Collaborative tools to connect School and Landscape
School-Local Landscape Connection: Description of how EDULANDS seeks to connect the school with the nearby landscape, considering various layers of the landscape, including the human, heritage, historical, and economic dimensions.
EDULANDS adopts a holistic methodology to cultivate ecosocial competence, fostering a strong bond between students and their local environment. The process includes mapping activities to enhance research skills, followed by collaborative interventions designed by students. External experts, known as ecosocial agents, contribute to real-world insights. Through dynamic activities like collaborative games and artistic tools, EDULANDS aims to create engaging learning experiences that promote citizenship, problem-solving, and heightened ecosocial awareness among students.
Through these diverse activities, EDULANDS aims to produce shareable materials such as films, photographs, radio content, podcasts, and more. Additionally, the methodology stimulates learning through sensory perception and encourages students to explore their individual, inner landscapes.
This project comprises the elaboration of a cooperative and adaptive methodology to elaborate:
These outputs allow users to share and to learn online on eco transition, to create different activities around sustainable landscape (proximity landscapes) and community building projects around schools. This process will be co-built together with school and high-school teachers in a transdisciplinary concern. The methodology and materials will be adaptable to different school levels and country teaching programs.
Creation of maps of the nearby landscape, exploring from the inner landscape to the external environment.
Students' work to design and implement interventions in the landscape, supported by external experts.
Evaluation tools embeddable in curricula to assess eco-social competence.
LEARNING EXPERIENCES VIEWER
Platform to showcase and share educational experiences related to the nearby landscape.
EDULANDS OER Search:
Open Educational Resources (OER) search engine providing access to projects with an eco-social perspective and the EDULANDS learning community.
ECOSOCIAL AGENTS LIBRARY:
This tool encourages individuals and entities to become eco-social agents, actively participating in the EDULANDS learning community. Agents include educators, social entities, collective organizations, and professionals contributing with an eco-social perspective.
Definition and Characteristics: Explanation of the EDULANDS ecosocial taxonomy, a set of categories defining the ecosocial perspective and methodology of learning experiences.
Application in Results: Utilization of the taxonomy to classify and characterize project results, especially in the categorization of open educational resources.
To this end, EDULANDS is creating a series of tools that will help the school to open up to the surrounding landscape. Tools that help teachers and students to discover the community, that is, those people, collectives, institutions that study, work, project, recover, collaborate with each other, stimulate debates in the local environment with an ecosocial perspective. These "ecosocial agents" are those who can stimulate knowledge with affection, since they work on transcendental themes in an environment well known to the students. It is place based education and situated and dialogic learning.
