How Can Digital Education Contribute To A Pedagogy For Environmental Care?

Pollastri, Serena; Barratt, Robert; Dean, Claire

doi:10.1145/3459990.3465190

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“…In 2021, Edwards et al [13] presented work on ways that digital education can contribute to a pedagogy for environmental care, illustrating through a series of cross-curricular projects. The work described in that paper led to the hardware and software under current development.…”

Section: Related Work 21 Prior Work and Experiential Reflection On Th...mentioning

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Supporting fieldwork for primary education with computing - micro:bit, clip:bit and game controllers

Edwards

Vidler

Underwood

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

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This paper presents the ongoing development of the clip:bit, a clipboard-style micro:bit V2 extension for biodiversity monitoring in schools and community groups. The clip:bit is one component in a wider system to enable schools to engage in longitudinal studies of biodiversity in school grounds and local areas, monitoring the impact of landscape management and children's ecological activities, such as the introduction wildflower meadows or planting hedgerows. The clip:bit was designed in response to needs identified during fieldwork in schools. We describe how the design addresses these needs and point to the way the clip:bit fits into a wider plan for data management and data visualisation. We also discuss the application of an existing micro:bit peripheral, the Kitronik Game Controller, for biodiversity monitoring and compare their use for different cases.

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Section: Related Work 21 Prior Work and Experiential Reflection On Th...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Supporting fieldwork for primary education with computing - micro:bit, clip:bit and game controllers

Edwards

Vidler

Underwood

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 22nd Annual ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference

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Engaging with Nature through Technology: A Scoping Review of HCI Research

Webber

Kelly

Wadley

et al. 2023

Proceedings of the 2023 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

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Biodiversity Logbooks: Design for noticing nature at a hyperlocal scale

Edwards

Pollastri

2022

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This article considers the pedagogical importance of noticing nature at the hyperlocal scale, and the role that design can play in nurturing and supporting these processes. Biodiversity Logbooks are a set of educational resources that promote direct engagement with everyday environments through a variety of creative methods, including cyanotype photography, physical computing, collaborative mapping and journaling. These tools are intended to be used in combination to develop skills of noticing plants in their habitats and understanding how different environments support different life forms. This article argues that while complex environmental phenomena are often addressed at the global scale (with local impacts presented as scalable outcomes), focusing on small, often overlooked details can have beneficial pedagogical outcomes. These consist of increased attentiveness and care for the needs of other species, better retention of knowledge generated through embodied experience and stronger connection with place. In the article, the impacts of the project as described by the teachers who participated in the experience are discussed in connection to broader epistemological issues. These include plant blindness as a widespread phenomenon in urban populations, and the importance of observing messy entanglements and non-scalable dynamics when building knowledge about the environment.

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How Can Digital Education Contribute To A Pedagogy For Environmental Care?

Cited by 3 publications

References 17 publications

Supporting fieldwork for primary education with computing - micro:bit, clip:bit and game controllers

Supporting fieldwork for primary education with computing - micro:bit, clip:bit and game controllers

Engaging with Nature through Technology: A Scoping Review of HCI Research

Biodiversity Logbooks: Design for noticing nature at a hyperlocal scale

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