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In this episode, Carol Murdoch discusses place-responsive education and the use of technology in outdoor learning. She also shares insights from a study by Gemma Goldenberg on the benefits of outdoor learning. Carol answers questions about providing outdoor learning with limited resources, managing outdoor learning with minimal staff, and the curriculum coverage of outdoor learning.
Takeaways
- Place-responsive education involves using the local environment and students’ lived experiences to teach and learn.
- Outdoor learning can happen anywhere and can be integrated across the curriculum.
- Using technology in outdoor learning can enhance students’ sense of place and engagement.
- Outdoor learning can have positive effects on children’s behaviour, attention, and stress levels.
- Outdoor learning can be adapted to different contexts and can benefit children with diverse needs.
- Outdoor learning can be implemented with minimal resources and staff support.
- Outdoor learning can cover a wide range of curriculum areas and learning outcomes.
Timestamps
00:00 Introduction and Apology
00:52 Exploring Place-Responsive Education and Digital Literacy Outdoors
02:50 Understanding Place-Responsive Education
03:38 Benefits of Place-Responsive Education
04:38 Defining Place Ambivalence, Place Sensitive, and Place Essential
08:34 Assessing the Place Responsiveness of a Lesson
10:15 Planning Outdoor Lessons with Six Questions
11:17 Considering the Best Delivery Location for Content
11:50 Using Technology in Outdoor Learning
15:04 Exploring the Research of Gemma Goldenberg
16:49 The benefits between indoor and outdoor learning
17:57 Children’s behaviour outdoors
19:14 Attention – Indoors v Outdoors
20:09 Not a silver bullet
20:33 Change in behaviour
23:20 OL isn’t for every kid
24:12 What kids did OL benefit the most?
25:28 Your Questions – why do you have a ko-fi account?
27:44 Your Questions – how can we provide quality outdoor learning with little resources?
28:57 Your Questions – how can we provide outdoor learning with minimal staff
30:18 Your Questions – where can we resource things like Wellies and Anoraks to support kids who don’t bring them?
31:38 Your Questions – can I take a lesson sit outside and call it outdoor learning does that change if I make the same lesson more active
32:30 Your Questions – Which E’s and O’s does it cover?
Thank you for listening. Here are the show links:
From Others
- Support for Professional Development in Outdoor Learning (Education Scotland)
- Thrive Scotland, Funders of Outdoor Learning and Play (Thrive Scotland)
- Website | Instagram (Gemma Goldenberg)
- Barrable, A., 2019. The case for nature connectedness as a distinct goal of early childhood education (International Journal of Early Childhood Environmental Education, 6(2), pp.59-70
- Teaching in nature Mannion, G., Fenwick, A., Nugent, C. and I’Anson, J., 2011.
- Why we may be getting outdoor education (very) wrong (TES)
- Smith, G.A., 2002. Place-based education: Learning to be where we are Phi delta kappan, 83(8), pp.584-594
