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Outdoor learningMart Laanpere, Tallinn University
Roadmap
• Learning environment is changing
• Outdoor learning in Estonia
• Outdoor learning and ICT
Defining the learning environment
• Narrow definition: classroom
• Wider definition: physical and social environment that surrounds a learner, including learning resources, technical equipment, curriculum, fellow learners, teacher (with her implicit learning theories and teaching methods) etc.
Learning environment is changing
• 2400 years ago: Socrates banned the books
• 500 years ago: learning environment = working environment
• 150 years ago: village schools
• 100 years ago: learning environment was rationalized/industrialized
• 30 years ago: subject-specific classrooms
• 10 years ago: virtual learning environment
Two trends• Back to “authentic learning
environment”: real-life tasks, apprenticeship learning, back to the nature
• Forward to technology-enhanced learning environment: learning through collaborative knowledge building, intelligent tutoring systems, simulations, augmented reality
Outdoor learning
• You need whole body to learn
• Different traditions: boy scouts, camp school, health sciences, folklore
• Five pillars of outdoor learning (Mikk Sarv): hand, sense, deed, story, point
Outdoor learning environment
Virtual learning environment
• VIKO: viko.opetaja.ee
• KRIHVEL: krihvel.opetaja.ee
• LMS: IVA, Moodle, Blackboard
• Personal Learning Environments:
• Blog: blogger.com, wordpress.com
• Photo album: flickr.com, nagi.ee
• Videos: youtube.com, video.www.ee
• Aggregator: netvibes.com, del.icio.us
Combination: M-learning• We can use technology for leading kids
closer to the nature
• Outdoor learning + technology-enhanced learning = m-learning (m: mobile)
• Mobile technologies: GPS, PDA, Internet, smartphone, mp3-player, digital camera …
• M-learning environment: outdoors and indoors, combining nature and virtual learning environment
Experiential learning
Examples
• Environmental detectives: http://education.mit.edu/ar
• Geocaching: geocaching.com, Travel Bug
• eMapps: http://emapps.com
• Garbage Watch: http://web.gc.cuny.edu/dept/case/lsc
Examples
• Knowledge building: mobiled.uiah.fi
• Sound of Water: unesco.uiah.fi/water
• Taggin Tallinn: tt.tlu.ee
• YellowArrow.net: places and meanings