The Digital Learning Materials site contains a variety of teaching and learning curriculum components, created, primarily, by the Internet Learning Community Projects in IU's Phase II.
The Scholar’s Box work began in Phase II and continues today, working to implement online tools that will allow teachers, students, and researchers to gather, organize and share resources in the environment of desk-top and Internet computing.
IU/CDL collaboration, formally initiated in 2003, is a key partnership, and a source of IU support for the Scholar's Box development effort.
The City|Watershed Project, funded in Fall 2003, is gearing up—see July's lead story. It aims to bring computer technologies to the established watershed education and restoration programs of its Bay Area partners.
Finally, in the right-most column, there are new links to campus and affiliate sites. And for those who wish to make a permanent link to an IU Home page or News page (which change the first Tuesday of every month) a persistent link has now been added to each of these pages.
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Environmental Education:
UC Berkeley Works with East Bay High Schools |
 During the current Spring Semester, 17 Berkeley graduate and undergraduate students are exploring ways to bring a social component to environmental education. Led by UC Berkeley instructor Mark Spencer, the ESPM 190 students are working with three East Bay high schools: Richmond High, Oakland High, and the Oasis Charter School in Oakland.
Supported by IU's City|Watershed Project and Berkeley's College of Natural Resources, the UC Berkeley students are working to develop and present an environmental science curriculum in which research, teaching, and outreach are all brought into a framework that examines and analyzes local ecosystems high school students can initially be introduced to in class and then observe first-hand in the field.
In order to make the concept work, Spencer's students spend as much time observing and teaching in the field — along East Bay creeks or tidal marshes, in local parklands or high school classrooms — as they do studying and developing curriculum components at Berkeley. The approach is designed to introduce and foster — for both the University and high school students — the practice of thinking across disciplines. In turn, a multi-disciplinary approach leads to a primary focus on inquiry and the learning process rather than on the mastery of content.
One of the goals for the undergraduates is to use this approach to develop a blueprint for creating "teaching portfolios". The key to creating these portfolios is to collect, identify and analyze the kinds of data and experience essential for an environmental educator. With access to and an understanding of this information, environmental educators might better serve the public with knowledge that will enable an informed citizenry to understand, enjoy and protect local environments.
. . . Continue on to the IU News May 2005 page to complete this story.
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