Tag Archives: curriculum
Making tweaks and changes: Tailoring the Out of Eden Learn experience for educators of younger students
In the last post I outlined some of the ways in which we hope to build teacher community around the walk. That post did not exactly generate a flood of debate and discussion – however, it is fair to say that there is a palpable excitement amongst our latest cohort of educators. We are particularly […]
Paul’s Youngest Travel Companions: Out of Eden Learn in the Preschool Classroom
Deb McLean is an early childhood/special educator in a preschool classroom at the Blanchard Memorial School in Boxborough, Massachusetts. While attending the Project Zero Institute last July, I learned of Paul Salopek’s amazing Out of Eden Journey and Project Zero’s involvement in creating online learning communities for middle and high school students. As Liz Dawes […]
Ready to go…
After a minor delay we are proud to announce that our new platform has now gone live! Please enjoy exploring the site and consider enrolling your class for a learning journey. Feel free to send us any questions at learn@outofedenwalk.com. We look forward to connecting with you and your students. More announcements will be coming soon.
Our new platform is on its way
Things are going to be moving quickly over the coming days as we count down towards the launch of our beautiful new learning platform. We have been working with an amazing team of web designers and believe that users will be suitably impressed by the end result. Here are some important announcements: A NEW NAME. […]
Observing Global Connections
A main theme of our on-line learning community is about exploring global connections, which ties in well with Paul’s overarching goals for his Out of Eden Walk. As the National Geographic website puts it: “when his seven-year journey ends, Paul will have created a global mosaic of stories, faces, sounds, and landscapes highlighting the pathways […]
Looking Differently at the World: Engaging Younger Learners in the Out of Eden Walk
Tabbatha O’Donnell is a 4th grade teacher at Palm Beach Day Academy in Palm Beach, Florida. I first learned about Paul Salopek and his journey on Project Zero’s website. I was amazed. How could someone walk 21,000 miles, for 7 years? Having the opportunity to visit and learn about so many different cultures and countries […]
Better People?
Cameron Paterson is a history teacher and the Mentor of Learning & Teaching at Shore School in North Sydney, Australia. In July I attended the Project Zero Classroom in Cambridge and I had the pleasure of participating in the ‘Slowing Learning Down’ workshop led by Liz and Carrie in which they shared the Out of […]
Walking to learn and the future of learning
Last week was Project Zero’s enormously generative 5th annual Future of Learning Conference held at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. The conference was organized around the following ‘throughlines’: What do we know about globalization, the digital revolution, and mind/brain research and their influence on learning and education? How do we need to rethink the […]
Connecting our lives to a bigger human story
As a former history teacher I have an ongoing interest in how young people think about the past. I am particularly interested in understanding how they think about themselves in relation to the past – and how educators might tap into those ideas to help make history and social studies curricula more engaging and personally […]
Everybody has a story
Until recently I was the Head of Social Studies at Crofton House School in Vancouver, Canada. This fall I take up the position of Assistant Principal at Bodwell High School, also in Vancouver. In the first of two blog posts, I reflect on what I and my 11th grade students gained from participating in the […]
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