Tag Archives: place

Out of Flint: Out of Eden Walk to Authentic Writing

March 30, 2016 · by · in In classrooms, Related Projects, Student Work · 2 Comments

Dr. Arina Bokas is a faculty member in the department of English at Charles S. Mott Community College, Flint, Michigan. She adapted Out of Eden Learn activities and other Project Zero frameworks for her first-year composition class. “Authentic writing occurs when students compose with a voice that is uniquely theirs; therefore, it does not follow […]

Mapping Place and Possibility

November 21, 2014 · by · in Curriculum and Research · 3 Comments

In her most recent blog post, Liz Dawes Duraisingh began a rich discussion of mapping as a way of representing our world, our histories, and our stories. Continuing this conversation further, I wanted to share my own fascination with mapping and the possibilities it creates for individuals and communities. This past summer, I had the […]

Representing the world

November 11, 2014 · by · in Curriculum and Research · Leave a comment

I was fortunate to attend a recent workshop called Flattening the Globe: The Beauty and Challenge of Flattening Perspectives run by Mariah Landers and Tamar Posner of Math Action at Project Zero’s recent Making, Thinking, Understanding conference in San Francisco, organized by the group CASIE. In the picture below you see me hard at work trying […]

Our Places and Our Worlds

June 30, 2014 · by · in Curriculum and Research · 3 Comments

Jessica Fei is a member of the Out of Eden Learn team and a doctoral student at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, where she is a Spencer Foundation Early Career Scholar in New Civics. With separate funding from The Germanacos Foundation, Jessica is running a pilot study called Story/Space to complement what we are […]