The Fresh Classroom by @PaulKelba

As articulated in the prior post  Where food comes from , twitter is a fit for the experiential educator craving real world connections between their students and experts. Sequential links: Twitter in the classroom (a great presentation for students, parents, administrators) How twitter improves teaching (from Innovative Design in Education) The most powerful tool for PD---The Hashtag Currently planning a PD session titled 'Twitter for the Experiential Classroom', I have learned from many of the incredible twitter pro's such as  Ellen Cordiero ,  Steven W. Anderson  &  Angela Maiers    that have created 'ah ha' moments with a brief in service of a simple hashtag. With some good timing and a simple pitch, a staff team can only become stronger, more confident and competent. ...as Steve Anderson put it: "Twitter is less about consumption and more about engagement" What more appropriate metaphor for a classroom. Paul Kelba

This week the fresh classroom begins its twitter connection with the farmers who share aspects their daily life on twitter. From crop status to current challenges: Tweeting farmers bridge gap between farm, table  is an authentic look at tracing our food, honoring farmers, and the teachable moments they supply. Real world lesson plans on the realities of our food: The Business of Food Middle, Secondary The Real Survivor Elementary, Middle Feeding Minds, Fighting Hunger-primary grades Elementary Resources 4 Rethinking (r4r.ca) powered these activities and is a great group of minds at work to deepen feelings for our world.

21 ST Century Learners Need More Soul-Online Lecture Series Intro- Examines our first decade of the ‘21 st Century Learner’ including current data on student’s actions that have reduced/increased greatly.     What good teaching practices leave lasting positive legacies? Today’s student can make connections and solve problems like never before; however, what happens to the significance of the local in the global age? Currently, what and who is able to create a curriculum that comes alive? November/December: 1) Relational Learning & extending a genuine classroom for today’s learner. 2) The wild west of educational ‘aps’ and limbic resonance 3)   “Within a generation the frequency, duration, and quality of young people’s outdoor experiences (both through school and out of school) have, in most countries in the world, reduced dramatically”. 4) The whole child, including authentic learning contexts and how to connect any good teaching to the curriculum.

4 Ways to Turn your kids into Social Demographers This list aims (for any subject you teach) to deepen one’s relationship with their community and their local natural world. Distinct from formal demography, which focuses more generally on population composition and distribution, social demography investigates the social-status composition and distribution of communities. 1) Community Visioning Take a walk; however, pose specific questions, dynamic relations are formed using mindful questioning with a sustainable lens . Activities in the module below are a few examples: How is everything interconnected? Should you care about others and/or your place? Are the current ‘relationships’ (between humans, between humans and the ‘environment’, etc.) ‘continue-able’? ie. able to persist? Are the ‘relationships’ fair? Can you change the ‘relationships’? **Simple & extremely productive activity that can be modified for any age Activity #3  Community Walk and Map page