Just google it. Want to find out something new? What to research something old? Just google it. Everybody “googles” because it is a very quick and very handy means to access information. “Googling” is such a basic and widespread activity these days, that it has entered our vernacular. I am ambivalent when it comes to googling; I appreciate its […]
Category: Imaginative Ecological Education (IEE): Activities & Insights
Learn how to engage imagination in learning to support the development of ecological understanding and sense of place.
What is Imaginative Ecological Education? #IEE
Human beings are not refrigerators. Industrial metaphors continue to shape the way we talk and think about education. This is a problem. Why? Because there’s no way approaches to teaching/planning that are inspired by factories and assembly lines can support ecological understanding–that sense of one’s implicatedness in all life and the care and concern to do something […]
Learn To Live Attentively In A Media Mad World (Part One)
My kids think I’m exaggerating. I’m not. I grew up without a cell phone. So, when I was away from home, I either didn’t talk to anyone who wasn’t with me (GASP!) or I brought a quarter and used a pay phone. (What’s that?) My first computer was practically the size of a smart car. No, it didn’t fit […]