Digital Curation and Participating in an EDCamp
This class was very insightful, I was able to take in other students ideas to incorporate outdoor education into their subject areas. As a student with a PHE teachable, I found it very interesting that majority of the inquiries were related to the importance of students participation in PHE.
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In relation to my groups discussion, on incorporating outdoor education into all subjects, it was interesting to discuss how this looks different for each subject. Specifically in regards to PHE, outdoor education can be seamlessly incorporated. We discussed in our group how high schools have even made specific elective classes for the upper level grades that is specifically related to the outdoors. My link2practice school, Parklands, offers a course that brings them on an outdoor trip, getting them to canoe, portage, and camp. They are taught the essential skills and safety protocols before, given ample opportunity to prepare. We also discussed how science classes can be brought outdoors, learning about natural while being able to actually observe and experience it rather than being in a classroom. At parklands, they did a unit on species that can be found within different bodies of water. Once they went over a baseline of information in class, they went and explored, being able to walk down to the ocean and interact with what they had been learning about. Other subjects we discussed, such as math, we had a more difficult time linking to outdoor education. We discussed the ability for students to simply be able to go outside and do work in a different setting, but weren’t able to come up with an idea as to how they could actually interact with the environment in relation to the subject.