops in the mega classroom at St Monica's Primary. //Photo: Brendan Esposito//

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The traditional way of teaching is changing. What do you think?