Comments on: 4 tips and tricks to reduce noise in classrooms https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/ Measure, document and analyse noise Fri, 14 Sep 2018 08:13:02 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.2.2 By: Sofie Iversen https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-5642 Tue, 29 May 2018 13:18:53 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-5642 Hi Alexandria,
I am glad to hear that you found the part about creating awareness interesting. If you would like to learn more about visualization as a tool for noise reduction in schools, you can take a look at this research paper in which they reduced noise levels in a classroom by 1.4 dB(A) using visual feedback.
Best regards,
Sofie Iversen
SoundEar A/S

]]> By: Alexandria Martinez https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-5438 Mon, 21 May 2018 23:05:07 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-5438 I was talking to a friend the other day about her interest in environmental noise management. This made me interested in learning more about this type of management in places like classrooms. It was fascinating to read that creating awareness makes the problem less large.

]]> By: Sofie Iversen https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-3837 Tue, 23 Jan 2018 08:30:23 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-3837 Hi
Thank you for sharing your story. Yes, felt pads on chair legs is definitely a good idea – I had not heard of using tennis balls before, but that would sure work too. I find it very interesting and can imagine how noise surrounding autistic pupils may cause interruptions and make for a difficult teaching situation.
Best regards,
Sofie Iversen

]]> By: Puff1n5 https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-3787 Tue, 16 Jan 2018 23:27:39 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-3787 Hi
I work for an outreach team. We go into a variety of schools to upskill staff to use strategies that help all children and particularly those on the autism spectrum.
Adding felt sticky pads to the ends of chair legs helps reduce the noise in rooms without carpets. One primary school has popped a tennis balls onto the end of chair legs. This has also created awareness of autism.
I suspect there are increased levels of concentration and lower levels of behaviours causing concern in classrooms that have reduced noise.
The difficulty for our autistic pupils is that they tend to find it hard to filter out noise so are constantly aware of the projector fan, shafts of light through slatted blinds in front of the windows, busy displays on walls, mower cutting grass outside etc

]]> By: Martin https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-1102 Tue, 06 Jun 2017 09:38:19 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-1102 Hi Tyler,

Glad that you like our blog. If you have questions regarding our products and how they work in different environments besides what is mentioned here just let us know.

Best regards,
Martin Lærke
SoundEar A/S

]]> By: Tyler Meredith https://soundear.com/2017/05/17/4-tips-tricks-reduce-noise-classrooms/#comment-1005 Thu, 01 Jun 2017 00:31:35 +0000 http://soundear.com/?p=2647#comment-1005 I like that you talk about all the different options there are for sound acoustics in a building. It makes sense that a lot of schools, being older buildings, won’t have proper acoustics which could cause classrooms to be much noisier than necessary. Updating any building’s acoustics could make it a much more comfortable environment so it’s something to remember whether it;’s a commercial space or a school because echoes can be quite annoying inside.

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