With Trevor Dunlap and Matthew Broda of the Nuhop Center for Experiential Learning in Ohio
In our first full episode, hear the remarkable story of how, in the span of 8 days, an experiential outdoor learning center made a 180-degree shift from in-person to digital teaching without abandoning their organizational goals. We also discuss the role of digital live experiences in environmental ed. now and in the future, the key to maintaining focus amid turmoil, and how llamas and alpacas can ease “Zoom fatigue”!
Guests:
Matthew Broda is a pre-service teacher, experiential facilitator, and environmental educator based in Wooster, Ohio. As an associate professor of education with The College of Wooster, he focuses on the integration of innovative pedagogies (i.e., experiential methodologies, immersive technologies, ecological sensibilities, etc.) into pre-service teacher curricula. As a former middle school science teacher, Matthew holds an MA in Educational Administration from Ashland University and a Ph.D. in Curriculum and Instruction from Kent State University. When not teaching his students, Matthew and his wife Kristin can usually be found somewhere outside smiling.
Trevor Dunlap is the Executive Director of The Nuhop Center for Experiential Learning, an Ohio-based non-profit that focuses on environmental and outdoor experiential education and serving children with special needs through residential camping experiences. Trevor is passionate about hands-on learning and loves fostering creative environments where people can succeed through engagement in the natural world. Trevor holds a BA in Elementary Education and Special Education from Wittenberg University. When not managing Nuhop, Trevor and his wife Sarah enjoy taking their three children on adventures, and can often be found trail-running, hiking, and working the soil in their family garden.
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Episode 61: A Two-Worlds Approach to nurturing empathy in young children
Episode 60: Nature’s best hope (for kids)
Episode 59: The lives of bees and pollinating wasps
Episode 58: Learning through a forest lens
Episode 57: Regenerating habitat for native pollinators
Episode 56: Having richer and more meaningful conversations with children
Episode 55: Pre-K environmental ed.
Episode 54: Engaging children in climate/waste solutions
Episode 53: The power of nature stories
Episode 52: Two-eyed seeing
Episode 51: Balancing screen time and green time
Episode 50: Navigating ecological threats with storytelling
Episode 49: Comics, cartoons, and humour for climate change ed.
Episode 48: What we can learn from trees
Episode 47: Climate literacy and resilience
Episode 46: Attention restoration theory
Episode 45: World Rivers Day
Episode 44: Phenology-based teaching
Episode 43: Regenerative education, incl. learning session
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