Category Student Work
Paul’s appreciation of student work: Sharing the wealth
As I write, Paul is getting ready to set off across the bleak and remote steppes of Kazakhstan. According to Paul, this part of his journey has been one of the most demanding because of the logistical preparations necessary to walk across terrain that hasn’t been traversed on foot in decades. Nevertheless, he recently found […]
Integrating Out of Eden Learn into my 5th and 6th grade Spanish classes//La integración del ‘Out of Eden Learn’ en mis clases de 5to y 6to grado.
Ver abajo la versión de este blog en español. Vanenka Mosqueira is a Spanish teacher at Atlanta International School. Her students participated in the recent Spanish pilot of Out of Eden Learn. Previously, she adapted some of Out of Eden Learn’s materials for her students. Vanenka follows the International Baccalaureate curriculum. “To educate with the […]
Adapting, deepening, extending: How educators are making Out of Eden Learn their own
On November 24, 2015 we held a Google+ Hangout called Out of Eden Learn in the Classroom. During this session five educators from our community shared how they have incorporated Out of Eden Learn into their specific classroom contexts. The participants, who all happen to be active on Twitter, were: Andy Richardson, an International Baccalaureate […]
A student’s ‘Story of Learning’ through Out of Eden Learn
Annie Sheridan is a 6th grade student at the Village school in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She had the chance to participate in Out of Eden Learn last year in Natalie Belli’s class. I remember the day when I was first introduced to Out of Eden Learn. It was the first week of school and the year […]
Looking slowly at student work together
A former high school Economics teacher and education policymaker from Singapore, Jolyn Chua recently completed her Masters in Education (Mind, Brain and Education) at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has been attending Out of Eden Learn team meetings. “The first picture is a picture of a water supplier that runs around India. In […]
Paul’s Responses to Student Work
This post is designed to highlight – and share – some of Paul’s responses to student work produced within Out of Eden Learn. Given Paul’s limited availability, we periodically put together a package of student work for him to comment on; individual students then receive a reply from Paul, which other students in their walking […]
Examining Everyday Objects
As Shari Tishman writes in SLOW LOOKING, “sometimes learning involves slowing down. Sometimes all we need is to be given time, along with the simplest set of instructions, in order to look closely at the world around us and see new things.” Our “Examining Everyday Objects” activity or what we call “footstep” tries to give […]
“Leaving our Edens”
Project Zero and Harvard University winds down over the holiday period and I and the rest of the team have been taking a bit of a break from all things Out of Eden Learn. However, we are really looking forward to entering a new phase of our journey as we welcome a new cohort of […]
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