Place Based Education
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Difference Making
Education and the Economy: How Might Education Shape the Future of How We Live and Work
[…] In traditional economics courses we are usually taught a very linear approach towards how we produce and consume goods and services. Instead of taking materials from the earth, producing them into a good, using them as a consumer, and then throwing that good away, the circular economy asks how we create a more continuous […]
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Career & Technical Ed
Getting Clearer: Career and Technical Education
[…] love for her CTE classes to give her purpose. By connecting her interests to her life lessons, she learned the importance of being a steward of the earth and using that to make life better for everyone. As a result of her mastery of 21st Century skills of resilience, accountability, problem solving, and more […]
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EdTech
Metaverse and Education: What Do We Need to Know?
[…] we as educators do? Interested in having a conversation about the metaverse with the Getting Smart team? Register for our upcoming Getting Smart Town Hall What on Earth is a Metaverse?: The Next Frontier of Engaging and Learning. Will the metaverse really evolve? There have been mixed reviews on whether the metaverse will become […]
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Green Schools
How Generation Z is Using Sustainability and Entrepreneurship Education to Save the Planet
[…] the decidedly Gen Z principle that “technological innovation and environmental consciousness should go hand in hand.” FYDER includes on its website a quote from Ernest Hemingway: “The Earth is a fine place and worth fighting for.” Like all of INCubatoredu’s students, the Alamo Heights team looked for an innovative solution to a problem in […]
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Future of Learning
Humanity: The Antidote
[…] to the question, “What might happen if we slow down?” National Geographic fellow and explorer, Paul Salopek exemplifies this. Recently he wrote, “I am walking across the Earth. Over the course of perhaps a dozen years and roughly 24,000 miles, I’m trekking continuously along the pathways of the ancestors from Africa to South America. […]
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Learner-Centered
What Could You Do with 5 Additional Hours of Time with Students Each Day?
[…] at scientific findings/opinions with a critical eye rather than preparing them to be biology majors? For those non-science majors, that might be understanding how and why the earth is warming, how herbicides and insecticides work and their positive and negative consequences, and how knowing some science can make food taste amazing, etc. Rather than […]
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Future of Learning
Two High School Students Create STEM Program
[…] STEM among young students through curated programs. Early in the founding year of the organization, they taught groups of students on topics such as physics, chemistry, and earth science. They gradually expanded the curriculum to technology courses, and in 2020, during the peak of COVID19, Start STEM Early was able to accelerate its outreach […]
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Place Based Education
Denver Public Schools: A Hopeful Generation of Climate Champions
[…] Installing bike racks and a maintenance station, and doing biking outreach and education DCIS at Fairmont: Performing service learning projects like gardening and composting and hosting an Earth Day celebration Vista Academy: Having students attend the Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Related Sciences conference Centennial Elementary: Installing bike racks and a doing biking outreach […]
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Leadership
What Educators Need: Building Cultures of Trust in an Era of Top-Down Educational Legislation
[…] this moment in educational history as a “critical pass” (p. 9) caused as much by the destruction of the planet and our unsustainable approaches to life on earth as by the mistakes of educational policy. He writes, “Over the centuries of human life, we have shaped and reshaped our existences. In doing so, we […]
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Difference Making
Community is Learning: How The Act of Learning is Rooted in Neighbors, Family and Place
[…] to get through academically, socially, and psychologically. That bus ride was where I code-switched, knowing that I had to turn into someone else to get through the day. It was not just a culture shock but a soul shock. So many learners experience this throughout their education. They are not able to take their […]
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