with Linda Keane and Mark Keane, School of the Art Institute of Chicago and UW-Milwaukee
Date: March 18, 2010
8:00 pm to 8:50 pm EDT
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Description:
Eco web learning introduces design knowledge that informs choices about how we interface with objects, systems, and environments and design thinking that contributes to our relationship with the built and natural world. Eco Web learning introduces what design is, what it does, and why it is important across nine connected scales- nano, pattern, object, space, architecture, and neighborhood, regional and global. Three part journeys introduce design vocabulary, activities and over two thousand global museums, institutions, and contemporary practices appealing to multigenerational life long learning.
Richard Louv’s, Last Child Left in the Woods, Nature Deficit Disorder charges that our relationship with nature has changed radically, yet K12 teachers are not yet required, nor equipped, to teach environmental design. Eco Web learning closes the digital divide and the nature gap by introducing teachers, students and their families, to the creative use of technology in making green choices and building greener futures.
About the Presenter:
Linda Keane, AIA, NCARB, is Professor of Architecture and Environmental Design at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. A leader in design education, she champions 21st century eco literacy and lectures about changing cultural practices. As Chair of the Department, she led development of a third graduate program in architecture in Chicago. Co-creator and director of www.NEXT.cc, a K12 art + design + environment eco web non profit, she conducts teacher workshops introducing what design is, what design does and why it is important to society. Co-founder of STUDIO 1032, she works on green initiatives along the Milwaukee- Chicago corridor including the City of Chicago Green Roof Website and mixed-use, mixed income conservation communities. STUDIO 1032 also produces films about architecture, which are shown internationally. Her work has been recognized by the AIA, ACSA, NEA, NIAE, USGBC and the Graham Foundation.
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Hi,
About 12 minutes into your interesting session, you mention that in education, people are primarily educated to be consumers. Few are educated to be creators and producers. In this regard, I came to think about the following blog posting about values in education http://educationinnovation.typepad.com/my_weblog/2010/03/putting-the-learner-on-ice-learning-values-for-education-innovation.html. The following presentation by Sir Ken Robinson also came into my mind http://www.ted.com/talks/lang/eng/ken_robinson_says_schools_kill_creativity.html
Listening to what you mentioned, I also came to think of slide number 44 of this presentation – and more precisely the question around place of learning, i.e. location where education takes place. http://www.slideshare.net/moravec/toward-society-30-a-new-paradigm-for-21st-century-education-presentation
Education 1.0: In a building.
Education 2.0: In a building or online.
Education 3.0: Everywhere.
My thoughts are that with social media / web 2.0 tools / collaborative technologies, powerful mobile electronic devices, and Internet being available anywhere, we have the possibility to make education happen anytime and anywhere.
What do you see as the most important challenges to overcome in order to make this change happen, i.e. to make education happen anytime and anywhere – and not only at a particular time in a particular place?