Out of Eden Walk – Education Offerings Tailored for Remote Learning
National Geographic Education:
- Out of Eden Walk Google Earth Voyager Story and accompanying Idea Set activities (all of which are suitable or easily adaptable for remote learning).
- Paul Salopek has joined 12 “Explorer Classroom” live-interaction digital hangout sessions with students and classrooms, with more interactions scheduled throughout fall of 2020.
- Out of Eden Walk “Mapping the Human Journey” video, available in the NGS Education Resource Library.
- Out of Eden Walk Silk Roads StoryMap “Exploring with GIS” video, available in the NGS Education Resource Library.
Harvard Graduate School of Education:
- Out of Eden Learn (OOEL) is a free online education program for students aged 3–19. Inspired by the way Paul’s journalism draws together local and global storytelling, OOEL brings youth from diverse backgrounds together online for thoughtful inquiry and exchange. OOEL is an initiative of Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and is funded by Global Cities of Bloomberg Philanthropies.
- OOEL blog is offering free professional development presentations and other resources for educators transitioning to remote learning circumstances.
- Project Zero is reconfiguring its programming specifically to accommodate the increased demand for remote learning, including the growing OOEL community of 30,000 students across 60 countries. Their reconfigured platform will launch by April 30, 2020.
Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting:
- Free lesson builders and curricula for students at all grade levels.
- Supports Out of Eden Walk University Outreach Program, which offers a ready-to-implement “slow journalism” University-level workshop and semester-long course created by Don Belt. The workshop has engaged educators at dozens of higher-learning institutions nationwide and can be conducted remotely. The semester-long course has been adapted into the University of Richmond’s journalism department for the past five years, and debuted a brand-new podcast template online now for remote continuation.
Out of Eden Walk HomeStories:
- Out of Eden Walk HomeStories is an initiative to foster dialogue and empathy-building across borders through storytelling. HomeStories invites community members to engage online on a custom-built GIS storytelling platform, www.homestoryproject.org, and by joining live online panel discussions featuring storytellers and thought leaders from all around the globe. Watch a five minute introductory video about HomeStories here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPBjYJhiquY&t=1s.
- HomeStories in the classroom: Students are the largest demographic of participants in HomeStories. With partners at Pulitzer Center, we have created a toolkit for educators to offer the HomeStories map as a remote-learning activity for all grade-level students. The free, publicly-available toolkit helps middle-school-age students engage with the HomeStories project: Download the activity sheet here.
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