Promoting Professional Development and Best Practice in EE
Get Ready for Madison in Three Weeks!
- View the schedule on the conference mobile app. Download from the CrowdCompass Directory (search for “NAAEE”) and add the app to your mobile phone or tablet.
- Bring your donations for the Stapp Scholarship Auction to the auction office at Counter 2. Or ship in advance by October 10 to: Aldo Leopold Nature Center, ATTN: Betsy Parker, 330 Femrite Drive, Monona, WI 53716.
- Continuing Education Units (CEUs) available through UWSP for conference and Research Symposium attendance. Submit applications and $30 fee at the registration desk at the conference.
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Questions? Check conference FAQs or contact conference@naaee.org.
Join Technology and EE Online Meeting
October 5, 4:00 PM PDT--Join this online meeting to discuss ways the group can help and support one another as people interested in EE and technology.
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NAAEE Evaluation Clinic
Do you have questions about evaluation or assessment? Bring them to NAAEE's third annual Evaluation Clinic, where you can ask questions of the experts and contribute your own relevant experience. Learn from evaluation experts as well as peers through informal, roundtable conversations. Continue the conversation on the blog afterwards, or pre-seed it with a post to the Research & Evaluation group!
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Urban Environmental Education Trends
What are your urban EE program goals? Watch this short video presenting trends in urban EE and how you can apply them to your programs. This video is part of the EECapacity EEResearch Seminar Series.
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EE in the Every Student Succeeds Act - New Opportunities in K-12 Education
NAAEE's Director of Advocacy and Affiliate Relations, Sarah Bodor, will speak about the Every Student Succeeds Act and opportunities it provides for the field of EE in the next edition of our monthly webinar series on Wednesday, September 28 at 3:00 ET.
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Improving the Praxis of Environmental and Sustainability Education in Pre-service Teacher Education
The National Roundtable in Environmental and Sustainability Education in Pre-service Teacher Education was a success and resulted in a National Action plan and the Otonabee Declaration.
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Young People’s Conversations About Environmental and Sustainability Issues in Social Media
Understanding young people’s meaning-making in social media and the experiences they acquire could help teachers to stage pluralistic and participatory approaches to classroom discussions about the environment and sustainability.
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Toward a Simple Rule for Evaluating Apps
This article explores the question of how we might evaluate apps in terms of their potential to promote environmental engagement in children. It recommends a specific rule for doing so: Apps that point beyond themselves, out into the world, can be meaningful tools for promoting environmental education; those apps that only refer back to themselves and other digital content do not serve this purpose well. Finally, the article applies this rule to some of the current apps out there, rejecting immersive ones in favor of ones that include elements such as the smart phone's digital camera or ability to provide GPS coordinates.
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