TTT#390 Out of Eden Walk Learning Community
Channel: Paul Allison
Date: 16/04/2014

Out of Eden Learn
Website: http://learn.outofedenwalk.com     
Blog: http://walktolearn.outofedenwalk.com  
Twitter: https://twitter.com/OutofEdenLearn
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/OutofEdenLearn

Join @carrie_james @misssball on edtechtalk.com/tttRE: teaching @outofedenwalk/@PaulSalopek's 7-yr walk 4.9.14 - 9PM ET/6PM PT #NWP 

+Chris Sloan has begun to introduce the Out of Eden Walk to his students, and mine are soon to follow. We want to learn more, and we invite you to do the same on Wednesday at 9PM ET/6PM PT onhttp://edtedtalk.com/ttt 

We've invited  +Carrie James and +Brenda Ball to help launch our work with students into learning with the amazing resources that +Paul Salopek and many others have been gathering around the +Out of Eden Walk 

Carrie James is an +Out of Eden Learn team member at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School. She is an expert on young people's digital lives and has a forthcoming book called Disconnected: Youth, New Media, and the Ethics Gap (The MIT Press).

Until recently Brenda Ball was the Head of Social Studies at Crofton House School in Vancouver, Canada. This fall she took up the the position of Assistant Principal at Bodwell High School, also in Vancouver. 

Brenda writes in a "Walk to Learn" blog post http://walktolearn.outofedenwalk.com/author/misssball/:

My students and I got involved in the Out of Eden project because even though it meant "straying" away from our specified curriculum, the project focuses on things that will be important for students -- citizens -- to know ten years from now, when they have long since left school. Students are more likely to remember stories, human and personable, than they are the "Google-able" content of their curriculum. And following Paul's walk involves listening to stories that are both old and new.

Along with Paul Salopek and his Web partners on http://www.outofedenwalk.com, our students are "beginning to explore the latest multimedia technology, new digital mapping tools, exciting social media experiments about global affairs and the rewards of 'slow journalism.' "

Please consider joining us on this adventure as well on Wednesday 4.9.14 at 9PM ET/6PM PT at http://edtechtalk.com/ttt.

Here are a few sites where you can learn more:

The National Geographic site for Paul Salopek's Out of Eden Walk:http://outofedenwalk.nationalgeographic.com/about/ 

Out of Eden Learn site -- the community where youth take part in our "learning journey":  http://learn.outofedenwalk.com/ 

Walk to Learn -- the Out of Eden Learn blog:http://walktolearn.outofedenwalk.com/?

New Directions Secondary School's 6th Graders Questions upon being introduced to the Out of Eden Walk: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ZlGlYaAFx8UIOKPPjOjApSV3-qS3iNUEGd2EdETwivU/pub

Out of Eden Mission on Youth Voices - http://youthvoices.net/outofeden1