ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ the May release expanded on the pedagogy of storytelling 📯🪘🪗 and introduced place-based posts 🥁🪘📍, a functionality which helps to ignite interest among students for the school environment, observe problems and suggest solutions. Place-based posts establish ecoregions as territories which help us to communicate beyond nation states. 🌍🏕🐜 This new functionality is […]
One of the most interesting albeit small grants we have applied for since the beginning of this project had its deadline on February 15th. We have sadly received notification on May 18th that our application for EUR 50k was rejected. We believe that failures need to be communicated and think that the grant application summarizes […]
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ the March release is all about the pedagogy of storytelling. 📯🪘 🪗Learn why stories turn our minds on and how we have integrated stories with nature experience: https://youtu.be/2qm7a-ILyh4?si=YI5MKJlHF6naegUy 00:00 Quiz02:05 Overview – what’s new?02:25 Storytelling08:05 Harry Potter in Sparkassen Park15:10 POI question database19:40 search field for questions33:00 chat in activities35:50 call recap37:50 […]
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ the February release makes the assessment of biodiversity richness 🐛🦚🦉🦗🍄 a great tree watching experience. Learn why trees are also called motherships of (land) biodiversity and why sick or damaged trees 🌳🌲🌴are worth being protected: https://youtu.be/XqmbXZENj2E 00:40 Quiz 03:00 Overview – what’s new? 05:50 Biodiversity richness 23:35 Learning Paths 30:36 Group […]
ahoi crew 🙂 ⛵ our last release really paved the way to make the ARK available all around the world by being able to smoothly integrate new lingos. 🗣️📢🔈️ Apart from this, we show you a few incremental innovations which – as always – make bioregional and place-based education easy – for everyone and everywhere. […]
New Functionalities Empowering Your Work Making bioregional education easy, for everyone and everywhere. 00:00 check in 06:02 What does ARK stand for? 06:38 Quiz – Do you know this bird? 08:05 Overview of new functionalities 08:40 map view 15:20 MS login 18:30 verification reminder 20:00 recap 21:40 MediaWiki 24:08 Q&A 25:00 Trash Heroes (Rahel) 27:35 […]
Mapping points of interest & new activity dashboard What’s inside:Part 1 – Arrival ⛵️⛵️00.00 – 06.00 ArrivalPart 2 – Background for this release 🧑🏫🧑🏫06:00 – 06.20: New functionalities – overview06.20 – 7:25: Project overview07:25 – 9:18: Teaching a new world map with the help of Bioregional Education09:18 – 11:00 Bringing Bioregional Education into your neighborhood with place-based […]
Commons and specimens The Green Steps Nature Guide Training consist of 4 online mentoring sessions and 14 assignments to be completed individually. While the assignments focus more on the pedagogical aspects of the training, e.g., explaining how to design educational outdoor activities for kids using the basic theory of the Montessori Method, the online mentoring […]
Ecoregions and species Green Steps is currently offering a hybrid Nature Guide Training to all parents and adults involved with childcare that are interested in understanding and experimenting with the benefits of nature education for personal or family purposes. This training is described as hybrid, with online and offline assignments that can be done from […]
Abstract: This article looks into the psychology of why we do not react to climate change with the urgency which is needed, and explains the neurology behind human fight and flight behavior. It conceives a learning platform which combines positive communication with an infrastructure of human motivation. Originally published by Knut Wimberger in February 2020 […]