I told one of my students today that their book was at the front of the room.

“Where’s the front of the room?” was the immediate reply.

I had to say “Go and look near the board.”  Of course, I see the whiteboard as the front of my room.  But if that’s the front, then my computers and my desk are at the back, and the desks are all arragned in groups so you face one of the two sides of the room.  No one’s desk is actually positioned so they are facing “the front”.  Yesterday I spent most times I spoke to the children sitting at the bench on one of the “sides”.  The learning’s taking place all over the room, so I suppose there is less of a “front” to our learning space.  All in all, that’s got to be good.