Notes+on+Environmental+Sustainability

In today's digital world, it is becoming increasing more difficult to educate our students in the traditional sense. We are not teaching in the 19th or 20th centuries anymore! We are teaching in the 21st century, which is a global century. With so much new technology bombarding us everyday, it is important that we stay up to date with the current technologies and learn how to effectively use this technology in our classrooms. By doing this, we can engage our students in a way that they can understand. By introducing new technologies effectively, we can motivate students to use the computer as a tool to learn beyond the rote memorization that is going on in classrooms today and we can then reach the students at their level. According to Cummins, many students do appear to be motivated by the engagement with technology ( p. 104).

What I envision for this wiki is for it to be used as a tool for my students to study all the different aspects of social ecology and environmental sustainability. I want them to be able to use this as a space for them to keep their notes, upload new sites on environmental sustainability that they find useful and as a place to exchange their ideas outside of class. As we answer the questions together that we want to know about social ecology and environmental sustainability, we are co-constructing knowledge and understanding of this topic and thus promoting higher-order thinking skills in a social constructivist pedagogy. (p. 44)