Deep Engagement via Story, the Arts & Gamification
This is an online event
28 Lennox St, Toronto, ON M6G 2L5, Canada
Ontario
43.6638462
-79.41119329999998
Description
There is often a missed opportunity in environmental education for students to apply the knowledge and skills they gain to solve real-world problems. Kids can be effective agents of change in their families. Not only do they jump at the opportunity, but recognizing their agency can increase educational outcomes, involve parents in their child's learning and help tackle pressing environmental problems. Using examples from Planet Protector Academy, Vanessa will share how educators can empower their students to become planet protecting superheroes by:
+Using storyline to endow their students with superhero powers and aspiration.
+Making student learning hands-on and connecting it to the home through superhero missions.
+Nurturing identity-based change through arts-based activities that engages the whole child.
+Getting buy-in from families and making behaviour change easier.
+Incentivizing participation, engagement and action through team competition and gamification.
Vanessa LeBourdais is the
Executive Producer and Creative Director at
DreamRider Productions a
national Canadian environmental education charity. Over the past 18 years,
Vanessa’s and her team’s arts-based and digital programs on zero waste,
climate, water and littering have reached over 900,000 elementary school
children in 900+ schools in five provinces. Their latest digital classroom
resource, the
Planet
Protector Academy
won the 2015 TELUS Innovation Award, is now in five
Canadian provinces, and is launching in the US this fall.
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Start:
2016-11-17T19:30:00-05:00
End:
2016-11-17T20:30:00-05:00
Category
Other
Tickets
Free Registration
0.0
CAD
300
Registration with Continuing Education Certificate
5.25
CAD
100